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FISHEKIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



FISHERIES OF NEW YORK. 

 GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE STATISTICS. 



New York now ranks first among the Middle Atlantic States in the 

 amount of capital invested in the fishery industries and in the value 

 of the products. In 1904 these industries gave employment to 11,493 

 persons and utilized $10,621,616 worth of vessels, boats, fishing 

 apparatus, shore property, and cash capital. The yield aggregated 

 277,649,747 pounds, for which the fishermen received $6,230,558. 



The returns for 1904, compared with those for 1901, show a decrease 

 of 71 in the number of persons employed, but an increase of $1,177,345 

 in the investment, and 49,557,462 pounds in the quantity and 

 $2,336,288 in the value of the products. There has been a small 

 increase in the number of persons on fishing and transporting vessels, 

 and in the shore industries, but a decrease of 236 in the number em- 

 ployed in the shore fisheries. The decrease in the number of shore 

 or boat fishermen is due in a large measure to a falling off in the Hud- 

 son River fisheries. Practically every branch of the fisheries of that 

 stream has gone down, the number of persons employed in 1901 being 

 1,685 and in 1904 only 1,287. 



The three following tables show, in condensed form, the number of 

 persons engaged, the number and value of vessels, boats, apparatus 

 of capture, the value of shore and accessory property, the amount of 

 cash capital, and the quantity and value of the products of the fish- 

 eries of New York in 1904. 



Number of Persons Employed in the Fisheries of New York in 1904. 



How engaged. 



Number. 



On vessels fishing 



On vessels transporting. 

 In shore or boat fisheries 

 Shoresmen 



Total 



3,158 



484 



4,854 



2,997 



11,493 



Investment in the Fisheries of New York in 1904. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats, sail and row 



Boats, motor 



Apparatus— vessel fisheries: 



Seines 



Gill nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Lobster pots 



Dredges 



Tongs 



Rakes 



Hoes 



No. 



482 

 9,880 



204 

 3,720 



4,781 

 113 



283 



465 



3,160 



1,578 



337 



67 



5 



$1,314,275 



Value. 



455, 

 290. 



30, 

 255, 

 65, 



42, 

 7, 

 5, 



5, 

 10, 

 1, 



Items. 



Apparatus— shore fisheries: 



Seines 



Gill nets 



Pound nets 



Fyke nets 



Dip nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Lobster pots 



Spears 



Dredges 



Tongs 



Rakes 



Hoes 



Shore property 



Cash capital 



Total. 



No. 



209 



810 



306 



8,946 



18 



7,626 

 3,245 



259 

 1,364 

 1,734 

 1,205 



657 



Value. 



$15, 127 



35,095 



105,965 



41,460 



92 



2,303 



7,539 



4,225 



234 



4,703 



8,173 



6,822 



609 



4,314,115 



3, 590, 500 



10,621,616 



