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4. Yes. 



6. Menhaden ; very small. 



6. 15th of April ; Chesapeake Bay. 



7. They are Local, spawning here. 



8. From 5 to 10 fathoms of water. 



9. None. 



10. Two millions. 



11. Twenty-eight hundred thousand. 



12. One and a half millions. 



13. N. H. Timbs. 



14. E^o. 



15. Length, 100 fathoms. 



16. One year. 



17. Very seldom. 



18. Nine men. 



19. Southerly and easterly. 



The cai)tain of the next one boarded replied as follows, viz: 



1. Harriet Howarth. 



2. Orissvesse, Md. 



3. J. H Crowder. 



4. Yes. 



5. Small menhaden. 



6. 9th of May; Chesapeake Bay; no mackerel seen. 



7. The J" are local, spawning here. 



8. From 3 to 6 fathoms. 



9. None. 



10. Two millions. 



11. Do not know. 



12. Nine millions. 



13. E. W. Reed & Son. 



14. Six millions. 



15. Length, 122 fathoms. 



16. One season. 



17. Very few ; some tailors, known in New York as bluefish. 



18. Nine men. 



19. Southerly. 



Off Rappahannock Spit, on the same date, boarded the following fish- 

 ing schooners, and, asking the same questions as above, elicited the fol- 

 lowing replies, viz : 



1. Stephen Hopkins. 



2. Baltimore. 



3. Alvin George. 



4. Yes. 



5. Menhaden. 



6. 1st of May ; Ohesapeal?e 3^J- 



7. Twenty miles a day. 



