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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Statement of the number and value of shad caught on the Atlantic coast of the United 

 States in 1896. 



Georgia 



South Carolina . 

 North Carolina . 



Virginia 



Maryland 



Delaware 



Pennsylvania... 



New Jersey 



New York 



Connecticut 



Rhode Island . . . 

 Massachusetts . , 

 Maine 



Total 



22, 080 



68, 427 



.$53, 677 

 44, 808 

 19, 405 

 18,910 

 74, 178 

 68, 875 

 60, 936 

 36, 525 



249, 763 

 50, 938 

 10, 740 



1,689 

 10, 134 

 33, 602 

 944, 582 

 304, 808 

 129, 034 

 4,200 



191, 275 

 83, 775 



$285 



61615 



204. 080 



39, 663 



14, 959 



672 



29, 095 

 10, 449 



125, 248 $8, 627 



4,262 

 532, 966 

 151, 335 

 223, 351 

 53, 922 

 308, 335 

 466, 439 

 68, 345 

 7,472 



12,442 

 45, 825 



1,107 

 90, 899 

 12, 740 

 24, 499 



7, 154 

 40, 487 

 45, 790 



8,991 



1, 673 



1,390 

 2,512 



5,998,143 696,147 1,703,099 309,156 1,999,942 245,869 3,139,830 361, ( 



Pound nets and 

 weirs. 



478, 531 $90, 690 



1, 871, 074 180, 197 



449, 567 52, 658 



380 53 



40, 377 

 22, 550 



7,093 

 12, 472 



5,300 

 252, 480 



6,720 

 3,641 

 1,669 

 3,284 

 1,155 

 21, 565 



Florida 



Georgia 



South Carolina . 

 North Carolina . 



Virginia 



Maryland 



Delaware 



Pennsylvania- . . 



New Jersey 



New York" 



Connecticut — 

 Ehode Island . . 

 Massachusetts., 

 Maine , 



Total . 



Fyke nets. 



54, 008 

 5,600 



Bow nets. Miscellaneous. 



2, 865 

 24, 816 

 55, 710 



27, 612 

 2,300 

 10, 500 



$1, 125 

 6,089 

 12, 284 



3,940 



445 



1,893 



50 



714 



2,000 



3,463 



2,003 



5,400 



73, 440 10, 748 123, 803 25, 776 15, 172 2, 115 ' 13, 053, 429 1, 651, 443 



460, 214 



143, 974 



146, 627 



2, 096, 804 



3, 203, 503 



1, 541, 050 



468,344 



621,239 



3,338,480 



542,814 i 



70, 288 j 



13,532 



39,822 



366,738 



$62, 589 

 49, 289 

 33, 436 

 417, 243 

 307, 055 

 166, 551 

 69, 260 

 79, 445 

 340, 056 

 74, 833 

 14, 082 

 3,590 

 3,236 

 30, 778 



It appears that in the niiraber of persons employed, North Carolina 

 ranks hrst among the Atlantic coast States, this position being dne to 

 the large number of bow-net fishermen in the State. Next in order are 

 Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In the number 

 of shad caught New Jersey stands first, with a yield of 3,338,480, and 

 Virginia comes second, with 3,203,503 shad. Virginia usually ranks 

 first, with North Carolina second, but the catch in those two States in 

 1896 was unusually small, while it was considerably above the normal 

 in New Jersey. 



The extent hy water areas. — No regular shad fisheries are prosecuted 

 along the ocean shore of the United States, and the great bulk of this 

 species is taken within the gener al coast line. With the exception of 

 a few individuals caught incidentally in the several pound nets along 

 Virginia Beach, no shad are reported as obtained along the ocean shore 

 south of liarnegat, N. J. Between Barnegat Inlet and Sandy Hook 

 Point there are a hundred or so pound nets set for menhaden, fiounders, 

 bluefish, etc., which catch 10,000 or ir»,000 shad annually. The next 

 point at which shad are taken outside the general coast line is between 

 the eastern end of Long Island and Cape Cod, where 3,000 or 4,000 are 



