THE LOBSTER FISHERY. 



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List of the Connecticut lobstei- smacks Continued. 

 ENGAGED IN OTHER FISHERIES ALSO. 



Summation of the lobster fisheries of the State of Connecticut in 1880. 



Number of fishermen 148 



Number of marketmeri 9 



Number of smacks above 5 tons burden 24 



Value (if same $29,950 



Number of boats 42 



Value of same $5,700 



Number of lobster pots 2> 100 



Value of same $2, 100 



Total amount of capital invested in the fishery $37,750 



Number of barrels of bait used 1,226 



Value of same $613 



Quantity of lobsters taken, in pounds 613,385 



Value of same to the fishermen $23,002 



NEW YORK. 



Although New York City is next to the largest receiving market for lobsters in the country, the 

 lobster fisheries belonging to the State are inconsiderable and at present almost entirely, if not 

 wholly, confined to Eastern Long Island. According to Mr. Eugene G. Blackford, lobsters used 

 to be exceedingly abundant in New York 15 ay and Hell Gate. On the New Jersey side of the bay 

 they were especially numerous, but now they are nearly extinct in this section of the State. This 

 present scarcity is probably due in part to overflshing, but also very largely to the establishment, 

 on the shores, of obnoxious manufactories, such as oil refineries, which have so befouled the waters 

 as to kill oft' the lobsters as well as other marine animals. As late as 1879, a few lobsters were 

 received at Fulton Market from Bobbins Reef, in New York Bay, but they were very small and 

 unfit for sale. 



On the north side of Long Island, at Mount Sinai, a few lobsters are taken annually, but the 

 quantity is small. The fishery is, however, conducted to a greater, though moderate, extent from 

 the following ports of Eastern Long Island, arranged in the order of their catch for the season of 



