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in length. The results of the examinations indicated that 57% of 

 the oysters on the bar were killed during the Spring of 1909, and 

 that 37 c /o of the living oysters on the bar at the time of the survey 

 were the "set" of 1909. The "cultch" on the sandy parts of the 

 bar consisted in worn fragments of shells. 



Man O' War Shoals bar occupies the sand bar of that name and 

 also includes the lumps which have been developed on the soft 

 muddy bottoms in the deeper water surrounding it. The Front 

 Range Light for Craighill channel is situated near the north-west 

 corner of the bar. The depth of water over the high central ridge 

 of the sandy shoal is from 4 to 8 feet, but oysters were taken in 

 water 17 feet deep. In the arms of the slough into which the 

 eastern end of the bar extends, much greater depths were observed. 

 At 10 examination stations on Man O'War Shoals bar 6 bushels of 

 shells were taken from 18.5 square yards of bottom. From this 

 material 16 oysters more than 2^2 inches in length (marketable) 

 and 99 oysters less than 2 J / 2 inches long (culls) and 187 recently 

 dead oysters (boxes) were culled. These findings are taken to indi- 

 cate that 62% of the oysters on Man O' War Shoals bar were killed 

 during the Spring of 1909 (10 of the culls were "spat" caught since 

 the Spring). They also show that an average square yard of the 

 bottom on the oyster producing part of the bar was stocked with 

 1.2 pecks of shells, 10 dead oysters, 5.3 small oysters and .8 mar- 

 ketable oysters. The stock on the bar is not equally distributed, 

 however, as is shown by the following table giving the findings at 

 each station : 



FINDINGS AT EXAMINATION STATIONS ON MAN-O'-WAR SHOALS BAR. 



Depth. Area Covered. Material Taken. 



Stations. Feet. Sq. Ft. Culls. Counts. Boxes. Shells. 



1 15 2 1 .. 8 1.5 Pecks. 



2 16 2 6 2 16 1.5 Pecks. 



3 14 2 1 .. 12 1.5 Pecks. 



4 12 1.75 3 .. 22 4 Pecks. 



5 17 1.4 8 .. 55 4 Pecks. 



6 11 2.3 16 .. 9 4 Pecks. 



7 .... 7 3.7 2 . . . . 2 Pecks. 



S 13 1.1 38 14 13 1 Peck. 



9 12 .75 20 .. 41 3 Pecks. 



10 11 1.5 4 .. 11 1.5 Pecks. 



Total 1S.5 99 16 187 24 Pecks. 



Average .. 5.3 .* 10 1.2 Pecks. 



