The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . tand Exeter river< sustain a few iwhile the Merrimack, Taunton, andsome other riv of M ichusetts,use the seine chiefly. In both Massachusetts and Maine the dip-netprocess of catching is used verylargely. In Connecticut, Rhode 400 4LEWIVES. Island, and New Hampshire theseine also is used, while in each ofthe New England states where ale-wife fishing is carried on pound-nets, trap-nets, and weirs are em-ployed. Of all the rivers of New Englandthe one from which most alewivesare annually taken is the Damaris-cotta in
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . tand Exeter river< sustain a few iwhile the Merrimack, Taunton, andsome other riv of M ichusetts,use the seine chiefly. In both Massachusetts and Maine the dip-netprocess of catching is used verylargely. In Connecticut, Rhode 400 4LEWIVES. Island, and New Hampshire theseine also is used, while in each ofthe New England states where ale-wife fishing is carried on pound-nets, trap-nets, and weirs are em-ployed. Of all the rivers of New Englandthe one from which most alewivesare annually taken is the Damaris-cotta in Maine. From this smallriver nearly two and one half mil- the branch-herring in inland p or lakes connected with the warm shallows of these piare the Mecca of their summer pil-grimage. Hither they swarm in vastnumbers, remain a few weeks, de-posit the spawn and the milt, andthen go straggling back to the sea. It is observed that - fish alwaysreturn to leave their eggs upon theidentical spawning ground where I * V I P s | - Fail ^ \ f ? 1 - • - . —* -. ??-? - - A perpendicular fall of fifty or m <refeet. lions of fish have been secured in asingle season, weighing more thana million pounds (1,390,612 poundsin 1896), an amount larger than thatfrom an}- other stream of our entireAtlantic border, I believe, with theexception of the Potomac. The totalweight of alewives taken from NewHampshire rivers (say) in 1S96 was269,734 pounds. Unlike the cod, herring, and soforth, the alewife, although its habi-tat is the ocean, prefers to deposither eggs in fresh water: the glut-herring not far from tidal water : but they were themselves brought it is chiefly due to somefunctional disturbance of ovaries andspermaries that migratory fishes areled to seek a spawning place some-where every year, but by what unerr-ing sense they are enabled to return,season after season, to the samestream for that purpose on<able to conjt. cture. The dip-net method of catchingalewiv
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