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shoot or spear them, but he does not mean that they shall. The water is low, and the 
fish can not pass the dam. He says they are all big fish. There is a necessity for fish- 
ways in order to let the fish get to the breeding grounds, and the dam should be 
watched in order to keep the fish from being destroyed. The people should be in- 
structed to let the breeding fish alone in order that they may be benefitted hereafter. 
A. N. Cheney. 
There was a rumor that several salmon had been dynamited at Me- 
ehanicsville, and the following letters relate to this : 
Troy Club, August 18, 1888. 
Mr. Fred Mather : 
Dear Sir : On my return home from Rochester I found a letter from Mr. A. N. 
Cheney giving an account of the dynamite outrage at Mechanicsville, and stating that 
he had written the Lake George game constable to go over there and investigate. I 
visited Mechanicsville a few days ago, with the builder of the Troy fishway, to look at 
the dam at that place. I saw Mr. A. C. Johnson, the person who reported about the 
dynamite to Mr. Cheney, and he said that no game constable had been there and that 
it was now too late to fasten the crime on any one from the evidence on hand, although 
suspicion pointed strongly to two prominent citizens of the village. He said that 
three salmon, weighing from 8^ to 12£ pounds, were found dead floating about the 
day after the dynamite was used. 
Mr. Johnson also reported that a salmon was taken there recently on a trolling- 
spoon. I never heard of such a case, and can hardly believe it. Will investigate 
further and try and find out about it. 
Henry Burden. 
Troy, N. Y., November 12, 1888. 
Mr. Fred Mather : 
The name of the man who took a salmon with a trolling-spoon is John Conners. He 
is employed in the Fitchburg car-shops at Mechanicsville. 
Henry Burden. 
Newburgh Bay . — A newspaper slip, sent me by a correspondent, said 
that Mr. Eugene B. O’Sullivan, who iives at Fishkill Landing, caught 
a salmon weighing 9f pounds with & fly, and sold it to Thomas Talbot, 
a fish dealer at the latter place. This was important if true, and in 
conversation with State Game Protector Willett Kidd, I told him of it. 
Mr. Kidd kindly looked the matter up, and found that the fish was taken 
in a shad net. 
Recapitulation of captures. 
Gravesend Bay 28 
New York Bay „ 20 
Prince’s Bay 3 
New Jersey shore 5 
Hudson City 8 
Stockport 4 
New Baltimore 3 
Highland Falls 1 
Mulls’ Fishery . _ .... 2 
Catskill Point 1 
Cornwall 1 
Barrytown 2 
Kingston Point 2 
North Staatsburgh 2 
Hyde Park 1 
Elmore’s Dock 2 
Newburgh I 
Newburgh Bay 1 
Verplank’s 3 
Communipaw to Yonkers 14 
Troy, below the dam 26. 
Mechanicsville 4 
Total known , 134, 
