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BULLETIN OE THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Ill December, 1891, a salmon weighing 28 pounds was caught on a cod trawl line 
set near Halfway Rock, off Salem Harbor, Mass.; Mr. William Dennett, of Gloucester, 
who secured the fish, reports that he sold it for $4G. Mr. Samuel Wiley, of Gloucester, 
in September, 1893, caught a salmon at sea off Gloucester on a trawl line fished for 
hake. These are the only instances that have been reported of the capture of salmon 
on a hook in the vicinity of Gloucester. As the trawl lines in question were set on 
the bottom at a depth of 20 or 25 fathoms, the fact that these two hsh at least were 
swimming on the bottom may be considered established. 
Relatively large numbers of salmon have recently been taken in the pouud nets of 
Cape Cod Bay. Capt. Atkins Hughes, of ISTorth Truro, one of the best-informed and 
m(tst reliable fishermen in the region, informs us that at Rorth Truro, the principal 
pound-net center in the bay, about 70 large salmon have been annually caught for two 
orthree years. The fish are taken throughout the entire pound-net season, but are most 
common in the early part of the fishing year (May and June). Some fish weighing 25 
to 28 pounds have recently been caught. For two or three years he has noticed in 
the pound nets in October large numbers of young salmon, about 6 inches long; each 
net probably takes one or two barrels of these annually; he had never observed these 
small fish before in his long fishing career in that region. In 1893, however, rather 
less than the usual number of large salmon were observed, and very few of the small 
fish mentioned were taken. 
Mr. Viiial N. Edwards, of the Fish Commission station at Woods Holl, Mass., states 
that in September, 1892, when he visited the Cape Cod region, a great many salmon 
were being taken in the pound nets. They weighed 1 or 5 pounds apiece. At one 
pound-net fishery in Provincetown he saw enough salmon to fill two sugar barrels. 
Concerning the occurrence of salmon in the Ca^ie Cod region, Mr. Cheney, in 
the article previously mentioned, quotes Hon. Eugene G. Blackford, of Hew York, as 
follows : 
We get every winter a few fish from the Atlantic coast that are evidently part of the schools of 
fish that rnn np into the Kennebec, Penobscot, and other eastern rivers. During November and 
December we had about 15 to 20 fish, weighing from 13 to 24 pounds each, that were caught in the 
mackerel nets in the vicinity of Provincetown and North Truro, Mass. These nets are set out 
from tlie Cape in very deep water. During the past two or three weeks we have received several 
specimens of very handsome salmon from Maine, where they have been caught by the smelt fishermen 
in their nets when they have been fishing for smelt. I think these catches of salmon go very far to 
prove that the schools of fish are not very far off from our shores during the time that they are not 
found in the rivers, and that both shad and salmon, when they leave our rivers, do not go either east 
or south, hut are within 100 miles or so of the rivers where they were spawned. The fish are remark- 
able in being in splendid condition and perfect in form and axipearance. 
Ml'. Clieney tbinks the salmon taken off Cape Cod belong in either the Merrimac 
River or the Penobscot River; and, as in the year in question fish were being caught 
at the month of the Penobscot at the same time they were being taken at Cape Cod, 
he thinks it xirobable that the fish in the latter region were from the Merrimac. 
In the pouud-iiet fishery of the northern coast of Hew Jersey the recent capture of 
salmon has been a subject of much interest to the local fishermen and of considerable 
importance to fish-ciilturists and naturalists. 
For a number of years a few salmon have, from time to time, been taken in Saudy 
Hook Bay, but within the past two or three years there has been an increase in 
the number caught. At Belford, the principal fishing center in the bay, Mr. M. C. 
Lohsen states that some have been taken weighing from 12 to 40 pounds, and that in 
