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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES 



(Area XXIII) • 



The most recent complete fishery statistics for the Middle Atlantic 

 States (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) are 

 those collected for the year 1935. In that year the yield of the 

 commercial fisheries amounted to 279,438,100 pounds, valued at 

 $6,415,664 to the fishermen, representing an increase of 65 percent 

 in volume and 33 percent in value as compared with the catch in 

 1933, the most recent previous year for which catch statistics are 

 available. Detailed statistics of these fisheries for 1935 appear in 

 ''Fishery Industries of the United States, 1936," appendix I to the 

 Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries, 1937. A 

 summary of these fisheries and statistics on the catch and operating 

 units of the fisheries of Delaware for 1936 as well as the 1936 shad 

 fishery of the Hudson River appear in the following tables. Data on 

 the fisheries of Delaware for 1936 were made possible through the 

 cooperation of the State of Delaware in furnishing personnel to aid 

 in a survey of that State. 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States, 1935 

 OPE RATING UNITS: BY States 



« This is the number given to this area by the North American Council on Fishery Investigations. It 

 should be explained that there are included in this area craft whose principal fishing ports are in the area 

 but at times fish elsewhere. A notable example is the southern trawl fishery which extends into area XXIV. 

 For a clearer understanding of the statistics published in this section, the reader is referred to the section in 

 the latter part of this document entitled "Statistical survey procedure." 



