FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



477 



Ocean County, and one at Leesburf>', Cumberland C'ouiity. Part of 

 the plant of the latter factory is at Bakcrsville, Atlantic County, but 

 as most of the work is done at Leesburg it is all crc^ditcd there. 



Table xhowing the extent of the vienliaden industry in Ne-ir Jersey in 1901. 



Factories 



Cash capital 



Wages paid factory em- 

 ployees ." 



Persons in factories 



Persons on vessels 



Menhaden pressed 



Menhaden caught by ves- 

 sels 



Tons of dry scrap prepared. 



Gallons of oil made 



147 



139 



27,090,000 



38,108,615 

 1,131 



$124,000 

 40,000 



22,825 



51,810 

 52,046 

 25, 440 



Steam vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Purse seines 



Sail vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Purse seines 



Sail vessels transporting. 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



7,655 

 2,600 



12,575 

 2,700 

 6,100 



FISHERIES OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



As Pennsylvania has no frontage on the ocean, its fishery interests 

 are quite limited. With the exception of the small fleet of vessels 

 engaged in line fishing in the ocean during the summer and in working- 

 planted oyster beds in Delaware Ba}", the fisheries of the State within 

 the scope of this report are confined to the Delaware and Susquehanna 

 rivers. Several of the largest seine fisheries on the New Jersey side 

 of the Delaware River are operated by Pennsylvania, however, while 

 Pennsylvania capital controls a considerable part of the oyster industry 

 of New Jersey and Delaware. 



The three tables which follow show in detail the extent of the coast 

 fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1901 : 



Table of persons employed. 



Table of ajiparatus and capital. 



