160 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Detailed statement of the number of persons , the quantity of apparatus , and the amount of 
capital employed in the fisheries of the Province of British Columbia , etc . — Continued. 
QUANTITIES AND VALUES OF PRODUCTS — Continued. 
Kinds specified. 
Quantities. 
Prices. 
Values. 
(c) Estimate of products consumed locally: 
Fish consumed in the province. . . .. 
$100, 000, 00 
2, 732, 50Q. 00 
190, 000. 00 
260, 000. 00 
75, 000. 00 
Fish and oil consumed by Indians: 
Salmon 
Halibut 
Sturgeon and other fish 
Fish oil 
Total 
3, 357, 500. 00 
Grand total, approximate yield 
5, 232, 399. 08 
New Westminster, B. C., March 12, 1888. 
45.— NOTE® ©N THE FISHERIES OF BUZZARD’S K1¥AN® VICINITY. 
Bf WILLARD ME, IIS. 
The unusual amount of fresh water, caused by the heavy rains on the 
south coast of Massachusetts this spring, apparently attracted the 
alewives into fhe mouths of the rivers in great numbers. At the first 
dam on the Mattapoisett River 1,250 hauls were made, this being the 
best record for one season in twenty years. Traps along shore have 
also made large hauls. 
The coldness of the water inshore, as well as the quantity of fresh 
w T ater from the rivers, probably kept the scup away from the shore, as 
the traps, up to June 1, made light hauls. Scup appeared in such num- 
bers, Jane 4, off Newport, R. I., and at the mouth of the Sakonnet River, 
as to bring down the price so that it hardly paid to ship them to New 
York. April 19, 395 pounds of tautog (averaging 3 pounds each in 
weight) were taken with a seine from a salt-water pond at the east end 
of Martha’s Vineyard Island, where they probably had been all winter, 
as fishermen frequently caught them when spearing eels through the 
ice. At Menemsha Pond, at the west end of the island, tautog have 
been known to float ashore by the hundred during winters when anchor 
frost has occurred. More striped bass have been taken this spring 
than for several years. The best catch made by one trap was 70 in two 
mornings (about May 20), the weight of the fish ranging from 1 J pounds 
to 5 pounds. One salmon weighing 2 pounds was caught at Sconticut 
Neck. 
Butterfish are very plentiful, a trap near Round Hill taking 15 bar- 
rels one night. Kingfish are more numerous than for several years ; 
but none have been taken weighing over 3 pounds, the average weight 
being 1J pounds. Thus far the indications are that there will be a con- 
siderable increase of migratory food -fish on our coast this season over 
the preceding three or four years. 
New Bedford, Mas's., June 6, 1888. 
