Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1921, Page 63

THE SUNDAY STAR,. WASHINGTON, D. 1921. 13, - Trapping Food Fish in Chesapeaké Bay Photos by H. Armsirong Roberts. Lifting the pocket net of a pound in Chesapeake bay. This daring work calls for sturdy craft and men of brawn. The photographer who snapped this picture climbed one of the aet poles, his camera tied about his neck. Sorting and unloading fish from a pound boat. The traps, or pounds as they are sometimes called, arc located in about thirty feet of water, from one-half to one mile off shore. The nets are hung from tall poles. The fish are diverted into a funnel net which carries them into the main net pocket. A maze of cordage, netting and rigging is involved in a pound outfit. This photograph, with the net on shore, was made just after the day’s catch and a quick run to land, where the fish are cleaned, packed in ice and shipped to the large cities. The bottoms of the nets are securely lashed to stout A great many of the men engaged in the Chesapeake bay “And so”—said the old fisherman—"they were never heard of again. chains that are stretched within a few feet of the bed of the fisheries are Scandinavians, accustomed to battling with the They sailed out upon a sea of dreams; they found romance and adventure bay. All sorts and sizes of fish are caught, from the half- sea in any sort of weather. From twenty to fifty barrels of such as never heard of before or since. But the phantom waves called to pound porgie to huge horse mackerel, weighing three or four fish is an average day's haul. This fisherman is a sorter of them—and sometimes, when the tide comes in of evenings, you may hear hundred pounds. the non-edible fish from the edible. them singing away off yonder where the sea touches the sky.