254 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Captain Jones, schooner Alice 8. Hatches, saw large bodies off Abse- 
con. from 5 to 20 miles off-shore. 
May 25. Capt. Henry 0. Fish says there seems to be a largo but 
scattered body of menhaden off Montauk. He thinks there is a larger 
body yet to come. 
May 25. Mackerel fishermen report large bodies of menhaden 40 
miles southeast from Montauk. They show in Long Island Sound 
about the middle of June, and range eastward to Nantucket and Buz- 
zard’s Bay. 
May 29. Menhaden steamers belonging in the vicinity of the eastern 
end of Long Island are engaged in fishing in its waters. 
CLUPEA YEENALIS AND ^ESTIVALIS. 
As early as April 23 Capt. Soh Rowe seined some alewives about 30 
miles off Hog Island. In company with them, at the surface, he caught 
25 or 30 barrels of sea robins (Prionotus sp.), young dogfish ( Squalus 
acanthias ), a few young goose-fish (Lophius piscatorius), and three tinker 
mackerel. 
May 22 the schooner Grampus took in gill-nets four specimens of 
Clupea vernalis , one female and three males. The female was about 10 
inches long and larger than any of the males. The ovaries and sperm- 
aries were very small, showing that these are probably young fish and 
not yet ready to leave the sea, although full grown, or nearly so. The 
locality is about north latitude 39° 40', west longitude 73° 38 y . 
On the night of May 22 the schooner Porter Roberts set in about north 
latitude 40°, west longitude 73° 28', and got alewives. 
May 26. Captain Decker, schooner Robert J. Edwards , went out from 
Sandy Hook in company with 20 fishermen. He sailed east £ south from. 
Sandy Hook. At a distance of 50 miles he saw large bodies of ale- 
wives. He caught about a bushel of them. In dressing them no eggs 
or milt were noticed, from which it is probable that these were young 
fish. They were going northward about 7 miles per hour. 
May 28. The schooner Mary H. Thomas caught alewives with mack- 
erel, 18 miles southeast from Block Island ; she took 25 barrels at one 
set and 100 barrels at another time. 
May 30. The schooner Grampus saw numerous schools of alewives 
mixed with mackerel 17 miles southeast J south from Brenton’s Reef 
light-ship, or north latitude 41° 12', west longitude 71° 09'. The fish 
were showing well in the afternoon. 
RAIA L^SVIS. 
April 27. Specimens were caught on hand-lines in north latitude 37<* 
43', west longitude 74° 15', 36 fathoms. 
May 7. Two females were caught on hand-lines from the Grampus , 
menhaden for bait, in about north latitude 39° 20', west longitude 73° 
