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The shad fisheries near Havre de Grace, Md., 1883. — On June 

 20, Frank L. Donncll}' proceeded to Havre de Grace, Md., to ascertain as 

 far as practicable the catch of the different seines operated in that neigh- 

 borhood, and also the statistics of the shipments of fish from that port, 

 both to Baltimore and to northern markets, the length of seines used at 

 the diflercut fisheries, &c. 



He visited the owners and persons in charge of the six principal fish- 

 eries in that vicinity, and from them obtained the facts compiled below: 



Table of Havre de Grace shad fisheries, 1883. 



Fishery. 



1. "Western float 



2. Eastern flo it 



3. Tho island fishery 



4. Float fishinfj 



5. Float Ashing 



6. Float fishing 



Total 



Number of 



shad 



taken. 



Kind of power used. 



Boat wing. 



7,800 Engine .. 



5,500 ...do 



8,000 do 



5, 500 ': 2 horses . . 

 13,367 i Engine.. 



6, 800 ! . . . do 



46, 967 



Land wing. 



3 horses. 



Do. 



Do. 

 2 horses. 

 Encino. 

 2 horses. 



6 engines; 15 horses 



Sales of fish. — He learned from the only wholesale shippers of fish 

 in Havre de Grace that their sales were almost exclusively in Philadel- 

 l)hia, and this season (1883) they had shipped to that city 16,500 shad, 

 which had been caught by gilling or drift-net fishermen. 



The Baltimore market is supplied by bay fishermen and "run-boats" 

 from the float and shore fisheries. It was impossible to get an accurate 

 statement of the shad shipped to Baltimore. 



It will be seen from the above that 46,967 shad were caught by the 

 six principal fisheries in the vicinity of Havre de Grace. Also 10,500 

 shad were caught by the gilling or drift-net fishermen on the Susque- 

 hanna, making a total of 62,967 shad. If statistics from all the floats 

 and shore-fisheries and drift-net fishermen on the Susquehanna River 

 and at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay could be gathered, Mr. Don- 

 nelly thinks it would show a total catch of 100,000 shad for the season. 



Washington, D. C, June 27, 1883. 



Shad hatching in Connecticut in 1884.— The catching of shad, 

 for the purpose of securing the spawn for artificial propagation on the 

 Housatonic River, closed about July 1. Mr. Fenton, who has had 

 charge of the hatching, gives some very interesting facts in regard to 

 it. The total number hatched out and deposited in the rivers will ex- 

 ceed 3,000,000, of which one-half have been emptied into the Connecti- 

 cut River, at Enfield Bridge, and the remainder into the Housatonic. 

 Mr. Fenton estimates the average number of eggs secured from each 

 fish at 30,000, although, at least in two cases, he has secured fish that had 



