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men who engage in the fisheries, nine of them depending wholly on fishing for a livelihood, while 

 the others attend to their farms in the summer season and are employed in fishing in winter, when 

 otherwise they would be idle most of the time. In the fishery of this town are employed forty 

 boats, worth $200; three hundred gill-nets, worth $1,500; one drag-seine, valued at $175; two 

 fyke-nets, worth $90; seven hundred and fifty eel-pots, valued at $450. 



Eel fishing and turtle and terrapin hunting are prosecuted in this place to a much greater 

 extent than in any other of the towns of Southern Delaware ; in fact these are two of the principal 

 fisheries of the town. Mr. E. M. Atkins, the postmaster at Williamsville, and one of the principal 

 dealers in fishery products, says that 70,000 pounds of eels and 5,000 pounds of turtle were taken 

 by the fishermen iu 1880. The total products of the fisheries for that year were 271,100 pounds of 

 anadroinous and sea fish ; 12,000 pounds of fresh- water fish; 5,000 pounds of turtle; 2,19G terrapin; 

 and 480 crabs. 



