Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-11-18
FISH And OYSTER NOTES.
Tangier-men Arraigned for
preventing straightforward
OF Acres OF Gwynn's Island
being Taken Up.

Preventing Survey-Thousand
OF Acres OF Gwynn's Island |
being Taken Up.
Lambert p. Ayers, a fisherman on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia. was
tried and found guilty in the United |
States court on u charge OF placing
his fishing pounds in the water in
such a manner as to obstruct navi-
cation. Judge Waddill reserved his
sentence until later in the term.
The chief prosecution witness in the
case was Charles Nj. Bird, special
agent of the United States treasury
department.
In two days fishing, nearly twenty
tons of German carp have been taken
with seines from the Fox river,
Illinois. The work was done under
the supervision of Illinois fish war
dens and is still in progress. The
carp are loaded into specially pre-
pared chests filled with water, and
in their live state transported to
Chicago. They are sold alive to the
residents of the Ghetto. The war
on the German carp is due to that
fish's depreciation upon the eggs of
game fish. Like. the English spar
row this alien has become pest.
Twenty-Five residents of Tapgier
Island have been indicted by the
grand jury of Accomac county for
the part they took in resisting the
orders Of the State Board of Fisheries
last August. That body had agreed
to lease to Capt. Joshua Crockett a
tract Of oyster ground which had
been free to the people of Tangier
for generations. They gathered in
force to prevent it's survey and did
80, although the armed boat Kappa
hammock, of the oyster navy, lay near
by. Crockett shortly afterward gave
up his claim, as he could not have
secured it without bloodshed.
The following notice has created
CONSERVATION among the oystermen
in the vicinity of Gwynn's Island,
Mathews county:
have application for one thousand
| Il ,OOO) acres Of oyster planting ground
in the Chesapeake bay between stations
1O-l and 2. outside of the Baylor line,
made by the Deepwater- Planting Oyster
Go. Also applications for seventeen
hundred and fifty Il ,75O) acres made by
Diggs IL Co, Of Gwynns Island, two
hundred aud fifty (250) acres by w. E.
Marchant, fifty (50) acres by Charles +
Sadler and Charley Hudgins on Deep
Rock, two hundred (200) acres by A. L.
Winder and s. Adams, blank number
acres by r. b. F. Hudgins s. Sons, and
also an application for all OF the oyster
bottom from Wolf Trap to Rappshan-
mock joining the Baylor line by J. T.
Bussells.
| j. T. CHRISTIAN,
Oyster Inspector, District II.
Mathews county, Va, Nov. z, 1904.
All of the foregoing grounds lies
insbore from that last year taken up
by Irving, Willing and others, ex-
cept the broad application of Capt.
Josephus +. Bussells, of Hampton,
Va, but formerly of Irvington.
The Chesapeake Bay Tin Maryland)
is threatened by plague of mussels
similar to one of fifteen years ago.
y There are more CLAIMS and
oysters shipped in the shell from
Chincoteague, Va,- than from any
other place in the United States.
The island of Chincoteague, Va, has
population of 5000, all of whom
depend on the fish and oyster indus
try for a living. An
Eastern Shore (Md.) producer of
terrapin says he feels quite sure
restaurants and hotels are substitu-
ting muskrat for terrapin.
The big "catch" or "set" of young
oysters in Chesapeake Bay, will be
an excuse for the politicians to pre-
vent planting law and use the
voters Of Maryland for several years
to come. Prescott in his
Conquest of Mexico" says fresh
fish was frequently served at Monte
zumas' table in twenty-four hours
from the time it had been taken in
the Gulf of Mexico. 200 miles from
the capital. The fish was brought
by relays of rnnners.--Fshinq Ga
xette.