The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-18
TRAPS FOR SALMON.
Taking the psnobseot Fish at Buck
perf-Eag 1t Us Zone.

About this time the Penobscot River is
yelling up one Of its most important
products and is sending to market its own
special private brand of food fish. which
goes ahead even Of the late Al Wards
entertainment enterprise and is "ekalied'
The genuine Pearooscot salmon is with
out a peer. The Canadian imitation is q
very gocd ore, and often. very often,
uasquerades as a ankee fish in the
markets, but the enearean salmon
Seetian lacks the ineness OF grain 8ua
tne exquisite flavor Of the Penobseot
product.
When you look al the great silver beau
pc pretty sure Of n Of TWO things.
They are PenobScot salmon or taey are
not. Don't try 10 impress upon any one
that you can tel the difference between
the fsh that comes from St. John and
The one that comes from B1cksDort on
lHe Penopseo1r BECAUSE unless you are
~ expert q experts. you can't DO it.
Here is a little pointer for yoh: Cam
adam FISH almost invariably are large
onsss from eighteen pounds and up. as the
smaILess are not shipped but Kept for
The Penobscot salmon IS usually first
IN the Boston market. and gilt-edge
prices rule until the. Canadian rival
comes and competition brings prices down
The first salmon taken from the
~PencbseoE River each season IS a very
valuable fish. netting It's owner at least
S,2 per pound. and the Croesus who
would dine Upon that fish must pay hand
soTne3y for the privilege. This price Is
good fer bur a few fish. and o drops
g seventy-fve, sixty and fifty cents.
From The latter figure the slide is dufck
TO twenty-five. twenty. eighteen ara
sometimes fifteen cents, according to the
Supply. These prices are for whole fish
&c wholesale. Twenty-Five cents is con-
s9sred srsmarkably low price for cuts,
! thirty-ave TO fifty cents being more COM
mon nggres. 81. Jphn salmon are retafle1
usually with the Penobscot, at the same
marketn1en. who buy the Canadian FISH
from i've to twenty cents lower than
those from Maine
The salmon fisherman has trials and
tribulations without number. The bulld-
Irg Of ms Weir in the early spring is
hard. cola work, often to be smashed
fiat BY the lee or the Ieeward drift Of
some bcwiidered or befogged coasfing
~speccner- Thens seals. dogfish. porpoise.
sturgeon or some other stray steritter's
gets mixed upswAth the netting. much
e rs detFhmept The seal is the particu-
lar batse OF the weir owners existence.
they sneak into the pound and catch Z
II salmon. SCOOP everything out of the
skin. and leave it floating like a Shelf
Of a sucked egg to encourage profanity.
IN places where seals are plenty a dory
with q stuffed dummy mar In the stern
Is anchored near the weir-not exactly
a Hseareerow hut q aseareseals This
rpse IS quite efeetual, as the seal lacks
the nerve and general up-to-dativeness
OF the crow. who, by the way, loafs
around the weir for luckless small fish
that get left high and dry on the foor
of the pound.
While the trap is built with Intentions
an the inns all kinds of fish come In
their season. Alewfves, founders. TOM
code. eel and an occasional shad or sea
bass help cut the seasons profits.
Twice a year the United States Cow
eminent Fish Commission buys fish for