ALE WIFE FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES IN 1896. 



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seines, 030 set gill nets, and nearly 500 fished weirs and pound nets. 

 In the preparation of the catch by smoking and salting 134 persons 

 were engaged. In Maryland there were 61G alewife lishermen, and in 

 ]\Iassachnsetts 388, while in Maine, Delaware, New Jersey, and North 

 Carolina there were more than 200. The following table exhibits in 

 detail the distribution of the fishermen: 



7Vf/>/(; shoivin<j by Statca the number of persona employed in the alewife Jishjries of the 

 United States in 1896. 



* Exclusive of duplication of those in more than one fishery. 



The boats, apparatus, and other pro^ierty which may be credited to 

 the alewife fishery had a value of 1111,000 in 1890. This sum repre- 

 sents 1,232 boats, 542 pound nets, trap nets, and weirs, 223 seines, 

 1,469 gill nets, 70 fyke nets, and 215 dip nets, together with nearly 

 $27,000 worth of shore and accessory iJioperty. As may be seen from 

 the following table, tlie largest investment was in Maryland, where 

 $20,000 were devoted to this fishery, and where more boats, traps, and 

 gill nets were used than in any other State. Massachusetts, Maine, 

 and North Carolina rank next to Maryland in the value of the property 

 connected with the alewife fisheries. 



Table showing by States the boats, apparatus, and property employed in the alewife fisheries 

 of the United States in 1896 



Pound nets, trap 

 nets, and weirs 



No. Length. Value 



Connecticut , 



Delaware 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts ... 

 New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina . . . 



Pennsylvania 



Rhode" Island 



Virginia 



Total. 



3,290 



3,495 



8,683 



2,974 



155 



2,164 



1,488 



2,025 



501 



610 



2,139 



1,232 28,207 



$150 



8,240 



10, 160 



150 



480 



260 

 5,505 



Feet. 

 9,987 

 7,933 

 1, 932 

 1,920 



17, 739 

 360 



30, 642 



2,' 775 



9,600 

 2,100 



$2, 475 



1,314 



257 



256 



3,075 



50 



3,025 



1,380 



410 



