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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Inveslvient, persons engaged , and wages paid in the wholesale fishery trade of Nev: Jersey^ 

 in 1921, by counties — Continued. 



Items. 



Establishments. 



Cash capital , 



Persons engaged. 

 Wages paid 



Essex and 

 Hudson . 



Number. 

 6 



134 



Value. 



$270, 535 



30,500 



Monmouth. 



Ocean. 



Number} Value. 

 4 |$169,072 



19,000 



71 ......... 



49,427 



Number. 

 12 



28 



Value. 



$13,180 



9,500 



4,650 



Total. 



Number. 

 61 



Value. 

 J722,220' 

 230,100 



273,774 



The menhaden industry of Neiv Jersey in 1921. 



1 This includes 3,800,000 menhaden taken incidentally by fishing vessels. 



FISHERIES OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



The fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1921 gave employment to 591 

 persons, of whom 42 were on vessels fishing, 2 on vessels transporting 

 fishery products, 105 in the shore or boat fisheries, and 442 on shore 

 in the wholesale fishery trade and other fishery industries. 



The investment in the fisheries and fishery industries amounted to 

 $1,375,778, and included 4 fishing and transporting vessels, valued at 

 $26,800, with a net tonnage of 103 tons, and outfits valued at $5,125; 

 45 boats, valued at $4,305; fishing apparatus, valued at $5,192; 

 shore and accessory property, valued at $1,074,156; and cash capital 

 amounting to $260,200. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 594,613 pounds, having 

 a value to the fishermen of $44,621. The most important species 

 takenwerealewives, 20,085 pounds, valued at $405; carp, 9,712 pounds, 

 valued at $1,511; scup, 142,000 pounds, valued at $7,100; sea bass, 

 135,000 pounds, valued at $12,500; squeteagues, ''sea trout" or weak- 

 fish, 240,000 pounds, valued at $14,400; and suckers, 21,199 pounds, 

 valued at $2,469. 



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

 engaged of 821, or 58.14 per cent, in the investment of $721,937, or 

 34.41 per cent, and in the products of 1,451,681 pounds, or 70.94 per 

 cent, in quantity, and of $122,878, or 73.36 per cent, in value. 



The following table gives the number of persons engaged, invest- 

 ment, and the quantity and value of the products of the fisheries of 

 Pennsylvania in 1921: 



