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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
A number of ponds are kept up by their owners merely as private preserves, as 
it were, the fish taken from them being either consumed by the owner’s household or 
given to friends. Such ponds are scattered all over the islands. 
The following is a rough list of the fish ponds still in existence, or traces of 
which remain, together with their area and a statement so far as possible of their 
present condition. There is no great claim to accuracy in this list, as many of the 
ponds are in inaccessible regions of the islands, and in such cases the writer was 
obliged to depend upon others for reports as to their present condition: 
