416 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
catch about and above Troy. Mr. Burden has taken much interest in 
this matter, and was instrumental in getting a McDonald fishway put 
in the Troy dam by the State mainly for the passage of salmon, which 
had been seen jumping at the dam and had been netted below it in 
former years. Mr. Matthew Kennedy, of the city of Hudson, and one 
of the fish and game protectors of the State, as well as a shad fisher- 
man owning several nets and employing a number of men in season, 
gave me valuable assistance in reporting such salmon captures as had 
come to his knowledge. 
Matthew Kennedy says that eight salmon were taken at Hudson by 
two parties, and the fish were returned to the water alive. He saw the 
fish, and his men caught some of them. His nets were old and tender 
and the salmon made holes in them, but if the nets had been stronger 
a great many more would have been taken. If the striped bass were as 
plenty about Hudson as they were a dozen years ago that fish would 
have been credited with making the holes, but the bass are scarce now, 
and he believes that salmon made them, for they were two small to 
have been made by sturgeon. Four of these fish were taken on one day 
in rough weather, and Mr. Kennedy thinks it worthy of note that all 
the others were taken when the water was rough. They were caught 
between the 1st and 14th of June. The water in the river was very high 
up to the middle of May and but little shad fishing was done until after 
that date. 
Stockport .- — At Stockport four fish were taken, the weights of the same 
not being reported^ and at Kew Baltimore three fish weighing 40 pounds, 
or an average of over 13 pounds each. At this point the channel is 
shallow and the nets are short, and salmon can escape them better than 
in most places. 
At the folio wing places I learned of fish being taken. The towns are 
given as found on my note-book, without regard to their geographical 
sequence. In some cases it was not possible to learn the names of the 
captors, nor the weights of the fish. Highland Falls, one ; Mull’s Fish- 
ery, seine, two, 11, 11 J pounds ; Oatskill Point, seine, one, 15 pounds ; 
Cornwall, one, 9 pounds ; Barrytown, drift net, two, 10 j, 13 pounds 
(several persons intimated that more were taken at this place but were 
cautious about giving information for fear of being called on as wit- 
nesses) ; Kingston Point, drift net, two, 10, 8 pounds ; Korth Staats- 
burgh, two, 10, 12 pounds ; Hyde Park, drift net, one ; Elmore’s Dock, 
drift net, two, 10, 18 pounds; Kewburgh, one ; Verplank’s (Stony Point), 
three, 12|, 11^, 15J pounds. 
Troy . — As before stated, Mr. Henry Burden kindly volunteered to 
get the needed information at this place, and his knowledge of men and 
locality enabled him to work the field better than a stranger could. I 
went out with him to a fisherman’s floating house one day and found 
that the man in charge was very suspicious, and if he or his friends had 
