|
back
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION 1883.
Experience of a Menhaden Oil Manufacturer on Northumberland County, Virginia.
For the past three years I have been engaged in fishing for menhaden to make into oil and guano or scrap. Last season I had at this place seven sailing gears and one steamer fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean. I had my steamer, the J.W. French, seized by the authorities of Elizabeth City, Virginia, while fishing last July in the Chesapeake, although it had a United States fishing license. It was a few miles inside the Capes, but several miles south of that county, and in the waters of Princess Anne County. At the trial the judge confiscated steamer and nets, and I have appealed to the United States courts. Fairport, VA. October 12, 1882 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |