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  who 
  haul 
  the 
  channel 
  catch 
  and 
  boil 
  tliem 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  

   making 
  oil. 
  

  

  7. 
  Rock, 
  white 
  and 
  yellow 
  perch, 
  shad, 
  herring, 
  pike, 
  mul- 
  

   let, 
  sun-fish, 
  cat-fish, 
  bream, 
  shad, 
  sturgeon, 
  crocus, 
  diamond- 
  

   fish, 
  sheepshead, 
  taylors, 
  horse-mackerel 
  and 
  black-fish. 
  Oc- 
  

   casionally 
  we 
  catch 
  a 
  salmon-trout, 
  silver 
  gar 
  and 
  drum. 
  

   Rock 
  and 
  perch 
  are 
  the 
  best 
  adapted 
  to 
  our 
  waters. 
  

  

  8. 
  About 
  fifteen 
  hundred 
  bunches 
  of 
  rock, 
  averaging 
  ten 
  

   pounds 
  per 
  bunch, 
  and 
  about 
  1,190 
  bunches 
  of 
  perch 
  and 
  

   other 
  fish. 
  About 
  twenty 
  six 
  years 
  ago 
  I 
  caught 
  4,586 
  bunches 
  

   of 
  rock 
  at 
  one 
  haul. 
  

  

  9. 
  Yes. 
  

  

  10. 
  Yes. 
  

  

  11. 
  I 
  have 
  caught 
  rock 
  of 
  ninety 
  pounds 
  weight. 
  A 
  rock 
  

   will 
  grow 
  about 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  inches 
  in 
  length 
  per 
  year, 
  and 
  

   will 
  increase 
  in 
  weight 
  about 
  one 
  pound. 
  

  

  12. 
  The 
  female 
  rock 
  is 
  the 
  larger. 
  

  

  13. 
  No. 
  

  

  J. 
  P. 
  Todd. 
  

  

  1. 
  I 
  have 
  for 
  thirty-five 
  years. 
  

  

  2. 
  Choptank 
  river. 
  

  

  3. 
  I 
  think 
  I 
  have. 
  

  

  4. 
  From 
  the 
  10th 
  to 
  the 
  20th 
  of 
  May. 
  

  

  6. 
  I 
  think 
  the 
  boats 
  average 
  from 
  500 
  to 
  600. 
  

  

  6. 
  I 
  don't 
  think 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  as 
  many 
  shad 
  this 
  season. 
  I 
  

   think 
  the 
  pound 
  weirs 
  are 
  breaking 
  up 
  the 
  fish 
  in 
  these 
  waters. 
  

   They 
  catch 
  the 
  young 
  fish 
  as 
  soon 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  born. 
  

  

  7. 
  Shad, 
  herring, 
  rofck, 
  perch 
  and 
  cat-fish. 
  

  

  8. 
  From 
  500 
  to 
  1,000 
  per 
  aimum. 
  Shad, 
  ten 
  cents 
  to 
  

   twenty 
  cents 
  each 
  ; 
  rock, 
  three 
  cents 
  to 
  five 
  cents 
  each 
  ; 
  perch, 
  

   from 
  eighty 
  cents 
  to 
  one 
  dollar 
  per 
  hundred 
  ; 
  herring, 
  from 
  

   seventy-five 
  cents 
  to 
  one 
  dollar 
  per 
  hundred. 
  

  

  9. 
  I 
  have 
  caught 
  ripe 
  female 
  rock. 
  

  

  10. 
  I 
  think 
  the 
  male 
  rock 
  is 
  ripe 
  any 
  time 
  in 
  spring. 
  A 
  

   ripe 
  female 
  rock 
  is 
  not 
  often 
  caught. 
  

  

  11. 
  I 
  have 
  caught 
  rock 
  weighing 
  from 
  one 
  to 
  sixty-five 
  

   pounds. 
  

  

  