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dams in the Delaware, River at Lackawaxen, has helped 
us very much, althought this is one hundred and forty 
miles above Philadelphia.” 
Dr. Cary, of Georgia, asked if there were several 
well authenticated instances where shad have passed up 
the fishways. He says, that it is known that other fish 
do, but as the shad is a very nervous and easily fright- 
ened fish, I do not believe that there are many in- 
stances where they have been known to pass up the 
fishway. 
Mr. Ford said, ‘‘They have passed into New York in 
very large numbers and through the fishway in Lacka- 
waxen Dam. If you will look into the ’91 Report of 
the New York Fish Commission, you will find that one 
of the game and fish protectors states that he saw them 
in such large quantities that they completely covered 
the bottom of the river and were taken in large numbers.” 
Colonel Cary said that in Georgia the city of Au- 
gusta builta dam across the Savannah River. The 
people of South Carolina living above the dam protest- 
ed against the building of the dam, and as a compromise 
six McDonald fishways were directed to be built in the 
dam. He had heard nothing from South Carolina 
since, but the people on the Georgia side above the 
dam complained that the flishways were inoperative. 
He himself had visited every fishway in the northern 
and eastern states, but had never learned satisfactorily 
that shad had ascended them. There was no doubt in 
his mind as to their value to other fish, especially sal- 
mon, but he doubted whether fish as nervous and timid 
as shad are known to be, would ascend a fishway. He 
would like some authority to answer on the question, 
as the matter was being again agitated on the Georgia 
side of the Savannah River. 
