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FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



valued at $6,785. The number of row and gasoline boats was 243, 

 valued at $10,685. The value of the fishing apparatus employed in 

 the shore and vessel fisheries was $15,130, of shore and accessory 

 property, $846,915, and the cash capital was $1,170,000. The prod- 

 ucts of the fisheries consisted of 1,215,394 pounds of fish, worth 

 $63,209, and 118,700 bushels of oysters, with a value of $104,290, 

 the total value of fish and oysters being $167,499. 



Compared with 1901 the decrease in employees is 1,072; the 

 products show a decrease in pounds from 6,029,538 to 2,046,294, and 

 in value from $251,491 to $167,499. The catch of shad has decreased 

 from 703,031 to 188,571 in the number of fish, or from 2,982,868 

 pounds, valued at $124,328, to 835,544 pounds, valued at $52,472. 

 Alewives, fresh and salted, have decreased from 1,135,925 pounds, 

 $9,408, to 269,800 pounds, $3,540; catfish from 193,199 pounds, 

 $10,163, to 17,200 pounds, $1,147; eels from 140,504 pounds, $6,151, 

 to 60,650 pounds, $4,146; and German carp from 161,895 pounds, 

 $9,795, to 10,350 pounds, $549. 



The accompanying tables show in detail the persons, apparatus, 

 and products of the fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1904: 



Number of Persons Employed in the Fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1904. 



How engaged. 



On vessels Ashing 



In shore or boat fisheries 

 Shoresmen 



Total 



No. 



117 

 703 

 592 



1,412 



Investment in the Fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1904. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Gasoline boats 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries: 



Dredges 



Apparatus — shore fisheries: 



Seines 



Gill nets 



16 



280 



232 



11 



$48,200 



6,785 

 7,285 

 3,400 



5,814 

 4,132 



Items. 



Apparatus — shore fisheries — Ctd 



Stop nets 



Fyke nets 



Dip nets 



Lines 



Fish baskets 



Shore and accessory property 



Cash capital 



Total. 



No. 



1 



159 



Value. 



$100 



383 



482 



7 



1,195 



840,915 



1,170,000 



2,097,715 



Products of the Fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1904. 



Species. 



Alewives, fresh . 

 Alewives, salted 



Catfish 



Eels 



German carp . . . 



Mullet 



Shad 



Species. 



Striped bass 



Sturgeon 



Suckers 



Oysters, market 

 Oysters, seed . . . 



Total 



0,300 

 11,250 



2, 000 

 a 630, 000 

 b 200, 900 



2,040,294 



$087 



506 



114 



90,000 



14, 290 



107, 499 



« 90,000 bushels. 



b 28,700 bushels. 



