FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
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Tlie products of the tislieries of this region may be classified as general food-tish, 
inollnsks, crustaceans, reptiles, and menhaden utilized for oil and guano. The extent 
of the tislieries for each of these classes is given in the folloAving table. Avhich shows 
that the yield of the mollnscan fisheries was $13,0!>2,443; thegeiieralfood lislitish- 
eries, $4,11)4,484; the menhaden fishery, $015,829; the crustacean fisheries, $408,448; 
and the reptilian fisheries, $52,270. 
The inollnsks are the most important inodncts in all the States except Penn- 
sylvania and Delaware, in whii.h food-fish are most prominent. Maryland holds the 
first place in the value of inollnsks and crustaceans, New Jersey leads in the value 
of its fisheries for fish proper, New York takes precedence in the value of its men- 
haden fishery, and Virginia occniiies the first rank for reptilian fisheries. 
Classiftcaiioii of the products of the fisheries of the A/iddie Atlantic States. 
1 States. 
General food-fish 
tislierie.s. 
Oyster and other niollus- 
caii tislieries. 
Crustacean fisheries. 
rovtnds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
New York 
N’e'w Jersey 
23,882.317 
U, 555, 512 
(i, 3'li), 957 
5, 847. 251 
32, 747, ,537 
31, 182, 424 
$923, 226 
1,337,052 
197, 001 
173, 555 
760, 425 
802, 025 
41,448, 432 
20, 401, .591 
1,183,7011 
1, 118, 960 
69, 783, IGi; 
43. 893, 880 
$3, 571, 844 
2, 059, 481 
124, 420 
72, 228 
5, 304. 092 
2, 560, 378 
094. 159 
3,485,455 
$26, 694 
65, 476 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virginia 
834, 450 
7,821, 184 
2,894,880 
5, 770 
308, 3.71 
62, 137 
Total 
134, 394, 998 
4,191,484 
177, 009, 7-J9 
13.692, 443 
15, 530, 088 
408, 448 
States. 
Keptilian fisheries. 
ilenhadon fishery. 
Total. 
Pound.9. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
A'alue. 
104, 880, 114 
21), 670, 542 
$295, Ct)5 
56, 974 
170, 885, 022 
79, 116, 3S0 
7, 583. 657 
7, 097, 649 
141, 177. 827 
183,993, 834 
.$4, 817, 389 
3, 520, 0,57 
322, 021 
255, 423 
8. 460, 759 
3,647,845 
New Jersey 
3, 280 
.■{11,074 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virs^inia 
Total 
29, 9,SH 
■ 93.840 
2G2. 336 
3,450 
22, 584 
25, 182 
07, 000 
30, 952, 120 
105, 980,334 
420 
05, 307 
197, 523 
389, 444 
52, 270 
262, 530,110 
015, 829 
590. 454, 369 
19, 023, 474 
Considerable general interest attaches to the relative (jnantities of fishery products 
destroyed or sacrificed by the different kinds of apparatus employed. In the following 
table the (piantity and value of the catch with each principal class of appliances are 
shown, and in a supplementary table tlie facts disclosed by tlie first table are reduced 
to the basis of percentage. In every State, except Delaware, dredges, tongs, and 
other similar apparatus employed in taking shellfish are the most important means 
of capture. Of the remaining forms of apparatus, lines are the most prominent in 
New.Tersej’; seines in New York, Pennsyhuiuia, and Maryland; gill nets in Delaware, 
and pound nets in Virginia. 
Considering the entire region, the order of rank based on value of catch is (1) 
dredges, tongs, etc., (2) seines, (3) gill nets, (4) lines, (5) x>ound nets, trap nets, and 
weirs, (0) miscellaneous apparatus, (7) fyke nets, and (8) pots. The figures for seines, 
gill nets, }iound nets, fyke nets, iiots, and lines refer only to fish luoper, while the 
crustaceans and other luoducts taken with these aiipliances apjiear under miscella- 
neous axii^aratus. 
