150 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



fixed in the sluiceway. The wings consist of wooden frames covered 

 with small slats or twine and so arranged that, the wheel being fixed 

 in the sluice and rotated by the downward current of water, the fish 

 ascending the stream are caught and carried up by the wings and 

 shunted into a box or barrel placed at the side of the wheel, whence 

 they may be removed at leisure. The entire apparatus is constructed 

 quite cheaply, costing about $6. In addition to sbad these wheels take 

 suckers, catfish, redhorse, white perch, carp, etc., the value of the 

 annual catch being from $50 to $300 at each fishery. 



The lowest of the fishing-dams on Pee Dee Eiver is about 1 mile 

 above Cheraw and consists of 1 wheel and 3 fall traps, the length of the 

 dam being 280 yards. The catch at this fishery in 1896 was 100 shad. 

 About 2 miles farther up is a dam 100 yards long containing 2 wheels 

 and 2 fall traps, yielding 96 shad in 1896. Each of these fisheries is 

 small and only imperfectly obstructs the passage of fish. 



About 4 miles above the lowest dam is a seine fishery, at which two 

 seines, each 100 yards in length and with 2 inch mesh, are operated in 

 the spring. In 1896 they were hauled from March 15 to April 30, 

 about 18 times each per day during five days of each week, catching- 

 shad, redhorse, carp, fat-backs, suckers, etc. The yield of shad was 

 280 roe and 310 buck, against a total of 300 in 1895. 



Three miles above this seine bar is a fishery, which yielded 120 roe 

 and 136 buck shad in 1896. In 1895 it consisted of 14 wheels only, but 

 ill 1896 it had 23 wheels and 3 fall traps. A mile or so above the preced- 

 ing, is the Pollock fishery, containing 23 wheels and 7 fall traps. In 

 1896 it yielded 102 roe and»108 buck shad. Less than 2 miles above is 

 the Pegues fishery, a half mile below the North Carolina State line, 

 and containing 13 wheels and 3 fall traps which yielded in 1896 18 roe 

 and 14 buck shad. These fish-dams make pools above them 2 feet 

 deep, and back the water up about half a mile. 



One mile above the North Carolina line is the Mauship fishery, 

 entirely crossing the river, containing 22 wheels and 7 fall traps, and 

 yielding 5 roe and 7 buck shad in 1896, and about 95 shad in 1895. 

 The Dockery fishery, containing 14 dippers and 2 fall traps and yield- 

 ing 1 roe and 1 buck shad in 1896, and about 60 shad in 1895, is located 

 a short distance below the Carolina Central Railroad bridge, 8 miles 

 above the South Carolina line. 



Six miles above the railroad bridge comes the Ingram fishery, con- 

 sisting of 10 wheels and 3 fall traps. The dam at this fishery entirely 

 crosses the river proper, but fish may ascend by a small thoroughfare 

 which passes around an island at this point. No shad were taken here 

 in 1896; in 1895 the catch approximated 125, of which about 40 per 

 cent were roe. This fishery was established about 1865, it originally 

 containing but 8 dippers, the catch at that time averaging about 5,000 

 shad annually, selling at from 5 to 6 cents each. From 1890 to 1894 

 the annual yield was about 300 shad. 



