256 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. | 



Table of apparatus and capital. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries: 



Lines 



Dredges 



No. 



36 

 639 



4 

 118 



504 



83 



Value. 



862,800 



19,690 

 8,400 



865 

 21,485 



91 

 2,500 



Items. 



Apparatus — shore fisheries: 



Seines(total length 23, 617 yards).. 



Gill nets( total length 65,337 yards) 



Fyke nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Dip nets 



Other apparatus 



Shore and accessory property 



Cash capital 



Total 



No. 



125 



177 



1,120 



125 

 110 



Value. 



$12, 921 



9,711 



1,508 



81 



90 



320 



390 



828, 576 



632,100 



1,601,628 



Table of products. 



Species. 



Ale wives, fresh , 

 Alewives, salted 



Black bass 



Blue-fish 



Carp 



Cat-fish 



Eels 



Flounders 



Salmon 



Scup 



Sea bass , 



Shad 



Lbs. 



Value. 



143,503 



$1,297 



278,832 



1,586 



4,103 



418 



12,800 



321 



114,950 



6,695 



120,096 



6,985 



51,794 



4,273 



31,545 



792 



414 



81 



29,150 



719 



900,000 



36,000 



2,007,325 



63,587 



Species. 



Striped bass . . . 



Sturgeon 



Suckers 



Sun-fish 



Wall-eyed pike 



Oysters 



Terrapins 



Turtles 



Frogs 



Total 



Lbs. 



9,656 



9,945 



• 25,250 



1,010 



528 



* 1,861, 538 



826 



1,021 



78 



5,604,263 



Value. 



$991 



260 



1,244 



26 



66 



143,974 



98 



78 



16 



269,507 



* Represents 265,934 bushels. 



THE FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 



There are eight counties in the eastern part of Pennsylvania which 

 maintain fisheries: Lancaster and York counties on the Susquehanna 

 River, and Pike, Monroe, Northampton, Bucks, Philadelphia, and 

 Delaware counties on the Delaware River. In the counties on the 

 Susquehanna River 346 persons were employed; the investment was 

 $8,610, and the products, principally shad, were valued at $15,872; 

 while in the counties bordering on the Delaware River 1,552 persons 

 were employed, $1,592,918 invested, and the products were valued at 

 $253,635. The species in the counties on the Delaware River having 

 the greatest value were sea bass, shad, and oysters. 



The fisheries of Philadelphia County are the most extensive. They 

 gave employment to 952 persons, a larger number than were employed 

 in all the other counties combined. The amount of capital invested 

 was $1,499,948, and the products aggregated 3,443,772 pounds, valued 

 at $200,776. The whole of the vessel fisheries of this section of the 

 State and a considerable part of the shore fisheries are centered in 

 this county. The large investment, as compared with other coun- 

 ties, is due chiefly to the extensive wholesale trade of the city of 

 Philadelphia. 



The fisheries of Bucks County are next in importance. The num- 

 ber of persons employed was 378, the investment was $65,655, and the 



