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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Next to Suffolk, the counties most prominent in the fisheries are 

 Queens, New York, Richmond, and Kings, in the order named, the 

 value of products in those counties in 1898 ranging from $620,591 in 

 Queens to $374,870 in Kings County. The oyster yield is the most 

 valuable in each except New York, in which the blue-fish fishery is far 

 the most valuable. In those counties bordering on the Hudson the 

 fisheries are of much less importance, the principal species being shad 

 and alewivcs, which are taken chiefly in gill nets and seines. 



Table showing, by counties, the number of persons employed in the fisheries of New York in 



1897 and 1898. 



Counties. 



On vessels 

 fishing. 



On vessels 

 transporting. 



In shore or boat 

 fisheries. 



Shoresmen. 



Total. 





1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



Albany 











50 

 57 



216 

 78 



495 



49 

 61 



204 

 89 



481 







50 



57 



218 



80 



697 



*637 



68 



14 



1,272 



30 



587 



123 



2,917 



277 



416 



49 



Columbia 











'1 



2 

 82 



1 



2 



2 



10 



1,419 



62 



Dutchess 











206 



Greene -.. 











91 



Kings. 



75 

 629 



30 

 671 



45 



8 



47 

 8 



568 



New York 



2,098 



Orange 



68 



14 



998 



30 



330 



123 



1,539 



268 



390 



64 



10 



952 



30 



322 



119 



1,49^ 



264 



379 





64 



Putnam 















10 



Queens 



161 



176 



104 



90 



9 



9 



1,227 



Rensselaer 



30 



Richmond 



252 



245 







5 



13 



580 



Rockland 







119 



Suffolk 



873 



1,406 



114 



125 



391 

 9 

 6 



373 

 9 

 6 



3,402 



Ulster 



273 



Westchester 



20 



21 







406 











Total 



2,010 



2,549 



271 1 270 



4,656 



4,522 



*506 



1,844 



*7,443 



9,185 











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



Table shoiving, by counties, the vessels, boats, and apparatus employed in the fisheries of New 



York in 1897 and 1898. 





Albany. 



Columbia. 



Dutchess. 



Items. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 





No. 



Val. 



No. 



Val. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



Boats 



19 

 5 



8430 

 370 



19 

 5 



8430 

 350 



25 



8 

 10 

 52 



8750 



775 

 406 

 270 



30 



5 

 10 

 60 



81, 182 



525 



406 

 274 



Ill 



3 



100 



76 



26 



84,815 



360 

 6,571 



284 



26 



1,665 



105 



6 

 97 



77 

 27 



84, 616 

 495 



Apparatus— shore fisheries: 

 Seines 



Gill nets 



6,296 



Fyke nets . 



60 

 12 



210 



15 



220 



54 

 12 



190 



15 



220 



300 



Eel pots 



27 



Shore property 





575 





650 



1,855 









Total 





1,245 



1,205 





2,776 





3,037 





18,721 





13,589 









Greene. 



Orange. 



Putnam. 



Items. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 



1897. 



1898. 





No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Value. 



No. 



Val. 



No. 



Val. 



Boats 



46 



11 

 17 

 40 



81, 146 



1,070 

 612 

 140 

 655 



55 



11 

 24 

 36 



81,269 



1,055 

 770 

 128 

 770 



37 



1 

 38 

 74 



81,707 



40 



2,320 



562 



750 



36 



1 

 30 

 70 



81,517 



40 



1,996 



548 



745 



7 



1 

 6 



8402 



40 

 430 



5 



1 

 4 



8272 



Apparatus — shore fisheries: 

 Seines 



45 



Gill nets 



320 



Fyke nets 





Shore property 





90 





60 









Total 





3,623 





3,992 





5,379 





4,845 





%2 



697 









