lb. of shad. Pound nets (figs. 19 and ZO) caught 

 19,588 lb., anchor and stake gill nets 16,185 

 lb., and haul seines 2,000 lb. 



The locations of pound nets and the catches 

 in this area were: Chesapeake Bay proper, 14 

 nets, 5,200 lb.; Pocomoke Sound, 17 nets, 

 4,908 lb.; Honga River, 6 nets, 1,675 lb.; and 

 Tangier Sound, 8 nets, 7,805 lb. The pound nets 

 were of the "single heart" type, with 2 l/2- to 

 3 l/2-in. mesh and leads 100 to 300 yd. long. 



Stake gill nets were fished in Pocomoke 

 Sound and Tangier Sound, and anchor gill nets 

 were operated along the Eastern Shore in the 

 Bay proper. The length of net and catch by 

 area were as follows: Pocomoke Sound, 3,602 

 yd., 14,789 1b.; Tangier Sound, 600 yd., 613 lb.; 

 and the Bay proper, 2,100 yd., 783 lb. Nets 

 ranged from 100 to 300 yd. long and 35 to 45 

 meshes deep and had 4- to 5 l/2-in. mesh. 

 Fourteen haul seines took 2,000 lb. of shad in 

 the Bay proper incidental to the catch of other 

 species. 



Chesapeake Bay, Lower Central. --Lower 

 Central Chesapeake Bay from Cove Point to 

 Sandy Point, including Eastern Bay, produced 

 112,591 lb. of shad in 1960. Twenty-seven 

 pound nets, distributed throughout the Bay 

 proper on both shores, yielded 108,230 lb.; 

 1,540 yd. of anchor gill net in the Bay proper 



took 800 lb.; 300 yd. of stake gill net fished 

 in Eastern Bay took 350 lb.; 600 yd. of drift 

 gill net in Eastern Bay and the Bay proper 

 caught 411 lb. incidental to the catch of other 

 species; and 18 haul seines used in the Bay 

 proper for other species took 2,800 lb. Gears 

 were practically the same as those in the ex- 

 treme southern end of the Bay. 



Chesapeake Bay, Upper Central . - - The Uppe r 

 Central Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point to 

 the entrance of Romney Creek on the western 

 side produced 536,575 lb. of shad in 1960. This 

 was the principal production area in the Bay. 

 Stake gill nets (70,608 yd.) took 72 percent of 

 the catch, drift gill nets (12,462 yd.) 19 per- 

 cent, anchor gill nets (7,633 yd.) 8 percent, 

 and 5 haul seines 1 percent, incidental to the 

 catch of other species. 



This stake and anchor gill net fishery was 

 among the most productive on the Atlantic 

 coast south of the Hudson River. Nets were 

 set on both sides of the Bay but were concen- 

 trated on the western side. They ranged from 

 100 to 400 yd. long and 30 to 45 meshes deep 

 and had 5- to 5 l/2-in. mesh. 



Chesapeake Bay, North. --The extreme 

 northern end of Chesapeake Bay receives the 

 Susquehanna and Northeast Rivers from the 



Figure 19. — Pound nets fished in Chesapeake Bay, Md. (Photograph courtesy of Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 



Gloucester Point, Va.) 



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