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who haul the channel catch and boil them for the purpose of 
making oil. 
7. Rock, white and yellow perch, shad, herring, pike, mul- 
let, sun-fish, cat-fish, bream, shad, sturgeon, crocus, diamond- 
fish, sheepshead, taylors, horse-mackerel and black-fish. Oc- 
casionally we catch a salmon-trout, silver gar and drum. 
Rock and perch are the best adapted to our waters. 
8. About fifteen hundred bunches of rock, averaging ten 
pounds per bunch, and about 1,190 bunches of perch and 
other fish. About twenty six years ago I caught 4,586 bunches 
of rock at one haul. 
9. Yes. 
10. Yes. 
11. I have caught rock of ninety pounds weight. A rock 
will grow about three or four inches in length per year, and 
will increase in weight about one pound. 
12. The female rock is the larger. 
13. No. 
J. P. Todd. 
1. I have for thirty-five years. 
2. Choptank river. 
3. I think I have. 
4. From the 10th to the 20th of May. 
5. I think the boats average from 500 to 600. 
6. I don’t think there will be as many shad this season. I 
think the pound weirs are breaking up the fish in these waters. 
They catch the young fish as soon as they are born. 
7. Shad, herring, rock, perch and cat-fish. 
8. From 500 to 1,000 per annum. Shad, ten cents to 
twenty cents each ; rock, three cents to five cents each ; perch, 
from eighty cents to one dollar per hundred ; herring, from 
seventy-five cents to one dollar per hundred. 
9. I have caught ripe female rock. 
10. I think the male rock is ripe any time in spring. A 
ripe female rock is not often caught. 
11. I have caught rock weighing from one to sixty-five 
pounds. 
