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the spring of 1893 more tliaii the usual nuinber were caugiit in tlie pound nets. Mr. 
Harry White, of the same place, never took salmon in pound nets prior to 1891; he 
secured 1 that year and 2 in 1892, but failed to get any in 1893. Other hshermen, 
however, obtained one or two fish. The average weight of the salmon taken here is 
12 to 15 pounds; the largest caught by Mr. White weighed 17^ pounds. Small ones, 
weighing half a pound each, are sometimes observed. It is only during the month 
of May that salmon are noticed on this shore. One weighing 10 pounds, taken in a 
pound net at tliis place in 1891, sold for $11; the following year two, with a combined 
weight of 23 imunds, sold for $15.98. 
In the vicinity of Long Braueh, we are informed of the recent capture of a num- 
ber of salmon in the irouud nets set directly in the ocean. Mr, Ed. Hennessey, of 
North Long Braueh, reports that in 1892 two salmon and in 1893 one salmon were 
taken in his iKurnd; they weighed from 10 to 15 iioiinds each. In April, 1891, Messrs. 
Gaskins and Hennessey, of the same place, secured a salmon in their pound; this was 
the only one they ever took. Messrs. W. T. Van Dyke & Co., pound-net fishermen 
of Long Branch, communicate the following instances of the taking of salmon by 
them in 1893: May 10, 1 salmon weighing 91 pounds; May 11, 1 salmon weighing 13.1 
pounds; May 17, 1 salmon, and May 18, 1 salmon, weight not given. Messrs, West 
and Jeffrey, pound- net fishermen at Long Branch, report that in 1892 they caught 
2 sm ill salmon. In 1893, 3 fish were taken, as follows: May 10, a salmon weighing 19 
pounds; May 18, 1 weighing 12 pounds; May 20, 1 weighing 10 pounds. IMr. Henry 
F. Harvey, who fishes a pound net at Mantoloking, N, J., about 35 miles south of Sandy 
Hook, communicates the information that in May, 1893, 2 salmon weighing 10 or 12 
pounds each were taken at that place. None had ever before been caught there. 
One of the most interesting facts at hand concerning the oceanic occurrence of 
the salmon has been noted in a previous paper in this Bulletin,* but may be again 
referred to in order to make the xitesent article more complete. Instances of the 
capture or observation of salmon far out at sea or even at relatively short distances 
from land are very rare and are entitled to publication whenever noted. About April 
10, 1893, the mackerel schooner Ethel B. Jacobs^ of Gloucester, Mass., was cruising 
for mackerel off the coast of Delaware. When in latitude 38°, at a point about 50 
miles ESE. of Fenwick Island light-ship, the vessel fell in at night with a large body 
of mackerel, and the seine was thrown round a i>art of the school. Among the mack- 
erel taken was an Atlantic salmon weighing 10 iiounds, Avhich Capt, Solomon Jacobs, 
who was in command of the schooner, sent home to Gloucester. Capt. Jacobs informs 
us that the fish was fat and in fine condition. Some of the crew told the captain that 
there was another salmon in the seine, but it escaped over the cork line as the seine 
was being “dried in.” The light-ship mentioned is about 10 miles off the coast, so the 
place where these salmon were taken was about (10 miles from the nearest land. 
The foregoing is the only instam-e known to this Ooinmission of the capture of 
salmon so far at sea on the coast of the United States or of the taking of salmon in a 
purse seine Avith mackerel under any circumstances. Capt. S. J. Martin, the veteran 
fisherman of Gloucester, Mass., has never known of another such occurrence, and a 
special inrpriry conducted by him among the mackerel fishermen of that port failed to 
disclose the knowledge among them of a similar case. 
*Exteusioii of the Recorded Range of Certain Marine and Fresh-water Fishes of the Atlantic 
Coast of the United States. 
