340 Fisuinc is American WATERS. 
Brought forward............. depdirasanssweusnrasdswremesn es Peatans $12,000 00 
1500 bbls. herring oil, $30.... 45,000 00 
8000 quintals dried cod, $3.... 24,000 00 
20,000 quintals dried pollock, B2........ccceccecceece see eeeeeeeeeeee 40,000 00 
10,000“ #6, hakes, Bi) SO sccissswnodivnnntncvavawsenei ts 15,000 00 
BOO bse liver ior, R80: cies sekesniacanncateassseusecesguncsesnrssegins . 15,000 00 
3000 bbls. pickled cod, B4.......ce cc ceeeeeeeees eerie saath . 12,000 00 
5700 ¢ ee herrings, $4 22,800 00 
1200 ‘“ -  Safnckerel, Sh savssrcavevsesyacvea ein awcnwusses 18,000 00 
500 Sf ne MACMOCK sO 50s, saw ateouine daessveneiowencosesicen 1,250 00 
$205,050 OU 
The foregoing statement is made by Captain 8. Treat, of 
Eastport, and is an average annual catch for the past five 
years to 1868. ; 
WHOLESALE FISH DEPARTMENT OF FULTON MARKET, 
This includes fourteen establishments confined to the pur- 
chase and sale of food-fishes. ‘The average annual sales 
by each is $150,000. Aggregate .........0.:cccessceeseseceesees $2,100,000 00 
In addition to these sales, they employ one hundred and eleven 
fishing-smacks, the average annual catches by each amount- 
ing to $12,000, or an aggregate Of. ........cceesecosseeececee eee 1,332,000 00 
$3,432,000 00 
SCOLLOPS. 
The trade in scollops is annually increasing, but, like the other 
vast water-fields of Crustacea, the business is still embryotic 
and the trade undeveloped. East Greenwich, R. I., sup- 
plies 100 gallons daily for half the year, or 18,200 gallons 
AbD COD US sims auissiseboiene seloiveh sae sae eetoie ueeoeousanseseaemeas anne 18,650 00 
Southport, Matatuck, Cutchogue, and Jamesport, on Long Isl- 
and, supply in the aggregate six months 18,200 gallons at 
TS CONS... ..60ee0e Se ve 
13,650 00 
$27,300 00 
SOFT-SHELL CLAMS. 
Comstock & Co., of Fulton Market, sold last year 3,250,000 for $8000. Jt 
is estimated that this is about one sixth of the aggregate annual sale in 
the United States, which would render the sum total............. $48,000 00 
I could not get an estimate on the business done in hard 
clams, though it is nearly or quite as large as that in soft 
shells, 
SMELTS. 
Trade in*smelts is confined to six months, or to the inclement 
season of the year, for which time the sales in Fulton Mar- 
ket averaged 1,352,000 at 16 cents........ccccecees samba seisletet $216,320 00 
