Table 34. — Shad catch, by water area and gear, Delaware, 1896 



Table 35. --Shad catch, by gear and state, Delaware River and Bay, 1960 



within Delaware (table 34); none of these 

 supported a fishery in 1960. 



Williann F. Moore of the Delaware Game 

 and Fish Commission (written communication 

 dated June 13, 1961) reported that in I960 shad 

 entered Delaware Bay on March 28 and the run 

 continued until early June. The estimated shad 

 catch was 140,000 lb.; 32,000 lb. were taken 

 by Delaware fishermen and 108,000 lb. by New 

 Jersey fishermen. On the Delaware shore, 

 stake gill nets (aggregate length 6,670 yd.) 

 were fished from Lewes to Bombay and caught 

 32,000 lb. of shad. On the New Jersey shore, 

 stake gill nets fished from the mouth of the 

 Maurice River to the head of the Bay caught 

 99,000 lb., drift gill nets 8,000 lb., and haul 

 seines 1,000 lb. The drift gill net and haul 

 seine shad catches were taken incidental to 

 the catch of other species. Stake gill nets 



fished near Bowers Beach on the Delaware 

 shore were the most productive, and those 

 fished near Cahonsey Creek on the New 

 Jersey shore were the most productive. 



Delaware River 



The Delaware River originates on the west- 

 ern slope of the Catskill Mountains in New 

 York at an elevation over 1,800 ft. above sea 

 level (fig. 15). It is formed by the union of 

 the East and West Branches 80 miles below 

 the headwaters, where it becomes the eastern 

 boundary of Pennsylvania. From this union 

 the river flows southeast to Port Jervis,N,Y., 

 south to Trenton, N.J., and then southeast 

 again into the upper end of Delaware Bay near 

 Bombay Hook--a distance of 368 miles. The 



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