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Smoked fish and other fisherj/ produces prepared in New York City in 1921J 



Items. 



Number. Value. 



Establishments 22 i $637,735 



Cashcapital j 157,000 



Persons engaged 302 ] 



Wagespaid i 385,128 



Items. 



Pounds. Value. 



Smoked fish: Pounds. 



Buffalofish 495,000 



Butterflsh , 374,000 



Carp : 322,800 



Ciscoes i 2,419,000 



Eels ! 54,600 



Finnan haddie ! 1,432,000 



Herring i 450,500 



Value. 



$153, 700 



105, 600 



96,436 



476,490 



17,200 



147,000 



72,600 



Smoked fish — Continued. 



Kippered herring i 43,000 



Mackerel I 35,000 



Salmon I 3,462,125 



Shad 79,000 



Spoonbill cat 70,000 



Sturgeon 886,600 



Otherfish 93,000 



Total. 



Miscellaneous products . 



$5, 300 

 7,000 

 1,169,640 

 14, 890 

 58,700 

 621,800 

 25, 440 



2,971,796 



71, 937 



> Includes 1 firm outside of New York City engaged in preparing miscellaneous fishery products. 

 Menhaden industry of New York and Delaware in 1921. 



Items. 



Factories 



Cashcapital 



Persons engaged. 

 Wages paid 



Menhaden utilized 



pounds. 



Nxunber. 



3 

 '496' 



171,973,400 662,910 



: 



Value. 



$2,397,000 

 105.000 



182,603 



Items. 



Number. 



Value. 



Products prepared: | 



Dry scrap and fish 



meal tons..| 9,906 



Acidulated scrap.do. . ] 23, 000 



Oil gaUons.. 2,377,824 



$.396,240 

 460,000 



Total. 



1, 545, 137 



FISHERIES OF NEW JERSEY. 



The fisheries of New Jersey in 1921 gave employment to 5,771 

 persons, of whom 2,164 were on fishing vessels, 28 on transporting 

 vessels, 2,982 in the shore or boat fisheries, and 597 on shore in the 

 wholesale fishery trade, menhaden factories, and other fishery 

 industries. 



The investment in the fisheries and fishery industries amounted to 

 S4, 701, 704, which included 370 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued at $1,181,050, with a net tonnage of 4,590 tons, and outfits 

 valued at S262,410; 2,686 boats, valued at $684,679; fishing appara- 

 tus valued at $672,703; shore and accessory property valued at 

 $1,587,762; and cash capital amounting to $313,100. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 96,936,784 pounds, 

 having a value to the fishermen of $5,983,406. The principal species 

 in the order of their value were oysters, 22,997,555 pounds, or 3,285,365 

 bushels, valued at $2,759,930; squeteagues, "sea trout," or weakfish, 

 11,651,735 pounds, valued at $902,439; bluefish, 2,243,425 pounds, 

 valued at $390,947; clams, 925,588 pounds, or 112,111 bushels, valued 

 at $385,198; scup or porgy, 4,115,552 pounds, valued at $200,046; 

 butterfish, 2,862,491 pounds, valued at $159,286; flounders, 1,985,340 

 pounds, valued at $140,586; croaker, 3,815,554 pounds, valued at 

 $126,700; menhaden, 30,405,093 pounds, valued at $121,451; and 

 mackerel, 584,386 pounds, valued at $100,556. 



Compared with 1904, there was a decrease in the number of persons 

 employed of 3,323, or 36.54 per cent, but an increase in the invest- 

 ment of $2,015,908, or 75.06 per cent, and in the products of 6,828,716 

 pounds, or 7.57 per cent, in quantity, and of $2,597,991, or 76.74 per 

 cent, in value. 



