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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Tabic showing by waters the boats, apparatus, and other inoperty employed in the alewife 



fisheries — Continued. 



States . 



Fyke nets. 



No. Value. 



Dennys River Maine 



Macbiaa Kiver do 



Penobscot River do 



Modomatc Kiver do 



St. George Kiver do 



lYinaquid Kiver ! do 



Damariscotta Kiver do 



Kennebec Kiver do 



Casco Kay do 



Shores of Maine do 



Newmarket Kiver New Hampshire 



Exeter Kiver do 



Merrimac Kiver Massachusetts. . 



Taunton Kiver do | 



Ponds, small rivers, and creeks do 



Ponds and small rivers 



Connecticut Kiver 



Shores of Long Island 



Hudson River 



Shores of New Jersey 



Delaware Kiver 



Delaware Hay 



Indian River 



Dip nets. 



No. Value. 



Chesapeake Bay and tributaries : 



Bay Hhores ... 



Susquehanna Kiver 



Elk Kiver 



Chester River 



Choptank River 



Nanticoke River 



Wicomico River 



Pocomoke River 



Patuxont River 



Potomac River 



Rappahannock River 



York River and tributaries 



James River and tributaries ... 

 Sassafras River 



Total. 



Albemarle Sound and tributaries . 

 Neuse River and tributaries 



Grand total 



Rhode Island. 

 Connecticut . . 



New York 



....do 



New Jersey . . 

 Pa. and Del . . . 



Delaware 



....do 



Maryland... 



....do 



....do 



....do 



....do 



do 



....do 



do 



do 



Md. and Va. 



Virginia 



do 



do 



Maryland. .. 



North Carolina 

 do 



$180 



95 



85 



Value of 

 shore and 

 accessory 

 property. 



(17 



193 



215 



415 



$53 

 365 

 953 

 220 



1,361 

 250 



1, 980 



Total 

 value of 

 invest- 

 ment. 



77 



110 



15 



340 



96 



9, 443 



3, 419 



1,050 



470 



300 

 800 



1,795 



385 



100 



375 



40 



300 



315 



1,515 



3,350 



27, 962 



$373 



735 



9,888 



228 



2, 015 



256 



3,294 



2 



605 



187 



175 



865 



2, 366 



12, 068 



5,036 



3,490 



3,648 



1,770 



2,318 



6,773 



4,171 



275 



5,070 



10, 670 



1,205 



7,895 



1,692 



255 



388 



305 



80 



415 



5, 204 



103 



1, 560 



1,046 



2,465 



33, 283 



12, 270 

 85 



111, 246 



Among the streams of New England in which alewives are taken 

 Damariscotta Kiver in Maine had the largest catch in 1896, followed 

 by the Connecticut, Taunton, Merrimac, St. George, and Penobscot. In 

 the middle Atlantic region the basin of Chesapeake Bay (in Maryland, 

 Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia) yielded 

 more than half of the entire catch of the United States. Upwards of 

 one-third of the output in this area was taken in the Potomac, which is 

 now the leading alewife stream of the country. Second in importance 

 is the Susquehanna, after which come the Delaware, Rappahannock, 

 Elk, Hudson, Choptank, and Nanticoke. Albemarle Sound with its 

 tributaries ranks next to the Chesapeake in the production of alewives. 

 More than one fifth of the aggregate catch of the country is obtained 

 in this section. The Chowan, the principal affluent of the sound, has a 

 very large alewife fishery, ranking next to that of the Potomac in 

 extent. 



