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Number of persons employed. 



How engaged. 



On vessels fishing 



On vessels transporting. 

 In shore or boat fisheries 

 Shoresmen 



Total 



1897. 



2,010 



271 



4,656 



*506 



*7,443 



* Exclusive of persons in the wholesale trade of New York City. 

 Table of apparatus and capital. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage '. 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries: 



Seines ».. 



Gill nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Lobster pots 



Dredges 



Tongs and rakes 



Apparatus — shore fisheries: 



Seines 



Gill nets 



Pound nets 



Fyke nets 



Dip nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Lobster pots 



Spears 



Dredges 



Tongs and rakes 



Hoes and forks 



Scows, floats, etc •. 



Shore property 



Cash capital 



Total. 



1897. 



No. 



477 

 7,413 



166 

 2,261 



4,089 



39 

 51 



655 

 2,236 

 1,155 



603 



140 

 3,118 



197 



3,487 



13 



3,572 

 2,477 



94 



1,381 



2,399 



632 



30 



Value. 



$682, 790 



191,782 

 127, 785 



9,293 

 267, 181 



16,800 

 4,770 

 5,025 

 653 

 3,698 

 9,644 

 4, 222 



10,010 



60, 417 



53, 780 



17, 195 



7 



1,738 



4,167 



2,474 



56 



5,282 



13, 134 



376 



7,160 



* 437, 930 



* 157, 500 



* 2, 094, 869 



No. 



501 

 9,258 



166 

 2,365 



3,970 



81 

 69 



661 

 2,796 

 1,159 



590 



148 

 2,870 



195 



3,531 



13 



3,399 



2,873 



85 



1,294 



2,300 



656 



28 



1898. 



2,549 



270 



4,522 



1,844 



9,185 



Value. 



8940,415 



256, 486 

 143,395 



9,789 

 258, 262 



38,250 

 4,641 

 5,085 

 647 

 4,663 

 9, 735 

 3,932 



9,840 



59, 048 



55,385 



16,016 



7 



1,927 



3,926 



2, 856 



51 



4,674 



12,607 



399 



6,530 



2,760,421 



2, 980, 800 



7,589,787 



* Exclusive of shore property and cash capital in the wholesale trade of New York City. 



STATISTICS OF THE FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 



The following tables show the extent of the fisheries of New York 

 by counties. Suffolk County easily leads in persons employed and in 

 quantity and value of products, the yield amounting to 87 per cent of 

 the total weight and 43 per cent of the total value in the State. It also 

 has the greatest variet}^ of products, nearly every kind of fishery 

 products in the State being found in the limits of that county. The 

 most important fisheries are for oysters and menhaden, their value 

 aggregating $1,181,013, or 76 per cent of the value of the total yield. 

 Prominent among other products in this county are hard clams, scal- 

 lops, squeteague, sturgeon, flounders, blue-fish, butter-fish, and scup. 

 The sturgeon fishery, prosecuted on the south side of this county from 

 Fire Island to Amaganset, is a comparatively new industry, originating 

 about seven years ago. 



