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12. I don’t think I do. 
13. No. 
R. S. Emory. 
1. About twenty years. 
2. In Chester River. 
3. I have not. 
4. In the month of May. They are most abundant about 
April 20th. 
5. I do not. 
6. Much less. Cannot state cause. Have known them to 
be as scarce in previous years and then rapidly increase. 
7. I. Rock, perch, white and yellow; cat-fish, mud-shad, 
shad, herring, crocus, taylors and mackerel. II. White and 
yellow perch principally. III. White and yellow perch, rock, 
shad and herring. 
8. I have not. 
9. I have not. 
10. I. The male largely predominates. II. It is. 
11. I. From sixty to seventy pounds. II. I do not. 
12. They differ in shape, the male being the longer. 
13. It is not. 
Solomon Brinsfield. 
1. I have never followed fishing for a livelihood, but some- 
times angle for family use or for sport. 
2. In the waters of Broad Creek. 
3. Have not. The taylors visit our waters for about six 
weeks every year during August and part of September. 
Rock are easily frightened and driven away by the haul-seine. 
4. We have no shad. They do not spawn in our waters. 
5. Do not keep any account. In fact, may say I catch 
none, as there are none to catch, thanks to the haul-seines 
and other traps and modes of destruction. The haul-seine is 
by far the greatest enemy with which the fish have to contend, 
and should be abandoned absolutely. 
6. Know nothing about shad-fishing, as there are none of 
