FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UXITED STATES, 1922. 



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INDUSTRIES. 



Prepared products. — In 1921 there were 15 establishments in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., engaged in preparing smoked fish and other products, 

 having a value of $566,800, with cash capital amounting to S87,300, 

 and employing 118 persons, to whom SI 19,919 were paid in wages. 

 The quantity of smoked fish prepared was 1,185,328 pounds, valued 

 at $215,436. Other products prepared amounted to $84,480 in value. 

 Statistics of these products, by species, are given in the table below. 



Wholesale trade. — In the wholesale fresh-fish trade of Philadelphia 

 and Chester, Pa., in 1921, there were 52 establishments engaged, 

 valued at $503,486, with a cash capital of $167,900, and employing 

 324 persons, to whom $357,787 were paid in wages. 



Smoked and salted fish and other fishery products prepared in Philadelphia in 1921. 



' Includes Lime and poultry grit from oyster shells. 



FISHERIES OF DELAWARE. 



The number of persons engaged in the fisheries of Delaware in 1921 

 was 976, of whom 279 were on vessels fishing, 2 on transporting ves- 

 sels, 540 on boats in the shore or boat fisheries, and 155 on shore in 

 the wholesale fishery trade and other fishery industries. 



The investment in the fisheries and fishery industries amounted to 

 $585,616 and included 29 fishing and transporting vessels, valued at 

 $230,482, with a net tonnage of 760 tons and outfits valued at 

 $23,561; 416 boats, valued at $39,035; fishing apparatus valued at 

 $27,938; shore and accessory property valued at $153,400; and cash 

 capital amounting to $108,500. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 25,023,193 pounds, having 

 a value to the fishermen of $652,448. The most important species in 

 value were alewives, 351,590 pounds, valued at $6,431; carp, 87,820 

 pounds, valued at $13,166; croaker, 418,873 pounds, valued at 

 $18,682; menhaden, 18,082,000 pounds, valued at $67,970; shad, 

 86,836 pounds, valued at $16,312; squeteagues, "sea trout," or weak- 

 fish, 886,550 pounds, valued at $53,317; and oysters, 4,315,731 pounds, 

 or 616,533 bushels, valued at $450,873. 



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

 engaged of 923, or 48.6 per cent, and also in the investment of 

 $84,-379, or 12.59 per cent, but an increase in the products of 19,414,904 

 pounds, or 346.18 per cent, in quantity and of $392,858, or 151.33 per 

 cent, in value. This large increase in the products was due to the 

 fact that a considerable catch of menhaden was taken in 1921 and 

 none in 1904, 



