WednenUy, March 4, 1961

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I saw a crocus'blooming in the yard this morning! That’s pretty early, but I’m still hopeful we’ll have an early spring like I hopefully predicted a month or so ago. Lew Dilks, of Villas, who I used to drum fish with, stopped in and left me an old picture of a 415 lb. sturgeon taken by Lem Allen and son. It was taken at a location that looked like the beach off Town Bank, and it yielded 82 pounds of roe at 12.50 a pound for $205, and 200 pounds of Sturgeon meat at 35« a pound for $74. This was taken in 1945, and that was a pretty good dollar catch in those days THERE USED TO BE A LOT of sturgeon fishing in the Bay back in the 20s and 30s, and there has bepn a lot written about this industry. Every year the fellows who have stake nets in the Bay catch some small stufgeon, but there’s some kind of confusing laws as to size, just like the laws on stripers in the Bay. I know from what Charlie Tomlin (Cape May Dairy) wrote about sturgeon that they used to go after them in boats, and they used to use a purse seine net on them, but I’m a little [vague as to how they were actually fished because most of the sturgeon fishermen died off, and it became a forgotten art. BURDELL SCHUBERT OF DIAS CREEK, and I were talking about the new netting laws, and the outlawing of taking stripers in the Bay, and neither one makes sense to me. I can’t see why a commercial fisherman has to pay a tax to have nets out in the Bay when this is a trade that has been carried on for years £y just a few individuals who just barely make a living out of it. The only thing I can see, is that it’s another way to get at a salt water fishing license. The government agencies usually start with the commercial fishermen first, and then work back to the sport fishing anglers. ' vSo watch out, fellow fishermen, they’re working on our case again. \ THE LAW ON STRIPERS is still not urWrstandable as far as I’m concerned. How can a netter stopa striper from getting in his nets, and how can a striper survive^fter he’s been caught in a gill net? Some genius in fisheries management hasn't done his homework very well — while it’s true that they have a decline in stripers in Chesapeake Bay due to PGB's and in New England due to pollution and illegal poaching—we haven’t seen the same falling-off of striped bass here on the Jersey Cape. You really can’t expect much better from agencies that ySty you can’t'catch a big striper on the Jersey side of the Bay\ but that you can take any size you want on the Delaware side. Ix>ur Dupuy of the Villas called me Friday to ask about a monk fish, and I couldn’t give him an answer as to what they were, and whether they were good to eat. Lou is known all over the Lgwer Township area because of his work on the CB net, and he’s done a lot of good in this area. I FINALLY GOT STRAIGHTENED out on what a monk * fish vyas from my old friend Bob Neely. Bob says it was also called a head fish or an angler fish, and that it looks like an over sized oyster cracker, because he caught one in his pound nets in the Bay years ago. When caught in quantity they were shipped to New York market for the meat, so they are good to eat. Bob also informed me that sturgeon fishing was most prevalent from the turn of the century to the 30s, and that they used big mesh nets for them like they use for black drum nowadays. He said the fish declined before the fishermen stopped fishing for them, because they were popular when they used to catch shad up the Bay around Camden. Most of the decline of these fisheries can be directly attributed to pollution from toxic wastes, but that’s another story I’ll have to go into another dily...

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CAPE MAY - ModelCleaners scored at least six points in each quarter in a 26-13 waltz with Casales in Pee Wee basketball. Rob Lundholm, Brian Lucas and Dennis Horn all tallied six points to lead an outstanding team effort that had nine different Model players scoring

Steve Perry dropin eight markers to pace Casales. THE ATLAS MOTOR Inn got their nlnning game cranked up again and raced around Barry Clothes 35-21. Barry Wise and Brendan Connor teamed for 27 points to counter the fine play of Barry’s Donald

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