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Sec. 3. Any person using nets in that part of the Hudson Kiver within the juris- 
diction of this State, in fishing for other fish allowed to be taken therein by nets, 
shall upon catching any salmon immediately return and restore the same to the water, 
without injury. The foregoing provisions are not to apply to the operations of State 
or public hatcheries or to the artificial propagation of said fish by State or public 
authority. 
Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the foregoing provisions of this act shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in addition, shall be liable to a penalty of one 
hundred dollars or one day’s imprisonment for each dollar of fine ; any informer to 
receive one-half of said fine. Actions for any violation of this act may be brought 
before any justice of the peace in any county which borders on the river or water 
opposite where the offense was committed, without regard to channel boundaries. 
Sec. 5. All acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Being assured that the information was desired for the use of the U. 
S. Fish Commission, in order to judge of the expediency of continuing 
the planting of salmon fry in the Hudson River, many records of capt- 
ures were obtained, and they are all supposed to be authentic. The 
names of the fishermen who took them incidentally in their shad nets, 
in New York waters, are omitted. * 
Gravesend Bay. — The largest number of salmon taken by one man, 
which has come to my knowledge, is ten. These were captured in 
fyke nets set for shad in Gravesend Bay, which is a part of Lower New 
York Bay, between May 9 and 29. They averaged from 9 to 12 pounds 
each, the largest weighing 19 pounds. Eighteen more fish were taken 
in the same bay, making twenty-eight in all. Seven were caught by 
one person, four by another, three by a third, while Tour men took one 
fish each. 
New York Bay. — There were twenty fish taken in the bay, weights 
not given. The following men took them-: L. Kells, Greenville, N. J., 
3; H. Meserole, ditto, 4; J. Gelshion, ditto, 4; J. M. Minugh, Com- 
muuipaw, N. J., 2; J. Woods, ditto, 1; J. McLaughlin, Jersey City, N. 
J., 1; George Griffin, Pamrapo, N. J., 2; Van Buskirk & Titus, ditto, 
2 j Richard Cadmus, Bayonne, N. J., 1; total, 20. 
Princess Bay. — Three fish are recorded from this water : D. Finnegan, 
Morris & Brown, and W. M. Morris, all of Port Monmouth, N. J., each 
took one. 
New Jersey shore of the Hudson. — Five salmon were taken just above 
Weehawken by as many men or fishing partners, J. & J. Ludlow, S. & 
J. Ludlow, and R. Hu Bois, all of Weehawken; each took one salmon, as 
did also Henry Scott, of Pleasant Valley, N. J., and Barber & Wilson, 
of Alpine, N. J. 
Prom New York to Troy . — By favor of Mr. E. G. Blackford I obtained 
the addresses of the men who fish for shad in the Hudson, and was 
thereby enabled to go directly to the fishermen, which greatly simpli- 
fied the work in the different cities and villages by saving the time in 
making inquiries for them. Mr. Henry Burden, also one of the New 
York fishery commissioners, helped me to many facts concerning the 
