340 FISHING IN AMEEIOAN WATEES. 



Brought forward $12,000 00 



1500 bbls. herring oil, $30 45,000 00 



8000 quintals dried cod, $3 24,000 00 



20,000 quintals dried pollock, $2 40,000 00 



10,000 " " hakes, $L 50 15,00000 



500 bbls. liver oil, $30.... 15,000 00 



3000 bbls. pickled cod, $4 12,000 00 



5700 " " herrings, $4 22,80000 



1200 " " mackerel, $15 18,00000 



500 " " haddock, $250 1,250 00 



$205,050 00 



The foregoing statement is made by Captain S. Treat, of 

 Eastport, and is an average annual catch for the past five 

 years to 1868. 



WHOLESALE FISH DEPARTMENT OF FULTON MAEKET. 



This includes fourteen establishments confined to the pur- 

 chase and sale of food-fishes. The average annual sales 

 by each is $150,000. Aggregate $2,100,000 00 



In addition to these sales, they employ one hundred and eleven 

 fishing-smacks, the average annual catches by each amount- 

 ing to $12,000, or an aggregate of. 1,332,000 00 



$3,432,000 00 



SCOLLOPS. 



The trade in scollops is annually increasing, but, like the other 

 vast water-fields of Crustacea, the business is still embryotic 

 and the trade undeveloped. East Greenwich, R. I. , sup- 

 plies 100 gallons daily for half the year, or 18,200 gallons 

 at75 cents 13,650 00 



Southport, Matatuck, Cutchogue, and Jamesport, on Long Isl- 

 and, supply in the aggregate six months 18,200 gallons at 



75 cents 13,650 00 



$27,300 00 



SOFT-SHELL CLAMS. 



Comstock & Co., of Fulton Market, sold last year 3,250,000 for $8000. It 

 is estimated that this is about one sixth of the aggregate annual sale in 

 the United States, which would render the sum total $48,000 00 



I could not get an estimate on the business done in hard 

 clams, though it is nearly or quite as large as that in soft 

 shells. 



SMELTS. 



Trade in smelts is confined to six months, or to the inclement 

 season of the year, for which time the sales in Fulton Mar- 

 ket averaged 1,352,000 at 16 cents $216,320 00 



