270 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: 



Oyster dredges or scrapes 



Crab dredges or scrapes 



Tongs 



Seines 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Apparatus: — shore fisheries: 



Seines (total length, 73.866 

 yards) 



Gill nets (total length, 938,888 

 yards) 



No. 



1,087 

 13,1(52 



332 

 10,508 



10,077 



Value. 



1650,275 



218.044 



428,285 



47,938 

 562,455 



65,306 

 475 

 560 

 415 

 5 

 776 



38,867 

 77,264 



Items. 



Appwiratus — shore fisheries — 

 continued. 



Pound nets 



Trap nets and weirs 



Fyke nets 



Trammel nets (total length, 

 6.504 yards) '... 



Minor nets 



Lines 



Eel pots 



Spears 



Oyster dredges or scraj)es 



Crab dredges or scrajjes 



Tongs 



Shore and accessory proi)erty. 

 Cash capital 



No. 



839 



17 



7,117 



31 

 833 



3,360 



50 



1.837 



2,687 



11,119 



Value. 



Total. 



180,340 



775 



23.108 



2.320 



1,915 



2, '233 



1,770 



113 



23.511 



9,819 



66.087 



1.878.669 



1. WO, 285 



5,821,610 



Table of products. 



Species. 



Ale wives, fresh . . . 

 Alewives. salted . . 

 Alewives, smoked 



Black bass 



Blue-fish 



Bonito 



Butter-fish 



Carp 



Cat-fish 



Cero 



Croakers 



Drum 



Eels 



Flounders 



Hickory shad 



King-fish 



Menhaden 



Mullet 



Perch, white 



Perch, vellow 



Pike..." 



Pompano 



Lbs, 



1 

 Value. ! 



727,199 



S?2,657 1 



408.900 



50.676 ' 



3.360 



120 , 



6.765 



613 1 



186.708 



7.156 



1.000 



60 1 



87,040 



2,348 1 



110. 925 



3,825 1 



578, 021 



19,644 



1,000 



50 



236,295 



2,889 



43,000 



386 



406.744 



14,684 



27,357 



1.097 



3,752 



53 



1,000 



35 



353.100 



365 



1.500 



60 



925.545 



49,963 



395. 735 



12,283 1 



114, 710 



8,919 



310 



35 



Species. 



Sea bass 



Shad, fresh 



Shad, salted 



Sheepshead 



Spanish mackerel 



Spots 



Squeteague 



Striped bass 



Sturgeon 



Suckers 



Sun-fish 



Crabs, soft 



Crabs, hard 



Shrimp 



Craw-fish 



O.vsters 



Ciams 



Turtles 



Terrapins 



Caviar 



Lbs. 



Value. 



5, 



^4, 

 -5, 



350. 



4 



16,200 



779.568 



20,000 



200 



9. 762 



2.928 



597. 179 



935. 347 



145, 569 



83.030 



4,000 



115,879 



333,316 



1,020 



2,908 



784.538 



122, 288 



5.465 



7.266 



1.594 



S690 



158.865 



500 



12 



833 



139 



14. 792 



70.046 



5.006 



1.801 



152 



177.637 



39,949 



510 



2G2 



2,885,202 



6,S42 



289 



3,226 



614 



Total 88,588,018 3,617,306 



1 12,347.637 in number. - 15.999,948 in number. s 7,254.934 bushels. * 15.'286 bushels. 



The catch of hard and soft crabs, clams, and oysters in Maryland 

 for 1897, which, for purposes of comparison, have been shown in the 

 genei*al products tables in pounds, are presented in the following table 

 in number and bushels: 



Products. 



No. 



Value. 



Crabs, hard 





number. . 



15, 999, 948 



12,347,637 



15,286 



7,2M,934 



839,919 



Crabs, soft 





do.... 



177,637 



Clams 





bushels. . 



8,842 



Ovsters 





do . . 



2,885,202 







THE FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 



The State is divided by the Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna 

 River, which flows into its head waters, into two great sections. In 

 the eastern part of the State there are 9 counties, all of which are 

 interested in the fisheries. These are Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne, Tal- 

 bot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester. They 



