14 Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Pennsyluania. 



Northumberland up, as follows: 1. Line's Island lower fishery ; 2. Line's 

 Island middle fishery; 3. Smith's fishery ; 4. Line's Island upper fish- 

 ery ; 5. Scott's fishery ; 6. Grant's fishery ; 7. Carr's Island fishery ; 8. 

 Eockafeller's. The next fishery of which there is a record was the fish- 

 ery of Samuel Webb, located about four miles above Bloomsburg. 

 Above this point about four miles, and six miles below Berwick, was 

 the fishery of Benjamin Boon ; the next was located just above the 

 town of Berwick, and about a mile and a-half above Berwick was the 

 Tuckahoe fishery (this last is the same as the Nescopeck fishery men. 

 tioned in Pearce's history) ; the next was at Beach Haven. Between 

 this latter place and Nanticoke dam there were three, viz. : one at Shick- 

 shinny; one just below the mouth of Hunlock's creek, and one called 

 the "Dutch" fishery on Croup's farm. Above Nanticoke there was one 

 belonging to James Stewart, about opposite Jameson Harvey's place; 

 one at Fish Island, and one at Steele's Ferry, called the Mud fishery. 

 ' Che next was on Fish's Island, three-quarters of a mile below the Wilkes- 

 Barre bridge ; the next was Bowman's fishery, immediately below the 

 Wilkes-Barre bridge; the next was the Butler fishery, a little above the 

 bridge; the next was at Mill Creek, a mile above the bridge; the next 

 was the Monocacy Island fishery; the next Carey's; the next was on 

 Wintermoot Island, this last landing on the left bank above the ferry at 

 Beauchard's; the next was at Scovel's Island, opposite Lackawanna 

 Creek ; this and tlie Falling Spring fishery next above belonged to 

 parties living in Providence, away up the Lackawanna. The next above 

 was at Harding's, in Exter township ; the next above was at Keeler's 

 in Wyoming county; the next was at Taylor's (or Three Brothers) 

 Island ; the next was at Hunt's ferry circa, five miles above Tunkhan- 

 nock ; the next was Grist's Bar, about a mile above Meshoppen ; the next 

 was at Whitcomb's Island, a mile below Black Walnut bottom ; a haK 

 a mile above this fishery was the Sterling Island fishery ; and the next 

 above was Black Walnut, and half a mile further up was the Chapin 

 Island fishery ; the next was at the bend at Skinner's Eddy ; the next 

 was at Browntown, in Bradford county ; the next was at Ingham's 

 Island; the next was at the mouth of Wyalusing creek; two miles 

 further up was one at Terrytown; the next and last that there is any 

 record of was at Standing Stone, about six milae below Towanda. 



At the eight fisheries near Northumberland three hundred shad was 

 a common haul, while some ran from three to five thousand. About the 

 year 1820, the Rockafeller fishery, just below Danville, gave an annual 

 yield of from three to four thousand, worth from twelve and a half cents 

 to twenty-five cents apiece. 



The most productive fishery, according to a Mr. Fowler, was the one 

 just above Berwick. Here, he says, he has assisted in catching "thou- 

 sands upon thousands," bat does not give the annual yield. The same 

 gentleman also relates that at the Tuckahoe fishery " many thousands 



