154 THE SHAD STREAMS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 

‘Dutch fishery ;’ the price paid was £20, ‘lawful money of Pennsylvania,’ 
equivalent to $53.33.” 
It is a matter of record that Caleb Wright’s son received as his share 
of one night’s fishing at this fishery 1,900 shad. Jonathan Hunlock’s 
interest in the Hunlock fishery was worth from $500 to $600 per annum; 
it was a half interest. A Mr. Fassett was one of eleven owners in the 
Sterling Island fishery and his interest was valued at $100. 
Mr. Hollenback’s information on the money value of fisheries is con- 
sidered by far the most valuable; he says the Standing Stone fishery 
was worth about $300 to $400 .per annum; the Terrytown fishery was 
worth about the same; the Wyalusing Creek fishery was worth about $250 
per annum; the Ingham Island fishery $50 less; the Browntown and 
Skinner’s Eddy fisheries about $150 per annum each. “The Widow 
Stewart, at the Stewart fishery, used often to take from $30 to $40 of a 
night for her share of the haul.” 
The data bearing upon the commercial value only gives to the forty 
fisheries an annual value of about $12,000, a very considerable amount 
for those days, yet evidently it can be looked upon as too small, and the 
“catch” should be considered in forming a basis of calculation. 
At the eight fisheries near Northumberland large numbers of shad 
were taken; three hundred was a common haul; some hauls ran from 
three to five thousand. The Rockafeller fishery just below Danville 
(about the year 1820) gave an annual yield of from three to four thou- 
sand, worth from twelve and a half cents to twenty-five cents a piece. 
The fishery above Berwick was one of the most productive, and in 
speaking of it, Mr. Fowler says that he assisted there in catching 
“thousands upon thousands,” but does not give the average annual 
yield; he also says that at the Tuckahoe fishery “many thousands were 
caught night and day in early spring,” and at the Webb and Boon fish- - 
eries the hauls were immense; at the latter they got so many at a haul 
that they couldn’t dispose of them, and they were actually hauled on 
Boon’s farm for manure. 
At Hunlock’s fishery the annual catch must have been above ten thou- 
sand. At the Dutch fishery in one night thirty-eight hundred were 
taken. At the Fish Island fishery, at a single haul, nearly ten thousand 
shad were taken. 
Just before the dam was put in, Mr. Jenkins recollects of seeing a 
haul at Monocacy Island of twenty-eight hundred. At Scovil’s Island 
the catch was from twenty to sixty per night; at Falling Spring fifty to 
three hundred per night; at Taylor’s Island from two hundred to four 
hundred per night. At Wyalusing the annual catch was between two 
and three thousand, and at Standing Stone between three and four 
thousand. The daily catch at Terrytown fishery was about one hundred 
and fifty. Major Fassett says that at the Sterling Island fishery “over 
two thousand were caught in one day in five hauls.” 
