Milford chronicle., 1892-10-07
eooa FeIlow.hip anon Ants Fl iac

i absolute and complete aEu hOuB bhS e.
the individual by the m every direc- 81
the cities of ants Supply them with +,
yidual propert scrap-thus captur-
been imaginssll the fish for their Pc u
one ON, cue ci.t,lzae'.less, but all other kinds b
ono ono I1fiving what few escaped from b
c;tv cHv nets of their food. The fisher
les on the shore, along the cove, az
the piers and the Breakwater,yleldeu
not only remunerative profits TO
scores and scores of our fishermen
Who earned an honest livelihood by ,
their tolls, but also supplied the
whole community of fish IoUers with
an abundance of fish at reasonable
Ithas been carefully and truthfully
estimated by some of our unbiased
citizens that the annual yield OF hsh
alonc our shores, before the advent
of these factories, was not less thah
five thousand dollars, and often
reached ten thousand; but now, and
ever since they have been in opera
tion. not as many hundred OF dollar
worth are to be obtained. What
lloss of money-four hundred tor hFe
thousand !"
If this condition of the dlmunition
of fish, as portrayed by this cores
pondent, affected Lewes alone, no
body would care, but say she de-
: serves it. But, unfortunately, the
r effect of these factories is disastrous
to fish all the way up the bay as far
as the sea trout runs. al,
The GHRoEICLR has repeatedly
' spoken of the matter and the danger
+ from these factories to our fish sup
+ nlv. with their murderons purse
S seines. they have almost swept edi'
!. ble fish from the Delaware bay; an"
h now we haye the testimony offs cit
:. izen of Lewes, that even at that fam
d GUS fishing resort, owing to the fst
e factories the catch Of fish for thu
a table has fallen off from five thous
and dollars and over per annum, t.
Y as many hundreds Of dollars.
h At the great bay shore trout fisher
1T les at Slaughter Beach, Big Stone
s. and Benefits Pier, that fish is prac
in ticsliy extsrmlnated or driven out G
s; the bay for want of its natural foo
ne -menhaden. From two to five han
he inc seines, each not less than on
ur hundred fathoms long, were en-
a ploved at each of the fisheries, an
as many as fifty to sixty hand Seine
m giving employment to hundreds
10 honest. industrious citizens. III IL
he height of the season the long sein'
to caught from fifty bushels upto twel'
M hundred bushels; which were sol
Fc.l lon the beach to farmers-remo
from the bay to salt for family u
mr. the price per bushel varied vii
nal the glut Of fish; but it usually ri
.ol from fifteen to fifty cents. Som
on. times as many as seventy carts al
MS wagons we're waiting on the beach
mr. secure loads for sale inlaud or
,ro, salt. The handsome catch W
YER mostly for sale in towns and for hor
ere. consumption.
H. All is changed now, owing to t
~ advent of the purse seines and t
~ fish factories; where one thousal
- bushels of trout WAS formerly caug
- at haul, now not one thousand trol
- are taken; and yet, many of the c
- izens of Lewes are advocating
ao5 releasing of the beach to a yank
: : fish manure firm for another
49,. wears, for the pitiful sum of 10
~. hundred dollars. By the time
I '. ten years expire, the Delaware b
will be as barren of trout as 5
. Lake in Utah.
1t is ridiculous that a money c.
y. sideration of only $4OO, should
'n.D l' made to outweigh an abundant, n
'n' ural, healtbfnl, and necessary fo
p1y 2 supply of fresh fish for tens of tho
% ands of our citizens, because the
M lightened citizens of Lewess WI
"ol somebody else 20 pay their tax
oui Already they derive considera
pa revenue from leases of Hughyv
snS' and possibly Waterloo; from
'ne pine woods on the Cape, and fir
se hay on the marshes in front of
~ town, from lands given the town
n'i' VIM. Penn; but not satisfied, Il
ene want to sell the peoples birthrigh
Iei fresh fsh-for $4OO, and a chOl
~ breeding carrion depot.
1t is idle for Messrs. Brown
~ ~ Luce, the fish factory firm, tSsef
- ~ that "some years tbesa5 .
,.3 numbers Of food fise 4 4
land sound and agaH5, vi
We know that this has ncS tes y y
ioare with the trout in Delaware bay,
'own fore the coming of the fish factor
'e to that fish year after year-as far b
tory as the oldest man can remembe
j: was not only abundant, but m
nmor than enough; and many were
sked mitted to rot on the beaches, and
y,as y to ale wife, the water was alive v
them THESE gentlemen argue [