FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



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from Monmouth and Ocean counties, who move up on the Hudson 

 River during the shad season. 



With the exception of Union County, which has an oyster fishery 

 at Elizabethport, the remaining counties of the state depend almost 

 entirely for their products upon shad taken in the Delaware River. 

 Essex County has no fisheries, but supports a wholesale fish trade at 

 Newark. 



The following tables give the extent of the fisheries by counties: 



Statement, by Counties, op the Number of Persons Engaged in the Fish- 

 eries of New Jersey in 1904. 



Statement, by Counties, of the Vessels, Boats, Apparatus, Shore Property, 

 and Cash Capital Employed in the Fisheries of New Jersey in 1904. 



