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  12. 
  I 
  don't 
  think 
  I 
  do. 
  

  

  13. 
  No. 
  

  

  K. 
  S. 
  Emory. 
  

  

  1. 
  About 
  twenty 
  years. 
  

  

  2. 
  In 
  Chester 
  lliver. 
  

  

  3. 
  I 
  have 
  not. 
  

  

  4. 
  In 
  the 
  month 
  of 
  May. 
  They 
  are 
  most 
  abundant 
  about 
  

   April 
  20th. 
  

  

  5. 
  I 
  do 
  not. 
  

  

  6. 
  Much 
  less. 
  Cannot 
  state 
  cause. 
  Have 
  known 
  them 
  to 
  

   be 
  as 
  scarce 
  in 
  previous 
  years 
  and 
  then 
  rapidly 
  increase. 
  

  

  7. 
  I. 
  Eock, 
  perch, 
  white 
  and 
  yellow; 
  cat-fish, 
  mud-shad, 
  

   shad, 
  herring, 
  crocus, 
  taylors 
  and 
  mackerel. 
  II. 
  AVhite 
  and 
  

   yellow 
  perch 
  principally. 
  III. 
  White 
  and 
  yellow 
  perch, 
  rock, 
  

   shad 
  and 
  hernng. 
  

  

  8. 
  I 
  have 
  not. 
  

  

  9. 
  I 
  have 
  not. 
  

  

  10. 
  I. 
  The 
  male 
  largely 
  predominates. 
  II. 
  It 
  is. 
  

  

  11. 
  I. 
  From 
  sixty 
  to 
  seventy 
  pounds. 
  II. 
  I 
  do 
  not. 
  

  

  12. 
  They 
  difier 
  in 
  shape, 
  the 
  male 
  being 
  the 
  longer. 
  

  

  13. 
  It 
  is 
  not. 
  

  

  Solomon 
  Brinsfield. 
  

  

  1. 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  followed 
  fishing 
  for 
  a 
  livelihood, 
  but 
  some- 
  

   times 
  angle 
  for 
  family 
  use 
  or 
  for 
  sport. 
  

  

  2. 
  In 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  Broad 
  Creek. 
  

  

  3. 
  Have 
  not. 
  The 
  taylors 
  visit 
  our 
  waters 
  for 
  about 
  six 
  

   weeks 
  every 
  year 
  during 
  August 
  and 
  part 
  of 
  September. 
  

   Rock 
  are 
  easily 
  frightened 
  and 
  driven 
  away 
  by 
  the 
  haul-seine. 
  

  

  4. 
  We 
  have 
  no 
  shad. 
  They 
  do 
  not 
  spawn 
  in 
  our 
  waters. 
  

  

  5. 
  Do 
  not 
  keep 
  any 
  account. 
  In 
  fact, 
  may 
  say 
  I 
  catch 
  

   none, 
  as 
  there 
  are 
  none 
  to 
  catch, 
  thanks 
  to 
  the 
  haul-seines 
  

   and 
  other 
  traps 
  and 
  modes 
  of 
  destruction. 
  The 
  haul-seine 
  is 
  

   by 
  fiir 
  the 
  greatest 
  enemy 
  with 
  which 
  the 
  fish 
  have 
  to 
  contend, 
  

   and 
  should 
  be 
  abandoned 
  absolutely. 
  

  

  6. 
  Know 
  nothing 
  about 
  shad-fishing, 
  as 
  there 
  are 
  none 
  of 
  

  

  