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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1908. 



of the number in the shore and boat fisheries over that 

 reported for vessel fisheries was due entirely to the 

 influence of the Susquehanna Eiver district, where all 

 fisheries were of the shore and boat class. In both 

 the Lake Erie district and the Delaware River and 

 Bay district, persons employed in vessel fisheries out- 

 numbered those employed in the shore and boat fish- 

 eries. 



1 Exclusive of 30 proprietors not fishing. 



' Includes provisions furnished to the value of $21,000. 



* Includes one vessel engaged in transporting. 



Equipment and other capital. The following tabular 

 statement gives the distribution of the total capital 

 invested in the fisheries of Pennsylvania in 1908: 



1 Includes one vessel engaged in transporting. 



The statistics concerning the number and tonnage of 

 the vessels and the number of the boats are as follows : 



1 Includes one vessel engaged in transporting. 



The value of fishing vessels composed over one-half 

 of the total investment. Steam vessels predominated, 

 and steam and motor boats also largely exceeded all 

 other boats in value. The value of apparatus of cap- 

 ture constituted less than a quarter of the investment. 

 Of the value of shore and accessory property, $20,000 

 was credited to the shore and boat fisheries and $35,000 

 to the vessel fisheries. The cash capital amounted to 

 $3,400 in the case of the shore and boat fisheries and to 

 $29,000 in the case of the vessel fisheries. The total 

 investment in shore and boat fisheries, therefore, was 

 $90,000 and that in vessel fisheries $391,000. 



In the Delaware River and Bay district fishing 

 vessels represented considerably more than half of the 

 total investment, and the value of shore and accessory 

 property and the cash reported, in nearly equal pro- 

 portions, accounted for the bulk of the remainder. 

 The value of apparatus of capture formed only 5 per 

 cent of the total investment. The total investment 

 in the vessel fisheries of this district was $161,000, as 

 compared with $23,000 in shore and boat fisheries. 



In the Lake Erie district one-half of the total in- 

 vestment was in fishing vessels and one-third in appa- 

 ratus of capture. A few sailboats were engaged in 

 fishing on this lake, but no sailing vessels. The appa- 

 ratus of capture reported for the vessel fisheries con- 

 sisted almost wholly of gill nets. The total investment 

 in the shore and boat fisheries of Pennsylvania on Lake 

 Erie was only $53,000, while that in the vessel fish- 

 eries was $230,000. 



In the Susquehanna River district, as already stated, 

 the entire investment was in shore and boat fisheries. 



The distribution of the principal kinds of apparatus 

 of capture, by fishery districts and by class of fisheries, 

 is shown in the next tabular statement. 



