[19] WORK 01' FISH COMMISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS. 135 



3. W. F. Sanuders. 



4. Yes 5 take them every pleasant day. 



5. Small menbaden. 



6. From 10th March to 1st April ; off Cape Henry. 



7. 20 miles in 24 hours. 



8. Ten fathoms. 



9. Mackerel do not approach the coast so near as menhaden. 



10. Two hundred thousand. 



11. They did not run last year. 



12. One and a half millions. • 



13. Luce Brothers. 



14. Twenty millions. 



15. Length, 130 fathoms. 



16. One season. 



17. Very seldom. 



18. Twenty men. 



19. Moderate southerly and westerly winds. 



20. To the head of navigation. 



" I think that the habits of fish are similar to those of birds which go 

 north in summer and return south in winter. I have not seen so many 

 mendadeu on the coast before in seven years, and have noticed that the 

 small ones appear in about this interval." 



Answers on board the next one : 



1. Steamer G. S. Allen. 



2. Wilmington, Del. 



3. William Spicer. 



4. Yes ; I take them every day when the weather is favorable. 



5. Mendaden of small size. 



6. On 15th April, off Delaware Breakwater ; as for mackerel, I do 

 not know. 



7. Twenty miles in twenty-four hours. 



8. From one to fifty fathoms. 



9. Sharks are seen in great abundance in this locality. 



10. Seventeen hundred thousand. 



11. Forty-four hundred thousand. 



12. Do not know. 



13. Brown & Lennon. 



14. This is my first season. 



15. Length, 170 fathoms; mesh, 2^ inches. 



16. If used steadily three months. 



17. Very few ; sometimes small bluefish. 



18. One gang of fourteen men. 



19. Moderate southwest winds. 



20. To the head of navigation. 



" There are two factories at the Delaware Breakwater, employing 

 three steamers and one sailing gang, fishing six seines." 



