BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 279 

 Shad and herring nets in the Potomac Elver, 1883. 



Name of shore. 



POTOMAC KlVER. 



Gut Landing 



Gunnison Cove 



Indian Head 



Occoquan Flats 



Deep Point 



Stump Neck 



Goose Bay 



Liverpool Point and Sandy Point 



Nanjemoy Reach 



Upper Cedar Point 



Port Tobacco Flat 



Mathias Point 



Pope's Creek 



Mouth ot'Port Tobacco Creek 



Prospect Hill 



Clifton 



Persimmon Point 



Lower Cedar Point 



Mouth of Machodic Creek 



Picawaxen Creek 



Machodic Flats 



Cedar Island 



Rozier's Creek 



Bluff Point 



Hollister's 



White Point 



Mattox's Creek 



Bridge's Creek 



Stratford Mills 



Curioman.... 



Bagged Point 



Moulhof Neal's Creek 



Henry Creek 



Saint" George Island Bar 



Cornfield Harbor 



Sandy Point, mouth of Ycomico River . . . 

 Lynch's Point, mouth of Ycomico River. 



Hog Island, mouth of Coan River 



•Great Keck, Coan River 



Mouth of Cubitt's Creek 



,3 



a 



4 

 6 

 6 

 2 



2 



2 

 2 



3 

 4 

 4 

 8 

 2 

 12 

 2 



a 3 



,3=3 



a 



600 

 (a) 

 600 

 400 

 200 



<s 

 M 



o 

 o 



a 

 3 



Season's catch. 



300 



400 

 600 



1, 025 

 300 



1,450 

 300 

 300 

 200 

 300 

 300 

 («) 

 (/) 

 200 

 700 



1,400 

 500 



:oo 



5C3 



600 

 200 

 75 

 300 

 500 

 300 

 100 



(e) 



C3 



300 



300 



(&) 



(c) 

 (b) 

 (d) 



500 

 (e) 

 (b) 



3,000 

 (9) 



(h) 



,100 



200 



100 



(i) 



U) 



2, 500 



1,500 



bfj 



a 





15, 000 



20, 000 



(b) 



(c) 

 (6) 

 (d) 



100, 000 

 (e) 

 (6) 



175, 000 



(g) 



(i) 



35, 000 

 20, 000 



(a) Two of the six pound-nets at Gunuison Cove measured 100 fathoms apiece. 

 (6) Catch small. 



(c) The catch for three of the eight pound-nets at Port Tobacco consisted of 500 shad and 100,000 

 herring ; that for the rest is not reported. 



(d) The catch for four of the twelve pound -nets at Pope's Creek consisted of 400 shad and 15,000 her- 

 ring; that for five of the remainder is said to have been small, and nothing has been ascertained 

 regarding that for the other three. 



(e) Two of the four pound-neta at Machodic Creek measured 100 fathoms each and contained one 

 pocket apiece. Their catch consisted of 500 shad and 20,000 herring; that for the others is not 

 reported. 



(/) One of the three pound-nets at Picawaxen Creek was 125 fathoms long. 



(g) Catch fair. 



(h) Two of the three pound-nets at Lynch's Point measured 100 fathoms each. 



(£) The catch for one of the three pound-nets at Lynch's Point consisted of 4C0 shad and a very few 

 herring; that of one is reported small, and that of the third is unknown. 



( j) The catch of nine of the eleven pound -nets at Hog Island consisted of 8,000 shad and 90,000 her- 

 ring ; that of the other two was slight. 



