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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



THE FISHERIES CONSIDERED BY WATERS. 



In the following- series of four tables, the extent of the ale wife fish- 

 eries in 1896 is exhibited by waters; the first table shows persons 

 employed, the second the boats, apparatus, etc., used, the third the 

 aggregate catch in all kinds of appliances, and the fourth the catch in 

 the apparatus set especially for alewives. 



The alewife fisheries of the Chesapeake Basin are seen to have been 

 engaged in by over 900 ])ersous, or more than two fifths the total num- 

 ber of alewife fishermen, the Chester, Potomac, and York rivers being 

 most prominent in this respect. 



TaMe shoivhuj by waters the numher of persona engaged in the alewife fisheries. 



* Exclusive of duplication of tlioso engaged in two or more l)ranche8. 



