![]() ![]() But each year, Bryum finds it harder and harder to fill his boat. So many glistening fish heaped together in the early morning sunshine certainly look like an embarrassment of riches. It’s beautiful fishing,” Herbert Byrum likes to say. The other fish - striped bass, perch, and catfish - to back over the side. When it’s full from gunwale to gunwale, their skiff holds about 4,000 pounds of river herring. River water, slime and silvery fish scales wash around their boats as they dip more wriggling bodies from the shrinking confines of the pound net - 40 pounds of fish per dip. The sun has hardly risen over the Chowan River, but Herbert Byrum, his brother Bobby and crewman Hazel Rountree are already knee-deep in fish. With the sun hardly risen over the Chowan River, crewman Hazel Rountree has a long morning ahead of pound-net fishing.
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