280 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 

 Shtid and herring nets in Chesapeake />'«.</. 1883. 



Xame of shore. 



WEST SHORE OF CHESAPEAKE BAT. 



South of Smith's Point 



Taskmaster's Creek 



Danimeron's Marsh 



Between North Point and Windmill Point. 



Mouth of Rappahannock River 



Inside of Rappahannock Spit 



South side of Rappahannock Entrance. 

 Hill's Bay, mouth of Piancatank River . 



South Shore 



Gwynn's Island 



Mohjack Bay 



Wolf-Trap Spit 



Dias Creek Bar 



York Spit 



York Spit and Too's Point. 



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B 



Season's catch. 



Cape Charles. 

 Picket's Hole. 



Total. 



BAST SHORE OF CHESAPEAKE BAY. 



(a) Catch large. 



(6) Three of the thirty-eight pound-nets at Taskmaster's Creek measured 100 fathoms each. Their 

 catch consisted of 3,500 shad and 95,000 herring; that for twenty-three was of fair size, and that for 

 the other twelve was very slight. 



(c) Catch fair. 



(d) The catch for fourteen of the sixteen pound-nets at Gwynn's Island consisted of 21,000 shad and 

 950.000 herring ; that for the other two is not known. 



(e) Pour of the twenty-one pound-nets at Mobjack Bay contained one pocket, fourteen contained two 

 pockets, and three contained three pockets. The catch for one pound-net was fair, that for three was 

 light, and that for the remainder was not reported. 



(/) The best season ever known, the nets averaging from 10,0C0 to 25,000 shad each, together with 

 great quantities of herring of which no record was kept. The catch was one-third larger than that of 

 last year, and greatly exceeded any catch made during the previous eight years. 



(g) Two of the six pound-nets at Cape Charles measured 100 fathoms each. Their catch consisted of 

 1,000 shad and 10,000 herring; that for the others was fair, and better than last year. 



(h) Catch fair and better than last year. 



4:{.-EARL¥ CATCH OF MACKEREL.. 



By BARMET PHILLIPS. 



[From letter to S. F. Baird.] 



Mackerel in market today caught on Thursday [March 29] oft* Hat- 

 teras. In 1882 they were in New York markets on the 1st of April; in 

 1881 on the 23d of March. 



Times Office, Xew York, March 31, 1883. 



