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Miacomet Pond. — This long narrow pond of about 60 

 acres is situated on the south shores of the island, with its 

 southern end separated from the ocean by a sandy beach. 

 This pond is sometimes opened in the spring, but practically 

 no alewives are taken, although a limited fishery might be 

 maintained. 



Hummock Pond. — Hummock Pond, a narrow elongated 

 pond of 150 acres, situated at the western end of the island, 

 is separated from the sea at its southern end by a sandy 

 beach. 



The public fishery, established in 1876, is reported to have 

 produced at one time 100 barrels annually, but of late years 

 it has become a matter of minor importance. 



Hummock Pond perhaps offers a better opportunity than 

 Miacomet or Sachacha Ponds, but to obtain permanent 

 results an opening to the ocean should be made regularly 

 each spring. 



Long Pond and Maddequet Ditch. — On the western end of 

 the island, and connected with Maddequet Harbor by Mad- 

 dequet Ditch, an artificial canal about 1 mile in length, es- 

 tablished in 1830, is Long Pond, a body of water about 2 

 miles long, and from one-sixteenth to one-quarter of a mile 

 in width. At high tide the water in Maddequet Ditch is 

 brackish as far as Long Pond. The outflowing stream, which 

 passes through marsh land, has a fairly strong current. 



This locality furnishes the only real source of alewives on 

 Nantucket, producing an annual catch of from 70 to 100 

 barrels. Each year the town appropriates $150 for its main- 

 tenance. 



If judiciously managed, Maddequet Ditch and Long Pond 

 should produce several hundred barrels of alewives per year. 

 Natural conditions do not permit the creation of a fishery of 

 such proportions as the Edgartown Great Pond on Martha's 

 Vineyard, but the fishery in this locality can be made of value 

 to Nantucket. The essential requisites are the maintenance 

 of a suitable passageway for the fish from the salt water to the 

 pond, proper regulation of catching in order to permit enough 

 to ascend the stream for spawning, and rigid enforcement of 

 laws governing public fishing. 



