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35 to 50 pounds is considered a very large fish of this kind. Some time 
ago there was a law passed to protect this fish during its spawning 
season, but the law was soon repealed. 
Jack salmon and black bass in the Ohio at Wheeling. — Mr. 
Alex. Q. Eoff, in a letter from Wheeling, W.Ya., dated December 29, 1885, 
said : “ During September and October of 1885 there was a much larger 
run of jack salmon ( Stizostedium vitreum) and green salmon* (Stizoste- 
dium salmoneum) here than I ever before knew. Probably as many as 
3,500 or 4,000 were taken by hook and line in the immediate vicinity of 
Wheeling. There seemed to be no particular place for them to gather, 
as in former years, but wherever a bait was thrown a fish was almost 
sure to be there. They did not exceed 10 inches in length. The jack 
salmon were the most numerous, in proportion of about 8 to 3. I have 
known of large numbers of these fish being caught in seines at the 
mouth of the Wheeling Creek during the spring season, but never before 
in the fall. Yery few of the black bass of our river have been taken 
this season. I have seen only three that would weigh from 2£ to 3 
pounds, the greater number being from 6 to 10 ounces in weight.” 
Shad plentiful in California.— Shad are now so plentiful that 
they bring only 5 cents per pound in the season, and are found in our 
bay all the year round. The run this year will be very large, and al- 
ready the markets are full of them, and fine shad from 4 to 6 pounds 
are selling from 40 to 50 cents each. [Charles Kaeding, San Francisco, 
Cal., March 2, 1887.] 
Shad from Cedar Keys. — In April, 1885, Mr. W. S. Bunting, of 
Cedar Keys, Fla., sent for identification a fish 15 inches long, which 
proved to be Glupea sapidissima . Several similar specimens have been 
obtained from Cedar Keys in previous years. 
Shad in 1885. — The present season (1885) has been a wonderfully 
productive one in North Carolina, and it is a number of years since 
shad have been so cheap at this season of the year as they are at the 
present time. To-day large roe shad have sold at 25 cents each by 
the hundred, and buck shad at 15 cents each ; and from telegrams re- 
ceived to-day there will be a large arrival to-morrow, so that these low 
prices will remain and possibly even go lower. 
The first North Eiver shad was brought to me on Saturday, April 4, 
and to-day (April 7) a few more have come in. From points farther 
south, earlier in the season, I have noticed that there has been an in- 
creased quantity sent to this market from Florida and Georgia. [E. G. 
Blackford, Fulton Market, New York.] 
*Mr. H. B. Miller, writing from Wheeling, W. Va., March 25, 1887, says: The fish 
which Mr. Eoff calls ‘ 4 green salmon” is the white salmon or blue pike ( S . salmoneum ). 
This and the gray pike or sauger ( S . canadense ) are called locally “ green” or “ white 
salmon” and “jack fish.” They have been getting scarce until year before last, when 
they were found in largely increased numbers, owing, I think, to the Ohio State com- 
mission stocking tributaries of the Ohio River with young of these varieties from their 
lake hatcheries. 
