E-text prepared by Ronald Calvin Huber
while serving as Penobscot Bay Watch, Rockland, Maine,
with technical assistance from Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.
New England Salmon Hatcheries
and Salmon Fisheries
in the Late 19th Century
A Collection of Articles from
the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission
CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
Some Results of the Artificial Propagation of Maine and CaliforniaSalmon in New England and Canada, Recorded in the Years 1879 and 1880
Compiled By The United States Fish Commissioner
Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission,Vol. 1, Page 270, 1881
New Bedford, Mass May 20, 1879.
Prof. S. F. Baird:
Sir: I have justbeen in the fish market and a crew were bringing intheir fish from one of the "traps." A noticeable and peculiar featureof the fishery this year is the great numbers of young salmon caught,especially at the Vineyard, although some few are caught daily atSconticut Neck (mouth of our river). There are apparently two differentages of them. Mostly about 2 pounds in weight (about as long as a largemackerel) and about one-half as many weighing from 6 to 8 pounds;occasionally one larger. One last week weighed 33 pounds and one 18pounds. The fishermen think they are the young of those with which someof our rivers have been stocked, as nothing of the kind has occurred inpast years at all like this.<