Report of the Board of Shell Fish Com missioners. 23 
WICOMICO RIVER, 
(Shown on Chart of Natural Oyster Bars, No. 12.) 
The part of Wicomico River lying within the limits of 
Wicomico County (above a line marking the deep water chan- 
nel) contains two small oyster bars —Holland bar, contain- 
ing 5 acres, and Ingram Shoal bar, containing 20 acres. Both 
bars lie in the deeper water of the river near the channel 
but both have been formed on portions of the bottom con- 
siderably elevated above the bottoms immediately surround- 
ing them. The depth of water over Holland bar varies from 
11 to 17 feet and the bottom seemed to be everywhere soft. 
The depth over the hard sandy ridge on Ingram Shoal is 6 to 
10 feet, the bar ending on very soft mud near the river chan- 
nel in water 15 feet deep. ts 
A brief description of Wicomico River and the conditions 
affecting the growth of oysters in its waters is given on 
pages 161 and 162 of the First Report of the Shell Fish 
Commission, the survey of the oyster grounds in the section 
of the river belonging to Wicomico County having been car- 
ried on at the same time as that of the Somerset County 
section. 
Practically all of the bottoms of the river are open for 
lease for oyster culture. 
MONIE BAY. 
(Shown on Chart of Natural Oyster Bars, No. 12.) 
The area of the section of Monie Bay which lies within the 
limits of Wicomico County is only about 600 acres in extent 
but it is more than half occupied by Great Shoals oyster bar. 
This bar, as charted and buoyed, covers 441 acres but about 
100 acres of it lie in Nanticoke Sound. An oyster bar locally 
known as ‘‘East Hill’? bar is included within the limits of 
Great Shoal bar, the two being separated in nature by a nar- 
row sand bar. The oyster bar begins on the hard sandy bot- 
tom near the six-foot curve on the north and extends to the 
very soft mud of the river channel on the east and south 
where the water is 14 and 18 feet in depth respectively. 
A description of the limits of Monie Bay and some of the 
conditions prevailing there during the summer of 1907 is 
given on page 161 of the First Report of the Shell Fish Com- 
mission. 
