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$250 per annum ; the Ingliam Island fishery $50 less ; the Browntown 

 and Skinner's Eddy fisheries about $150 per annum each. 



Jameson Harvey says: "The widow Stewart, at the Stewart fishery, 

 used often to take from $30 to $40 of a night for her share of the haul." 



The data bearing upon this point are decidedly unsatisfactory, as they 

 would only give to the forty fisheries an annual value of about $12,000, 

 a large amount for those days, yet one we believe to be too small ; the 

 next item, the " catch," should be taken with this one to form a basis 

 for calculation. 



CATCH. 



At the eight fisheries near Northumberland large numbers of shad 

 were taken ; three hundred was a common haul ; some hauls ran from 

 three to five thousand. The Rockafeller fishery just below Danville 

 (about the year 1S20), gave an annual yield of from three to four thou- 

 sand, worth from 12^ cents to 25 cents apiece. 



Mr. Fowler says that the fishery just above Berwick was^one of the 

 most productive; and that he has assisted there in catching ''thousands 

 upon thousands," but does not give the average annual yield ; he also 

 says, that at the Tuckahoe fishery " many thousands were caught night 

 and day in early spring "; and at the Webb and Boon fisheries the hauls 

 were immense ; at the latter they got so many at a haul that they 

 couldn't dispose of them, and they were actually hauled on Boon's farm 

 for manure. 



At Hunlock's fishery the annual catch must have been above ten 

 thousand. 



At the Dutch fishery in one night thirty-eight hundred were taken. 



At the Fish Island fishery, at a single haul, nearly ten thousand shad 

 were taken. 



Mr. Jenkins recollects of seeing a haul at Monocacy Island— just 

 before the dam was put in — of twenty-eight hundred. 



At Scovel's Island the catch was from twenty to sixty per night ; at 

 Falling Spring fifty to three hundred per night ; at Taylor's Island from 

 two hundred to four hundred per night. 



At Wyalusing the annual catch was between two and three thousand ; 

 and at Standing Stone between three and four thousand. 



The daily catch at the Terrytown fishery was about one hundred and 

 fifty. 



Major Fassett says that at the Sterling Island fishery "over two thou- 

 sand were caught in one day in five hauls." 



It is a plain deduction fr»m the above facts that the fisheries down 

 the river were much more valuable than those above. Above Monocacy 

 we hear of no catch over two thousand, while below that point they 

 were much larger, and while from three to four hundred dollars seems 

 to be the general annual value above, we find the fishery at Hunlock's, 

 12 miles below, was worth from a thousand to twelve hundred per annum. 



