. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 8 pound nets are weighted and attached with cord so that they drop to the bottom in the event the ice moves. Fishermen attempt to recover the nets by going out in in boats and searching with grap- -^.M HB ^ â " pie hooks. The ice in Green Bay usually breaks up in four stages. The first stage is usually inthe Cedar River area, the second as far south as Ingallston about 10 miles north of Menominee, and the third along the channel of the Ann Arbor car ferry between Menominee and Sturgeon Bay. The
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 8 pound nets are weighted and attached with cord so that they drop to the bottom in the event the ice moves. Fishermen attempt to recover the nets by going out in in boats and searching with grap- -^.M HB ^ â " pie hooks. The ice in Green Bay usually breaks up in four stages. The first stage is usually inthe Cedar River area, the second as far south as Ingallston about 10 miles north of Menominee, and the third along the channel of the Ann Arbor car ferry between Menominee and Sturgeon Bay. The southern sec- tion of the Bay is usually the last to go. Only once in the last 55 years has the ice gone out completely in February. That was in 1944 when the ice went out on February 15. That year the bay didn't freeze until late in January. It didn't freeze until late this year and when it did a sudden cold wave made the ice brittle. Fishermen had predicted it wouldn't last too Fig. 5 - Dressing smelt in a plant in Escanaba, Mich. WAFER-TfflN OYSTERS Oysters as thin as wafers were grown last winter in Tedious Creek, Dorchester County, Md. The novel specimens grew by accident rather than by design on the bottom of a boat stationed in the area. "The bottom was literally covered with oysters about two inches in diameter and thin as a wrist watch, " said the skipper. "The amazing thing is that they grew that size since last June--right over a new coat of copper paint. " Oysters normally require about two years to reach two inches in size. They also prefer to attach themselves to cultch such as oyster shells, stones, or some other hard surface lying on the bottom. Al- though frequent reports of small oysters growing on boat bottoms are received, the wafer shape is novel. --The Compass. July 1955, Department of Tidewater Fisheries, Annapolis, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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