CXXVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PISH AND FISHERIES. 



The following table shows the uumber of persons employed in each 

 State: 



Tahlc showing hi/ States the numher of persons employed in the shad and alcwifc fisheries 

 of the United States in 189G. 



States. 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



Florida 



Georgia 



Maiue 



Maryland 



Massachusetts . . 

 New Hanipshiro 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina . 

 Pennsylvania... 

 Khodo Island ... 

 South Carolina. . 

 Virginia 



Total 



Fisher- 

 men. 



278 



004 



487 



888 



435 



4,418 



342 



10 



2,937 



1,180 



6,112 



1,115 



6fi 



1,646 



3,972 



Trans- 

 porters. 



24, 796 



38 



73 



197 



Shores- 

 men. 



10 



385 



46 



35 

 10 

 990 

 14 

 18 



42 



1,581 



Total. 



278 



904 



523 



888 



445 



4,820 



388 



10 



3,010 



1,196 



7,162 



1,133 



84 



1.646 



4,087 



26, 574 



The investment in vessels, boats, apparatus, and shore property used 

 in these fisheries is very large, amounting, in 1896, to about $2,172,000. 

 This represented 56 vessels used in transporting thecatcli or in setting 

 the nets, 12,400 boats, over 4,000 pound nets and similar nets, nearly 

 950 seines (with a combined length of 133 miles), 84,000 gill nets (aggre- 

 gate length 1,970 miles), 800 fyke nets, and miscellaneous property. 



In ISTortli Carolina $623,000 was invested in tliese fisheries, the lead- 

 ing item of apparatus being 1,705 pound nets. Virginia is credited 

 with $442,000 devoted to this industry and with over 1,200 pound nets. 

 In both New Jersey and Maryland more than $300,000 is invested. 



The details of the fishery property in each State are shown in the 

 following table : 



Table showing by Slates the vessels, boats, apparatus, and ]}roperty employed in the shad 

 and alewife fisheries of the United States in 1S9G. 



states. 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



Florida 



Georgia 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts... 

 New Hampshire. 



New Jersey 



New York 



North Carolina .. 



Pennsylvania 



Rhode Island 



South Carolina .. 

 Virginia 



Total 



Vessels transporting. 



No. Tonnage. Value, ^^^-^^f 



51. 85 

 59.57 



298. 38 



14 



27 



138. 56 



4,000 

 4,100 



23, 000 



12, 225 



14, 167 



58, 092 



Boats. 



No. 



$30 



1,585 



3,631 



132 

 442 

 251 

 495 

 379 



2,220 

 88 

 12 



1,485 

 600 



2,966 



468 



36 



799 



2,049 



12, 422 



Value. 



7, 



8, 



108, 



127, 

 28, 



102. 

 21, 



14, 

 70, 



530, 540 



' This vessel fished for shad, using a purse seine. 



Pound nets, trap 

 nets, and weirs. 



No. 



26 



178 



893 



1 



12 



Value. 



$1, 400 

 535 



208 

 25, 255 

 66, 266 



150 



480 



