K<'i)i hij Akxandcr Kent, from April 'llilijo June 11/A, IHTo, 

 s:]iov:ln<j opcralion.s conducted at Coppagc's JMndlng, Chester 

 Uivcr, under directions of T. B. Ferguson, Commissioner of 

 Fisheries!, Mar-iiland : 



April 27tli. — Left Baltimore uii ISteanier Chester, fur Chester 

 Kiver; stormy weather prevented furtlier progress: tliaii Clies- 

 tcrtown. 



April 2Stli, ^'^loriii more violent, could nut proceed. 



April 29t]i. — -Oleiir and pleasant, proceeded up river, vcri- 

 iied informatiisn })revioiisly received l>y calling at shore cun- 

 tinually : -John Primrose, owner of iirst li she ry, rents t(.i 

 colored men for ;sl50.0(l pei' annum. Tliomas rrimrose, the 

 second, lets to V . Nichols. John Harris, the third, lislies it 

 liimself. The fourth is owned and fished by Kdward Slaugh- 

 ter, worth .$125. 00 per annum. T!ie Jiftli by Samuel Chairs 

 owned and Hshed, worth .S175.00 per annum. The sixtli 

 owned and tished by licbert ]>ustwiclc, wurth .S250.00 per 

 ;innum. 'Vhe seventli is tished by (r. H. Fennimure, owned 

 in Delawaic, w.irth sTu.OO per annum. The eighth owned 

 by Slieupai'd. tished by John Carson. Tjie three next in ordei' 

 are (fray's lishcry, owned by Mrs. j'h-y, one fished by tSamuel 

 Ashley, colored, anil one by (.•hester ijarruan, also culured. 

 TJjc following three s]n)res owned by Mr. Pickup, and fished 

 by Halpli, tlien one owned by Maticline, And fished by Ralph. 

 The rents vary greatly, running a.s high as S400.00. We 

 ;'ound C(j])})a.ge"s Laviding. about thi'ce miles abuvc Crumpton, 

 a favorable locality for camji, water wasfretsis. a.ndmany shad 

 ,.'a".e:ht, nearly ri[ie. 



.April ;!Oih. — Catch light. n<_t ripe lisli. 



