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12. The bayous along the coast. 



13. I do not kuow. I have seen them in all depths, from 3 feet to 6 

 fathoms. 



14. It does. They never come before it gets warm in May. 



15. They do; yes, but generally they go in schools according to size. 



16. They are, in July and August, about li inches long. 



17. They leave in September; in schools and by degrees. 



20. Some sort of insects, or it may be their own eggs; they are con- 

 stantly sucking in the tide. 



28. They are in all the bayous along the southern coast. 



20. I cannot say what enemies the spawn has; but shark and blue- 

 fish destroy the young. 



31. There is a bug, witli several feet or legs, found outside on the 

 cheek. 



32. They suffer heavily ; but, on account of their very great numbers, 

 are scarcely perceptibly diminished. 



33. I do not know of any. 



34. Ko kind. These fish are never captured. 



35. There are none used. 



36. No vessels employed of any tonnage. 



40. High winds do; the small ones are cast ashore in rough weather. 



41. None. 



44. None. 



45. None. 



47. None bought or sold. 



53. It has no history. There is none manufactured. 



54. There is no market, for there is no oil. 



55. There is no market; there is no scrap. 

 58. 1 cannot say ; they are never caught. 



74. Statement of George Oage, Beaufort, 8. C, January 20, 1874. 



Eeferring to your circular of December 20, 1873, relative to the " men- 

 haden fisheries," &c., I have to report that I have no evidence of the 

 existence in this district of either of the species of fish therein referred 

 to. There is no fishing here in a commercial or statistical sense. 



75. Statements of Joseph Sliepard, Saint Mary's, Oa., March 30, 1874, and 



January 28, 1875. 



I have the honor to state, relative to the species of fish known as fhe 

 mossbuuker, that after making inquiries of men who have made a busi- 

 ness of fishing on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, and who 

 have fished for the mossbunker farther north, that none of that species 



