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John Meredith, Cambridge , Dorchester County, Md. 
1. I have for nearly thirty years. 
2. Choptank and Transquakin Rivers. 
3. A good deal. 
4. They spawn in latter part of April and in May. 
5. I do not. 
6. It has been better than last year or for several years 
past, but do not know to what to attribute it. 
7. Shad, herring, rock and perch mostly. Also trout, tay- 
lors, pike and crocus. The first four .are best adapted to our 
waters. 
8. I have no account. 
9. I do not know that I have. 
10. I can hardly tell. 
11 . Three and a half to four feet. Don’t know weight. 
12. Female is thick ; male slender. 
13. I do not think so. 
Tilghman H. Thomas. 
1. For fourteen years. 
2. Choptank River. 
3. I have. 
4. From the 2d of May to the 20th. In greater numbers 
before they are ripe. 
5. ISTo. From three to fifteen hundred. Temperature of 
water not known. Winds u box the compass.” 
6. Decrease; caused by the river being blockaded, keeping 
tbe fish from schooling, and also by catching them in spawn- 
ing time. 
7. Shad, herring, rock and cat fish. 
8. Ro. From three to fifteen hundred. Price for shad, 
ten cents to twenty-five cents ; herring, seventy-five cents per 
hundred ; rock, four cents per pound. 
9. I don’t know T that I ever caught a ripe female rock. 
10. I have caught numbers of ripe male rock. 
11. Sixty -two pounds. I don’t know how fast they grow 
