2011-04-22

Chesapeake Bay Fishing - Quotes

FISHES CHESAPEAKE BAY PB


“Of fish we were best acquainted with sturgeon, grampus, porpoise, seals, stingrays whose tails are very dangerous, brits, mullets, white salmon, trouts, soles, plaice, herring, conyfish, rockfish, eels, lampreys, catfish, shad, perch of three sorts, crabs, shrimps, crevises, oysters, cockles, and mussels.” 


Captain John Smith, 1612 

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