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bushels of hard clams during the season, which lasts from April to October; $2,000 worth of men- 

 haden are taken. 



OYSTER BAT. This village has one hundred men interested in the fisheries; thirty-five of 

 these are married, giving a total of three hundred persons dependent on the industry. Ten sloops 

 averaging 14 tons, eight averaging G tons, and five of 4 tons are employed; $25,000 are invested 

 in oyster beds and $2,000 in nets; $1,000 worth of menhaden are taken for manure in seines; 00,000 

 bushels of soft clams, G,000 bushels of hard clams, and 75,000 bushels of oysters are taken. 



COLD SPRING. At Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster'Bay, forty-five men are engaged in oystering 

 during the season, and from December to April fifty others find employment on the clam flats. In 

 this harbor there are 500 acres of oyster-beds planted under the regulations which govern the 

 oystermen of the bay. The harbor is 3 miles long by 1 mile wide, three-quarters of the entire area 

 being planted. Seven sloops, averaging 8 tons each, are used. In freezing weather, when the 

 boats cannot run, shipments are made by rail. The total shipments are estimated at 25,000 bush- 

 els of oysters, 2,000 bushels of hard clams, and 18,000 bushels of soft clams; $2,000 worth of men- 

 haden were taken. 



SYOSSET. This station, on the Long Island Railroad, sometimes receives a few barrels of 

 oysters and clams from the bay when the boats are frozen in. 



For the whole of Oyster Bay it is estimated that in the past year there were taken and con- 

 sumed at home 300,000 pounds of fresh fish and 2,000 barrels of crabs. 



119. HUNTINGTON BAY. 



The principal products taken from this bay are mollusks. The fishing proper is almost 

 wholly for supplying the villages of the locality, few, if any, being taken for shipment to New 

 York, though considerable quantities are carried to the interior towns of the island. Many 

 flounders and crabs are taken, but they are not shipped to any extent. 



HXINTINGTON. This village is situated on an arm of the bay which is well land-locked, and 

 out of a population of 2,500, perhaps ninety men are engaged on the bay, of whom forty are 

 married, giving a total of two hundred and fifty dependent upon the waters. Two thousand dollars' 

 worth of menhaden are sold yearly for manure. The boats owned here are small ones, mostly skiffs; 

 $1,800 are invested in boats, $8,000 in oyster beds, and $2,000 in seines. Many of the oysters are 

 shipped in boats belonging to other places on the bay; 15,000 bushels of oysters, 20,000 bushels of 

 hard clams, and 35,000 bushels of soft clams were shipped last year. 



CENTREPORT. Here we find one hundred men engaged in oystering, &c.; sixty are married, 

 and not less than four hundred people depend upon the business for a living. Three sloops of 18 

 tons; 9 of 7 tons; and 15 of 4 tons sail from this place. About $100,000 are invested in the oyster 

 business, and $3,000 worth of nets are employed in the fisheries ; 50,000 bushels of oysters, 75,000 

 bushels of soft clams, and 25,000 bushels of hard clams were shipped last year; $3,000 worth of 

 menhaden were sold for manure. 



NORTIIPORT. Few fishermen live here. Most of the oyster planters in the adjacent waters 

 live at Ceutreport. Mr. A. Ackley, an oysterinan, resides here, but the figures of his business are 

 blended with those of Centreport. 



EAST NORTHPORT. Fifteen men from this town and the adjoining country are engaged in 

 oystering. They have no large boats ; $150 will cover the investment in small boats; $1,500, in 

 all, are invested in the oyster business. The bulk of the product is marketed in boats belonging to 

 other places, though 363 barrels of oysters and 4 of hard clams were shipped by rail. 



