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79. Table showing the extent of the menhaden industry of New Jersey. 
Designation. 
Number of factories in operation 
Value of factories 
Amount of cash capital 
Number of shoresmen employed 
Number of fishermen employed 
Number of steam vessels employed 
Net tonnage 
Value 
Valuo of outfit 
Number of sailing vessels employed in fishing 
Net tonnage . 
Value 
Value of outfit 
Number of sailing vessels employed as “carryaways” 
Net tonnage — 
Value 
Value of outfit 
Number of menhaden handled 
V alue to fishermen 
Number .of gallons of oil made 
Value as sold 
Number of tons of scrap produced 
Value as sold 
1887 . 
1888 . 
8 
7 
$ 89 , 800 
$ 73, 800 
$ 57, 300 
$ 49 , 000 
116 
92 
139 
110 
5 
3 
180 . 70 
114.25 
$ 47 , 500 
$ 27, 000 
$ 8, 250 
$ 4 , 950 
6 
6 
116 . 79 
120 . 96 
$ 4 , 800 
$ 5 , 800 
$ 6 , 830 
$ 5 , 750 
10 
9 
126.21 
105 . 77 
$ 6 , 650 
$ 6 , 250 
$710 
$650 
27 , 915,000 j 
27 , 252 , 000 
$ 31 , 265 
$ 30,512 
176 , 600 
86 , 708 
$ 38 , 899 
$ 20 , 214 
2 , 243 
2,478 
$ 17 , 455 
$ 41,035 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
The„data given for this State include, besides the salt-water fisheries, 
the figures for the Susquehanna River as far as York and Lancaster 
Counties, and the Delaware River to the limits of commercial fishing. 
There has been a phenomenal increase in some branches, especially 
in the vessel fishery. In 1880 11 vessels were credited to the State, 
and these were employed only in the fishery for sea bass; in 1888 
there were 81 vessels engaged in different branches, including sea bass, 
menhaden, and oyster, a very prominent feature at present being the 
large number of vessels composing the oyster fleet. 
While the number of persons employed has increased from 552 to 
2,011, the improvement; is most marked in the item of capital invested, 
which is tenfold more than in the census year, as follows: $119,801 in 
1880 and $1,227,166 in 1888. It is probable that this showing is due to 
some extent to the fact that the canvass for 1888 included cash capital 
and other property invested in the wholesale fish trade, of which it is 
not apparent that account was taken by the census. But even if cash 
capital and shore property be omitted from consideration, there is still 
an increase in value of more than 200 per cent. 
The value of the catch has increased nearly 300 per cent., while the 
quantity has advanced from 1,680,000 pounds in 1880 to 12,900,670 in 
1888, the latter figure including 7,611,200 pounds of menhaden. Two 
steamers belonging to this State engage in the menhaden fishery, but 
land their catch in Hew Jersey. There was no menhaden fishery from 
Pennsylvania in 1880. 
The mackerel, cod, and haddock credited to Pennsylvania were taken 
by the schooner Roulette of Philadelphia, which fitted from and marketed 
her catch at Boston, Massachusetts, 
