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as well as their unusually complete records of catches made since 1908. These 
records are of great value in indicating the trend of the fishery with respect to species 
commonly taken in pound nets. Tables and graphs have been prepared from these 
records and they appear elsewhere in this report. Thanks also are due to the Parker- 
son brothers, of Ocean View, for permission to take specimens from their 1,800-foot 
haul-seine catches and for records of the fish taken at their fishery during the autumn 
of 1922. We wish to acknowledge, too, the courtesy of Messrs. E. E. Bennett and 
H. W. Bennett, of Bennett’s North Carolina Line, Norfolk, Va., in allowing us the 
use of their warehouse for storing equipment. Thanks are due the fishermen of 
Chesapeake Bay generally for their interest in this work and for their helpfulness in 
giving information and in securing specimens. 
We wish to thank Dr. Edward Linton, of Augusta, Ga., for examining the 
contents of a large number of stomachs of various species of fishes. Much valuable 
assistance also was rendered by Thomas K. Chamberlain, now director of the United 
States Fisheries Biological Station at Fairport, Iowa, and by Isaac Ginsburg and 
Irving L. Towers, junior aquatic biologists with the Bureau of Fisheries. Mr. 
Chamberlain assisted us in arranging the collection and notes in order to make both 
readily accessible. Mr. Ginsburg made many of the preliminary identifications of 
specimens, as well as a large part of the measurements and scale and fin-ray counts, 
etc., used in the descriptions. Mr. Towers examined stomach contents, assisted in 
the preparation of many of the tables included in the report, and made the final 
drafts of nearly all of the graphs and several of the drawings of fishes appearing in 
the report. 
LITERATURE ON FISHES OF CHESAPEAKE BAY 
The most comprehensive work on the fishes of Chesapeake Bay is the List of 
Fish of Maryland, by P. It. Uhler and Otto Lugger, published by the Maryland 
Fish Commission in 1876 in the report of the commissioner of fisheries to the governor, 
on pages 83 to 208, and dated January 1 , 1876. The second edition of the list ap- 
peared the same year, in a reprint, with few alterations, of the same report. The list 
in the reprint occurs on page 69 to 176. This work, however, is much more than a 
“list ” of fishes of Maryland, for a description (often very inadequate) for every species 
is offered, together with a brief synonomy, common names, and notes on occurrence, 
abundance, habits, etc. Nor do the authors confine themselves merely to the fishes 
of Maryland. “A Catalogue of the Fishes of Maryland and Virginia” would have 
been a much more appropriate title for this work. This catalogue was supplemented 
in 1877 by Otto Lugger, through the addition of 29 species, and again in 1878 with 
10 species. 
Shorter lists, with notes on the fishes from various sections of Chesapeake Bay, 
were prepared by the following authors: Tarlton H. Bean, 1883; Barton A. Bean, 
1891; Hugh M. Smith, 1892; and Barton W. Evermann and Samuel F. Hildebrand, 
1910. Complete titles and references to the publications by these authors are given 
in the bibliography. 
Several species of fishes from Chesapeake Bay also are mentioned in various lists 
by Henry W. Fowler. References to these lists will be found in the text under the 
particular species that this author mentions. Notes on the species propagated on 
