FISHERIES OF PAMLICO AND CORE SOUNDS 65 
April and May, when Pamlico Sound fish are not produced, and it is 
not apparent why this trade is not already captured by the Virginia 
dealers during these months. Moreover, it is said that conditions 
in the pound-net fishery of Chesapeake Bay closely parallel those 
in Pamlico Sound, and if this be true it can only be a matter of time 
until the facts will be ascertained and similar remedies applied. 
RECOMMENDATIONS 
We have seen that the supply of fish in North Carolina does not 
equal the demand, that wasteful practices exist in the pound-net 
fishery, and that the establishment of a closed season for all pound- 
net fishing in the sound during the months of June and July would 
correct these wasteful practices and tend to increase the fish supply. 
With the facts discovered and impartially published, it now 
remains for the people of North Carolina to decide, through the 
agency of the Fisheries Commission Board, how long they shall 
permit such wasteful and destructive exploitation of the public 
resources to continue. The importance of sales in June and July 
for the benefit of the few must be balanced against the importance 
of maintaining the fisheries for all time for the benefit of all. 
We therefore recommend that such closed season be established 
to meet the demand of the fishermen to ‘‘ put more fish in the sounds.”’ - 
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