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Little Pond. Little Pond, situated to the east of Falmouth 

 Heights, is connected with the ocean by a boarded outlet 

 through which the fish pass into the pond. 



Wing's Pond. A small stream rises in Wing's Pond, or 

 Herring Pond, at North Falmouth, and flows about 1 mile to 

 Buzzard's Bay. The catching place, situated halfway down 

 the stream, consists of a board passageway 1 foot wide. The 

 fishery, of little value, is public, and a few alewives are taken 

 by local residents. 



RED BROOK (CATAUMET). 



Red Brook has its source in a swamp in Cataumet, and its 

 outlet in Red Brook Harbor. Its upper waters are used for 

 flooding cranberry bogs, and it has one dam, equipped with 

 a new concrete fishway, up which alewives experience little 

 difficulty in passing. The fishery was established in 1900 by 

 the town of Bourne, and the privilege has sold for from $6 

 to $41. The average annual catch from 1909 to 1911 ranged 

 from 50 to 60 barrels. Though possessing limited spawning 

 grounds, with proper care this fishery may be made even more 

 productive than it is at present. 



MONUMENT RIVER. 



Monument River, or Herring River, Bourne, has been 

 absorbed by the Cape Cod Canal. The stream, which has its 

 origin in Little and Great Herring ponds, now is accessible to 

 alewives from both Buzzard's Bay and Cape Cod Bay. 



Between Little Herring and Great Herring ponds, beautiful 

 and attractive spawning grounds, the stream passes through 

 a region of cranberry bogs and over a concrete dam with a 

 small fishway. Just below Great Herring Pond is situated the 

 catching house. At Bournedale are two small artificial ponds. 

 The sluiceway of the lower dam is now open and the pond 

 drained, while the upper is provided with a fishway. At the 

 outlet of the stream into the canal is a cement fishway, but the 

 incline is so steep and the whirl of water so great that the ale- 

 wives, except at high tide, find difficulty in ascending. In 

 places the steep slope of the stream makes difficult the ascent, 



