FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



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3,226,983 pounds valued at $85,152. Alewives, blue-fish, white perch, 

 striped bass, and sturgeon were also taken in large quantities. 



The products taken with other kinds of apparatus are also noteworthy. 

 The catch obtained by vessels with hand lines was 12,000 pounds of 

 blue-fish and sea bass valued at $420; and by boats with hand lines 

 and trot lines, 224,750 pounds of fish valued at $8,535; soft crabs, 

 248,127 in number, valued at $1,518; hard crabs, 15,349,248 in number, 

 valued at $38,049; and 2,025 pounds of turtle valued at $131, the total 

 value of the catch with lines being $48,653. The quantity of fish in 

 fyke nets was 961,024 pounds valued at $33,645; of terrapin 3,837 

 pounds valued at $1,693, and of turtle 3,440 pounds valued at $158; 

 the total catch of all species being 968,301 pounds valued at $35,496. 



A variety of minor nets, consisting chiefly of dip nets, bow nets, ter- 

 rapin nets, crawfish nets or dredges, turtle pots, and sunken fyke nets, 

 was also operated, obtaining 103,519 pounds of fish valued at $3,508; 

 hard and soft crabs 1,194,534 in number, valued at $19,366; shrimp 

 1,020 pounds valued at $510; crawfish 2,908 pounds valued at $262; ter- 

 rapin 3,209 pounds valued at $1,333; the total value being $24,979. 

 The quantity of eels caught by vessels with eel pots was 61,000 pounds 

 valued at $2,440, and by boats with eel pots and spears 245,295 pounds 

 valued at $8,600, a total of 306,295 pounds valued at $11,040. In 

 trammel nets 57,590 pounds of fish, principally white perch and striped 

 bass, were taken, having a value of $3,539. The apparatus of capture 

 employed in the vessel fisheries of the State was not so varied nor the 

 products obtained so valuable as in the shore or boat fisheries. The 

 aggregate value of the products of the vessel fisheries was $967,364, 

 and of the shore fisheries $2,649,942. 



Following are tables showing by counties the quantity and value 

 of all species taken by vessels and boats with each apparatus in 1897: 



Table showing, by counties, the seine catch of Maryland in 1897. 



Species. 



Anne Arundel. 



Baltimore. 



Calvert. 



Caroline. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Shore fisheries: 

 Alewives, fresh ... 

 Blue-fish 



41,000 

 11, 715 

 28,000 

 13,600 

 12,750 

 8,525 



8246 

 471 

 1,420 

 562 

 443 

 321 



67,800 



8193 



62,500 



375 



1,100 



6,000 



8313 



24 



44 



244 



170,708 



8991 



Carp 



35,000 



23,050 



2,400 



5,400 



1,050 



468 



48 



112 



920 

 4,680 



21 



- Cat-fish 



152 



Croakers 





Eels 



300 



500 



3,775 



2,000 



14 



24 



151 



65 



800 



32 



Flounders 





'■ Perch, white 



, Perch, yellow 



^ Pike 



12,630 



14,800 



725 



11,200 



44,025 



17,400 



700 



1,800 



4,000 



717 



479 



61 



280 



1,741 



1,270 



19 



72 



250 



15,205 

 34,700 



9,300 

 11,600 



1,800 

 43,450 



3,700 



784 

 747 

 860 

 290 



54 

 2,875 



69 



14,500 



4,490 



410 



190,939 



532 



201 



31 



Shad, fresh 



SqueteagTie 



21,200 



530 



5,542 



Striped bass 



Sue iers 



6,000 

 700 



360 

 21 



1,770 

 950 



140 

 30 



» Sun-fish 





! Crabs, soft 















Terrapin 







220 



200 





















Total 



222,870 



8,352 



253,405 



7,550 



104,670 



1,990 



390,167 



7,672 







