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He has lived near Ward Point for many years, but only at the 
times mentioned had he seen the beach so covered with dead 
mossbunkers. 
On August 13 many schools of living menhaden were seen in 
the waters between Staten Island and Keyport, N. J., but by that 
time the remains of the thousands of dead ones on the shore had 
largely disappeared, with the exception of their bones. 
In the Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society for Novem- 
ber 1920, there is an article on Pound Fisheries of Lower New 
York Bay, and the statement is made that “ During 1919 and 1920 
there has been a tremendous run of menhaden, while for several 
years previous almost none were taken in the Bay.” 
Note.—In the latter part of May and first part of June 1921, 
dead mossbunkers were again very numerous on the shore at Ward 
Point, though perhaps they were not quite as plentiful as in 1920. 
