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The products of the fisheries amounted to 734,775 pounds, valued at 

 $43,287. This represents an increase of 24 per cent in amount and 

 a decrease of 3 per cent in value compared with the amount and value 

 of the fisheries in 1921. The increase in amount is due chiefly to the 

 larger production of squeteagues. 



Of the total value, squeteagues accounted for 36 per cent; scup or 

 porgy, 13 per cent; shad, 12 per cent; bluefish, 11 per cent; and suckers 

 about 7 per cent. Of the total production, squeteagues accounted 

 for 52 per cent; scup or porgy, 17 per cent; suckers, 4 per cent; and 

 shad and bluefish, each 3 per cent. 



Operating units. — The catch of fishery products in Pennsylvania 

 during 1926 was taken by 40 motor and row boats, 12 motor vessels, 

 and 6 types of apparatus. The following table shows in detail the 

 statistics of the boats, vessels, and types of apparatus used in the 

 fisheries of Pennsylvania during 1926: 



Fisheries of Pennsylvania, 1926 

 OPERATING UNITS: By gear 



1 Catch of these dredges included with catch of New Jersey and Delaware. 



2 Number undetermined. 



Catch by gear. — Purse seines caught 79 per cent of the total pro- 

 duction; lines, 8 per cent; gill nets, 6 per cent; and haul seines, 6 per 

 cent, while the remainder was taken by fyke nets and stop nets. 

 The catch by purse seines consisted of virtually every species of 

 fish represented in the commercial catch, squeteagues and scup 

 predominating. Lines caught chiefly sea bass; haul seines, suckers; 

 and gill nets, mackerel and shad. 



