404 KKPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FTSHERTKS. 



Table of products. 



Species. 



Albacore 



Alewives, fresh . . . 

 Alewives, .suited . . 



Blaek bass 



Blue-fish 



Bonito 



Butter-fish 



Cat-fish 



Cero 



Cod 



Crevalle 



Croakers 



Drum 



Eels 



Flounders 



German carp 



Haddock 



Hake 



Horse mackerel . . 



King-fi.sh 



Ling 



Mackerel 



Menhaden 



Mullet, fresh 



Mullet,. silted .... 



Perch, wliite 



Perch, yellow 



Pike and pickerel 



Salmon 



Scup 



Sea bass 



Shad 



Species. 



Shark 



Sheepshead 



Skates 



Spanish mackerel 



Spots 



Squeteagiie 



Striped bass 



Sturgeon 



Caviar 



Suckers 



Tautog 



Tomcod 



Whiting 



Clams, hard 



Clams, .soft 



Clams, surf 



Crabs, hard 



Crabs, soft 



King crabs 



Lobsters 



Mussels 



Oysters, market .. 



Oysters, seed 



Oyster shells 



Scallops 



Shrimp 



Squid 



Terrapin 



Turtles 



Total 



Lbs. 



2, 



38, 



299, 



11,973, 



351, 



168, 



19, 



110, 



91, 



265, 



405, 



"4,246, 



ft 902, 



(•13, 



f/719, 



<'417, 



/409, 



65, 



(/374, 



h 14, 646, 



i 10, 617, 



J 144, 



*:114, 



4, 



yi, 



8, 

 20, 



Value. 



117,930,964 



810 

 905 



48 



5, 729 



3,471 



315,770 



49, 734 



8,393 



10,959 



5, 459 



3,136 



4,519 



7,874 



552, 953 



54,918 



500 



23, 558 



51,861 



1,711 



8,340 



920 



1, 696, 767 



550, 918 



32 



3,200 



1,988 



826 



3,135 



1,053 



4, 755, 522 



n 530,759 bushels. 

 h 90,277 bushels, 

 c 1,667 bushels, 

 d 2,159,985 in number. 



e 1,253,730 in number. 

 / 204,900 in number. 

 » 11,860 bushels, 

 /i 2,092,335 bushels. 



'■ 1,516,796 bushels. 

 J 2,400 bushels, 

 fc 7,333 bushels. 



STATISTICS OF THE FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 



Fishino- is curried on in IT counties of the State. Essex County has 

 no lishino', l)ut there is considerable wholesale trade in hsh(M'v products 

 at Newark. Of these counties Bergen, Hudson, Union. Middlesex, 

 and part of Monmouth are on the Hudson River, StatiMi Island Sound, 

 and New York Bay; Ocean, Atlantic, and portions of ]\Ionmouth, 

 Burlington, and Cape Maj^ arc on the ocean side, while Sussex, War- 

 ren, Hunterdon. Mercer, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, 

 and parts of Burlington and Cape Ma}' are on the Delaware lliver 

 and Bay. 



Monmouth County leads in th^ ([uantity of products. AvhiU> the large 

 oyster industry of CundxM land places that count}' ahead so far as total 

 value of catch is concerned. Ocean County also surpasses Cumberland 

 County in (luantity. l)ut is far l)ehind both Cumberland and ^Monmouth 

 in the value of the catch. A feature of the fisheries of Salem County 

 is the immense preponderance of thc^ shad tislicry. 



The three following tal)les show the extent of the lisheries by 

 counties. 



