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V. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Industries related to the fisheries of Delaware, 1930 

 TRANSPORTING IN KENT COUNTY 



Persons engaged on vessels 5 



Vessels, motor 1 



Net tonnage 9 



WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING 

 Operating Units, Salaries, and Wages 



Item 



Kent 

 County 



Newcastle 

 County 



Sussex 

 County 



Total 



Establishments.- 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners — 



Average for season 



Average for year 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total, salaries and wages 



$7, 752 

 15, 047 



22, 799 



$6, 500 

 10, 682 



17, 182 



283 

 103 



61, 365 



90, 205 



333 

 130 



$43, 092 

 87, 094 



130, 186. 



Products Manufactured 



FISHERMEN'S MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS 

 [Number of persons engaged, 39] 



King crabs, dry scrap - tons- 



178 



$7,104 



1 Includes shucked hard clams; marine and domestic shell products; canned sturgeon caviar; oyster-shell 

 products; and menhaden products. 



2 Data not available. 



Note.— Some of the above products may have been manufactured from fishery products imported from 

 another State or country; therefore, they can not be correlated directly with the catch within the State. 

 Of the total number of persons employed on transporting craft, 5 have also been included as fishermen, 

 and among the total persons engaged in the preparation of fishermen's manufactured products, 39 have been 

 included as fishermen. These facts should be considered when computing the total number of persons in 

 the fishery industries exclusive of duplication. 



VESSEL FISHERIES AT NEW YORK CITY AND GROTON, CONN.^ 



During 1931 fishing vessels of 5 net tons capacity or greater landed 

 51,854,000 pounds of fishery products at New York City and Groton, 

 Conn. This is 9 per cent less than during the previous year. The 

 landings consisted of bluefish, 1,788,000 pounds; cod, 5,368,000 

 pounds; flounders, 8,438,000 pounds; haddock, 28,502,000 pounds; 

 halibut, 47,000 pounds; mackerel, 1,685,000 pounds; scup or porgies 

 and sea bass, 696,000 pounds; tilefish, 2,782,000 pounds; squeteague 

 or weakfish, 37,000 pounds; and miscellaneous species, 2,511,000 

 pounds. 



' statistics on the landings at New York City are collected by J. H. Matthews, executive secretary. 

 Middle Atlantic Fisheries Association and forwarded to this bureau where they are combined with Groton 

 landings. The statistics for the two ports are combined to avoid disclosure of individual enterprise. 



