218 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



THE SHAD FISHERIES OF DELAWARE. 



The sliad fisheries of Delaware are prosecuted from Nauticoke Eiver, 

 Delaware Eiver, Delaware Bay, and small tributaries entering them, 

 as appears from the following series of tables : 



Statement, hy water areas, of the nnmler of persons employed in each branch of the shad 

 fisheries of Delaware in 1S96. 



Statement of the boats, apparatus, etc., employed in the shad fisheries of Delaivare in 1896. 



