FI8HEEIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



477 



Ocean County, and one at Leesburg, Cumberland County. Part of 

 the plant of the latter factory is at Bakersville, Atlantic County, but 

 as most of the work is done at Leesburg it is all credited there. 



Table shntciny the extent of the menhaden includry in. Neir Jersey /// 1901. 



Items. 



Factories 



Cash capital 



Wages paid factory em- 

 ployees 



Persons in factories 



Persons on vessels 



Menhaden pressed 



Menhaden caught by ves- 

 sels 



Tons of dry scrap prepared. 

 Gallons of "oil made 



147 



139 



27,090,000 



38, 108, 615 



1,131 



109, 789 



Value. 



1124, 

 40, 



22, 825 



Steam vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Purse seines 



Sail vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Purse seines 



Sail vessels transporting. 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



6 



8 



107 



Value. 



830,000 



2,805 



FISHERIES OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



As Pennsylvania has no frontage on the ocean, its fishery interests 

 are quite limited. With the exception of the small fleet of vessels 

 engaged in line fishing in the ocean during the summer and in working 

 planted oyster beds in Delaware Ba}", the fisheries of the State within 

 the scope of this report are confined to the Delaware and Susquehanna 

 rivers. Several of the largest seine fisheries on the New Jersey side 

 of the Delaware River are operated by Pennsylv^ania, however, while 

 Pennsylvania capital controls a considerable part of the oyster industry 

 of New Jersey and Delaware. 



The three tables which follow show in detail the extent of the coast 

 fisheries of Penns}- Ivania in 1901 : 



Table of persons employed. 



How engaged. 



On vessels fishing 



On vessels transport! ig . . . 

 On boats in shore fisheries 

 Shoresmen 



Total 



209 



7 



1, 532 



736 



2, 484 



Table of apparatus and capital. 



