Fish Hatchery Operation on Potomac River, Albemarle Sound, June 9, 1922

Fish Hatchery Operations

Reports of the eggs hatched by the fish hatcheries on the Potomac River and Albemarle Sound this season have been made public. At the latter port 19,500,000 shad eggs and 99,400,000 glut herring eggs were collected up to April 30 for incubation at the Edenton hatchery. Shad egg collections from the Potomac River up to April 30 aggregated 31,306,000, and there appears to be a fair run of shad in the river.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, June 9, 1922