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Largest seine in the world, This seine, operated for shad and alewives at Stony Point, Virginia, on the Potomac River, was the longest net of the kind. The net proper was 9,600 feet in length, and the hauling ropes at the ends were 22,400 feet long, giving 32,000 feet as the total sweep of the seine, only one end of which shows in the illustration. The seine was hauled by steam power and the labor of 80 men, and was drawn twice daily, at ebb tide, throughout the season. As many as 3,600 shad were taken at one haul, and 126,000 in one season, and 250,000 alewives were caught at one time. Recently the season's yield of shad fell to 3,000 and the fishery was consequently discontinued in 1905 after having been carried on for a century. This seine was a source of eggs for the Bureau's shad hatchery on this river
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| Category | Commercial Fisheries
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| Caption | Largest seine in the world, This seine, operated for shad and alewives at Stony Point, Virginia, on the Potomac River, was the longest net of the kind. The net proper was 9, 600 feet in length, and the hauling ropes at the ends were 22, 400 feet long, giving 32, 000 feet as the total sweep of the seine, only one end of which shows in the illustration. The seine was hauled by steam power and the labor of 80 men, and was drawn twice daily, at ebb tide, throughout the season. As many as 3, 600 shad were taken at one haul, and 126, 000 in one season, and 250, 000 alewives were caught at one time. Recently the season's yield of shad fell to 3, 000 and the fishery was consequently discontinued in 1905 after having been carried on for a century. This seine was a source of eggs for the Bureau's shad hatchery on this river |
| Image Date | 1910 |
| Subject | Seining
Stony Point (Virginia)
Fishing nets
Shad fisheries
Alewife fisheries
P:otomac River
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| Geographic Subject | United States--Virginia--Stony Point
United States--Potomac River
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| Image Source Author | Smith, Hugh M. |
| Image Source Title | United States Bureau of Fisheries : its Establishment, Functions, Organization, Resources, Operations, and Achievements |
| Pub. Info. | Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1910 |
| Image Source Series | Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. 28, 1908, Part 2 |
| Page No./Plate No. | Plate CLII-2 |
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