BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 247 
May 4. About this date the schooner Edith Rowe reports having taken 
200 barrels of small mackerel 18 or 20 miles southeast from Barnegat. 
May 5. The schooner Carrie Parsons saw a large body of fish at night 
in north latitude 37° 08'. 
May 7. The schooner Carrie Parsons saw plenty of fish at night in 
north latitude 37° 30', west longitude 74° 39' ; 28 fathoms. 
May 8. Between 8 and 9 p. m. we saw from the Grampus five schools 
of fish, one of them very large ; north latitude 38° 03', west longitude 
740 18'. 
May 8. The schooner Ralph Hodgdon , of Gloucester, saw several 
schools in the morning and at night in north latitude 37° 48', west lon- 
gitude 740 15<. 
May 9. Captain Smith caught 104 barrels salt and some fresh in 
north latitude 37° 50', west longitude 74° 34'. His was the northwest 
vessel of the fleet and alone, the fleet of thirty sail being barely visible 
to the southeast. 
May 9. The schooner Margaret S. Smith reports a large body of mack- 
erel extending from north latitude 37° 46', west longitude 74° 15' to 
Cape Henry. They were showing up well day and night for a week 
except May 8. 
The catch of eight vessels in a fleet of twenty-one or twenty -two was 
all made between latitude 37° 20' and 37° 40' 5 longitude 74° 28' and 
740 50 '. 
May 9. The schooner Clara S. Cameron reported the capture of 50 
barrels of large fish, not mixed with small ones. At night Captain 
Carroll took about 12 barrels of mixed fish, two-thirds of them between 
11 and 12 inches long, the rest tinkers. Capt. Sol Jacobs also made a 
small haul of the same kind. At this time the water was full of u slicks.” 
The fish were very wild, and most of the sets failed. 
May 10. Captain Thomas, schooner Maud $, took 47 wash-barrels in 
north latitude 37° 07', west longitude 74° 40'; 35 fathoms. 
May 10. The gill-nets of the Grampus , in north latitude 38° 07', west 
longitude 74° 21', caught twenty-one mackerel and on§ mackerel shark. 
The mackerel ranged in length from 11 to 12f inches. Most of them were 
alive, and one put in the well recovered fully. All were meshed in the 
south side of the nets, seven in the lower part of the mackerel-net, and 
fourteen well up in the surface herring-net. The depth of the school 
may therefore have been 5 fathoms or more. Hone of the fish were 
nearer than 3 feet from the top of the net. 
On this night Capt. Sol. Jacobs took a small school of 13 to 15 inch 
fish. He saw a number of small schools, but no large ones. 
May 11. Captain Williams reported having seen several schools at 
night about 35 miles north-northeast of latitude 38° 34', longitude 
74o 15'. 
May 11. Captain Carroll, schooner Warren Crosby, caught 75 bar- 
