FOREST. FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



Number gas and steam vessels employed 

 Tonnage of gas and steam vessels 

 Value of gas and steam vessels 



Value of outfit 



Number of sail vessels employed 

 Tonnage of sail vessels 

 Value of sail vessels 

 Value of outfit . 

 Number of other boats employe! 

 Value of other boats 

 Value of outfit . 

 Number tongs used 

 Number dredges used . 

 Number hands employed 

 Amount paid in wages 

 Value of shore property 

 Bushels market oysters produced 

 Bushels seed oysters produced 

 Bushels seed oysters planted 

 Bushels seed oysters sold . 

 Value seed oysters sold 

 Value market oysters sold 

 Bushels clams produced 

 Value of clams sold 

 Principal market 



si 5 



5 



12 



2 9 4 

 $58,000 



9 . 850 

 18 



2 °5 

 200 

 500 



44 

 $2 , 530 



2 45 

 121 



66 



151 



$39,650 



5,000 



350,000 



3 , 000 



2 7<55° 



300 



$180 



301 , 000 



22 , 000 



S46 . 500 



New York. 



Pecoxic Bay axd Vicinity. 

 By act of Legislature in the year 1884, the jurisdiction of the lands 

 under water in Gardiner's and Peconic bays, so far as the shellfisheries are 

 concerned, was granted to the count}' of Suffolk. These waters have been 

 found to be wonderfully well adapted to the cultivation of shellfish and, 

 especially during the last few years, the industry has made a very rapid 

 growth. Seed matures here with comparative rapidity, and the excellent 

 stock produced has attracted many large planters from a distance and com- 

 panies have been formed and equipped for working these lands. A very 

 large part of the territory available for this business has already been appro- 

 priated. A considerable proportion of this stock is carried directly from 

 Greenport to the New England States, quantities of the oysters being 



