356 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



In 1875 there were seine-fisheries at — 



Virginia : White Point ; Cay wood's or Foulk's Shore, fished by Joseph 

 Cay wood ; Windmill Point, fished by Conrad Faunce ; Tump's, by a man 

 from Baltimore; Gum Bar, fished by Jerry Bobbs; Arkendale, fished by 

 Joseph Besley ; Clifton, fished by Withers Waller & Montacure ; Free- 

 stone Point, fished by Jacob Faunce ; Deep Hole, fished by McCuing 

 & Ticer ; Sandy Point, fished by D. G. Henderson ; High Point, fished 

 by John Gibson heirs; Stony Point, fished by same; Ccate's Point, 

 fished by Tucker & Hall ; Cornfield or Barn Landing, fished by J. 

 Haiser; Gunzton Hall or Tick Landing, fished by Jackson Haiser; 

 Ferry Landing, (formerly owned by General Washington,) William 

 Knight ; Dangerfield Island, (a small seine ;) Jackson City, fished by 

 John Gibson heirs. Total, 18. 



Maryland : Maryland Point, fished by Price Green ; Budd's Ferry, 

 by Cunningham ; Stumpneck, by same ; Rum Point, small seine; Chap- 

 man's Point, John H. Chapman, esq.; Pamunkey Point, S. H. Barrow; 

 Government Landing, William H. Elliott; Green Ways, Moore, Smith 

 & Co.; Bryan's Point, Conrad Faunce ; Moxley's Point, J. H. Skidmore ; 

 Meadow Bars, a small seine; Tent Landing, James Guy; Sandy Bar, 

 Jerry Bobbs. Total, 13. 



District of Columbia: Berry's Landing, McKewen; Stick Landing, 

 Miller; Giesboro, Luckett. Total, 3. 



Of pound-nets there were : 



Nanjemoy Beach, 2 pound-nets, Bainer; season, two months in spring, 

 three months in fall : 4 pound-nets, Lomax; season, two months in spring, 

 three months in fall. 



Curriomen, Va., 2 pound-nets, Beed ; season, two months in spring, 

 three months iu fall. 



Freestone Point, Va., 2 pound-nets, Stewart; season, two months; 

 taken up before season was over. 



Georgetown Channel, 1 pound-net, Frost; season, two monthsin spring. 



Georgetown Channel, 1 pound-net, Jenkins ; season, two months in 

 spring. 



Total, 12. 



It is difficult to get at the number of drift-nets * and boats accurately. 

 Many of them fish regularly and continually, and many others are very 

 irregular and transient in their work, fishing when a little ready money 

 is needed, when a few fish are wanted for the table, or from caprice. 



On the 27th, between Washington and Pohick Bay, Mr. Goode 

 counted 33 boats fishing. As it was during a continual cold rain it did 

 not represent at all what would ordinarily have been engaged. 



The total of the shad-season fishing on the Potomac for 1875 is 33 

 seines, 12 pound-nets, and a large number of drift or gill nets not 

 counted. 



* Mr. O. N. Bryan, of Charles County, Maryland, estimates the number of gill-net 

 boats for the whole State of Maryland at 2,000.— (Marlboro Gazette, Port Tobacco, Md., 

 November, 1875.) 



