FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1935 167 



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 1933. In that year the yield of the commercial 

 fisheries amounted to 169,753,735 pounds, valued at $4,811,055 to the 

 fishermen, representing an increase of 20 percent in volume and 3 per- 

 cent in value as compared with the catch of the previous year. De- 

 tailed statistics of these fisheries for 1933 appear in "Fishery industries 

 of the United States, 1934", Appendix II to the Report of the United 

 States Commissioner of Fisheries, 1935. A summary of these fisheries 

 as well as statistics of the shad fishery of the Hudson River for 1934 

 appear in the following tables. 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States, 1933 

 OPERATING UNITS: By States 



Item 



New York 



New Jersey 



Fishermen: 



On vessels 



On boats and shore: 



Regular 



Casual 



Total. 



Vessels: 



Steam. _ 



Net tonnage. 

 Motor 



Net tonnage. 



Sail 



Net tonnage. 



Total vessels 



Total net tonnage. 



Boats: 



Motor 



Other 



Accessory boats 



Apparatus: 



Purse seines: 



Menhaden 



Length, yards 



Other... 



Length, yards 



Haul seines 



Length, yards 



Gill nets: 



Anchor 



Square yards. 



Drift 



Square yards. 



Runaround. 



Square yards _ 



Stake.- 



Square yards. 

 Lines: 



Hand 



Hooks 



Trawl 



Hooks 



Number 

 825 



1,509 

 1,482 



1,773 



160 



2,422 



169 

 4,195 



636 



1,188 

 39 



Pennsyl- 

 vania 



Number 

 1.267 



954 

 1,622 



3,843 



208 



3,470 



3 



24 



211 

 3,494 



2 



800 



71 



5,926 



46 



40, 832 



254 



423, 369 



43 



124, 822 



49 



23, 161 



1,029 



740 



2,806 



7 



2, 510 



105 



9,040 



10 



5,830 



605 



448, 333 



69 



210, 695 



251 



46, 882 



Number 



Delaware 



Number 

 350 



34 



478 



10 



1,237 



16 



229 



1 



12 

 1,635 



7 

 5,200 



27 

 1,474 



Total 



Number 

 2,442 



2,497 

 3,635 



8,574 



19 



3,010 



384 



6,121 



4 



32 



77 

 181 

 30 



10 

 3,140 



61 

 18, 990 



63 



145, 720 



33 



41, 450 



99 



7,770 



407 

 9,163 



1,747 

 2,123 



157 



18 



5,946 



9 



3,310 



249 



35, 591 



56 



46. 662 



929 



1,022,622 



145 



376, 967 



399 



77, 813 



225 463 12 700 



441 720 24 1,185 



693 712 2 1,407 



187,600 420,400 1,300 609,300 



1 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 m 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." 



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