120 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Northward from the Delaware there are only three important shad 

 streams, viz, the Hudson, Connecticut, and Kennebec, the yield in 

 which, in 1890, numbered 588,898, 51,090, and 290,122, respectively. In 

 the Hudson, the most important apparatus are drift nets, stake nets, 

 and seines ; in the Connecticut, drift nets and seines only are used ; and 

 the entire yield of shad in the Kennebec is obtained in weirs and drift 

 nets. Besides these three rivers there are numerous small streams and 

 coastal indentations in which more or less shad are caught each year. 



The following statement shows the number and value of shad caught 

 on the Atlantic coast in 189G: 



Statement, by water areas, of the number and value of shad caught in each form of appa- 

 ratus employed on the Atlantic coast in 1896. 



