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8. I have kept no account of fish sold, but think about 
one-eighth rock, three-eighths shad, and the balance herring 
and small fish. 
9. I have. 
10. I have. It is a fact. 
11. Ninety-five pounds. I know nothing of their growth 
per year. 
12. I have noticed that the male rock is slenderer than the 
female. 
13. No. I think the rock can be successfully propagated 
in our waters. They feed on such fish as the roach or butter- 
head, and those of large size sometimes eat herring in spring. 
They come up our river twice a year, i. e., in the spring and 
fall. 
James Willis, Oxford , Talbot County , Md. 
1. Have fished for pleasure only, not for a livelihood, since 
1829. 
2. Tuckalio Creek, in Oxford, for the last twenty years. 
3. No. 
4. Usually spawn in March and up to June. 
5. Cannot answer this question, as the wind has often been 
known to “ box the compass ” five or six times a day. 
6. None, compared to what it was in 1831. Still decreas- 
ing, owing to the large number of haul, float and set seines 
and wier nets. Unless the necessary steps are taken to pre- 
vent further destruction we will have no shad in five years. 
7. Hock, sturgeon, taylors, perch, sheeps-head, crocus, 
doutys-plenty, eels, thorny-backs, horse-mackerel, trout and 
pike. 
8. No. 
9. No. 
10. No. 
11. Twenty pounds. 
12. Male rock is thin-gutted ; female rock is large-gutted. 
13. No. 
