| 1,104 | 12.13 |
1886 | Apr. 16 | Apr. 21 | June 2 | 100 | 1,631 | 16.31 |
1887 | Apr. 23 | May 8 | June 25 | 150 | 2.020 | 13.47 |
1888 | Apr. 15 | Apr. 29 | June 9 | 159 | 2,196 | 13.81 |
1889 | Apr. 2 | Apr. 21 | June 6 | 85 | 1,246 | 14.66 |
1890 | Apr. 7 | Apr. 20 | May 30 | 41 | 641 | 15.63 |
1891 | Apr. 2 | Apr. 28 | June 9 & 16| 117 | 1,199 | 10.25 |
1892 | do | Apr. 9 | June 5 | 65 | 989 | 15.22 |
1893 | Apr. 15 | Apr. 23 | June 10 | 102 | 1,384 | 13.57 |
1894 | Apr. 12 | Apr. 19 | June 1 & 3 | 88 | 1,160 | 13.19 |
1895 | Apr. 6 | Apr. 21 | June 3 | 75 | 1,191 | 15.88 |
1896 | Apr. 12 | Apr. 16 | June 6 | 192 | 2,524 | 13.15 |

Note.--The weirs are set one or two days after the ice moves
out. Occasionally they are put in place before the ice leaves.

Apparatus and methods of the fishery.

There is probably no other river in the United States in which a
fishery of such magnitude has undergone so few changes with respect
to methods, number of traps operated, and sites where nets are set,
as the Penobscot. This is chiefly owing (1) to the character of the
bottom, (2) to the fact that the fishing is a riparian privilege
enjoyed only by those who own land fronting on the water,
(3) to the circumstance that the fishing is almost entirely of a
semi-professional character, and has been taken up by generation after
generation as a part of the regular duties connected with the small
farms, and (4) to the small number of food-fishes occurring in the
river, and the preponderating importance of two of them--the salmon
and the alewife--for which the nets are exclusively set.

Salmon Net Types

Salmon weir, Penobscot. Leader of stakes interwoven with
brush, 175 yards long. "Great pond" brush, 42 feet long.
"Middle pond" and "back pond," netting with board floor,
each 10 feet long. Outer entrance, 16 feet wide; middle,
2 feet; inner, 1 foot. Value, $75.

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