KEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



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from private grounds, and owes the importance of the industry to 

 this fact, New Jersey obtains only 35 per cent of the output from 

 private grounds. The oyster interests of Pennsylvania arise from 

 an extensive wholesale trade in Philadelphia, and also from the 

 fact that Pliiladelpliia vessels take oysters in New Jersey and Dela- 

 ware waters and are properly credited to those States. The feature 

 of Delaware's oyster business is the taking of seed oysters from pub- 

 lic grounds and tlie planting of this seed on private grounds where 

 growth and fattening are completed. Following are detailed statis- 

 tics for these States for the calendar year indicated : 



Statistics of the Oyster Industry of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 



AND Delaware, 1911. 



NEW YORK. 



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