lis Fishing in North Carolina. 



several hundred thousand at a single haul of the 

 seine. They are shipped and sold, both fresh 

 and salted ; fresh in boxes, and salted in barrels. 



When I began to write this series of fish 

 stories, I did not intend to have anything to say 

 about the salt-water fishes, because I had so 

 little practical knowledge of the matter. Al- 

 though I have li\-ed three or four years on the 

 sea coast, I almost invariably went inland to 

 do my fishing. 



For what I now say I shall hereby give 

 credit in advance to that admirable work oh the 

 Fishes of ISTorth Carolina, by ]\Ir. Hugh M. 

 Smith, Depu.ty U. S. Fish Commissioner; so 

 that all that follows herein is condensed from 

 information contained in the aforesaid book. 



The shad is, generally speaking, the most 

 imjDortaut salt-water fish, because it is not only 

 caught in the soumis but runs far up the rivers 

 to spawn ; and is therefore more commonly 

 known and esteemed. While it passes most of 

 the year in the ocean, it seeks fresh water to 

 spawn; and is therefore not strictly or exclu- 

 sively a salt-walcv fish. 



