FISHEKIES OF THK MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATK 



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GENERAL STATISTICS. 



As compared with 181)8 the present canvass shows increases, except 

 in a few instances. In the number of persons empio3^ed there was a 

 decrease of 240, but the total investment increased 1392,148. In 1898 

 the total (juantity of fishery products secured in the State was 90,297,118 

 pounds, valued at $3,503,766, while in 1901 it was 117,930,964 pounds, 

 worth' $4,755,522, a gain of 27,633,846 pounds and $1,191,756. The 

 species showing notable increases are the following: Ale wives, blue- 

 fish, bonito, butter-fish, eels, menhaden, white perch, shad, squeteague, 

 spots, market and seed oysters. The increase in the catch of butter- 

 fish is especially noteworthy, having risen from 262,627 pounds, valued 

 at $8,080, in 1898, to 3,008,301 pounds, valued at $84,119, in 1901, a gain 

 of 2,715,674 pounds and $76,039. The principal decreases occurred in 

 croakers, sea bass, sturgeon, king crabs, lobsters, and mussels. 



During the last few years cold-storage plants have been erected at 

 various places on the seacoast, in which the surplus catch of the 

 pound nets is frozen when the price is low, to be ultimately shipped 

 when the price advances, or during the winter months when fishing 

 can not be carried on. 



The three tables below show, in a condensed form, the number of 

 persons engaged, the number and value of vessels, boats, and of the 

 various kinds of apparatus employed, the value of shore and accessory 

 property, the amount of cash capital, and the quantity and value of 

 the products of the fisheries of New Jersey in 1901: 



Number of jjersons employed. 



Table of apparatus and capital. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting. 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Apparatus— vessel fisheries: 



Seines 



Gill nets 



Lines, hand and trawl . . . 



Eel pots 



Crab dredges 



Oyster dredges and tongs 

 Clam tongs and rakes 



No. Value. 



390 



323 



1,654 



577 



533 8518, 025 

 5, 371 



143, 067 

 78 I 125,450 

 1,343 



23, 746 

 6,473 502,666 



5, 785 

 160 



1,052 

 223 



1,135 

 37, 188 



6,408 



Apparatus— shore fisheries: 

 • Seines 



Gill nets 



Pound nets and weirs. . . 



Fyke nets 



Stop nets 



Lines, hand and trawl 



Eel pots 



Lobster pots 



Oyster tongs, rakes, dredges. 



Clam tongs, rakes, and hoes. 



Minor apparatus 



Shore and accessory property . 

 Cash capital " .". . 



5, 058 

 158 



3,057 

 14 



5,275 



850 



5,096 



3,372 



$:^3, 000 



145, 146 



155,679 



3,110 



16, 955 



1,660 



3,421 



3,82J 



2, 358 



35,660 



22,337 



533 



785, 428 



155,550 



Total 1 2,729,571 



