FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
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The yield of the shore fisheries of New Jersey iu 1892 was 49, .883, 552 pounds, with 
a value of $2,352,024, Seines took 0,442,059 pounds, valued at $153,030; gill nets, 
8,945,006 pounds, valued at .$508,484; fyke nets and bag nets, 820,025 pounds, valued 
at $39,639; pound nets, trap Jiets, and weirs, 10,002,007 pounds, valued at $194,919; 
lines, 10,568,243 pounds, valued at $404,092; jiots, 247,900 i)ounds, valued at $15,005; 
dredges, tongs, rakes, etc., 11,.549,952 xiounds, valued at $963,147, including crabs, 
lobsters, shrini|)s, terrapins, and turtles; other minor aiiparatus, 200,500 pounds, 
valued at $12,508. 
Considering fish xiroper, it is seen that pound nets, trail nets, and weirs take larger 
quantities than any other class of axqiaratus, squeteague constituting more than half 
the quantity and value of the yield. Next to the imund nets in quantity of catch and 
greatly surpassing them in value of products are hand and ti’awl lines, the bulk of whose 
yield consists of bluefish and sea bass. Gill nets come next in quantity of fish taken, 
and suiqiass all other ajiparatus in value of i)roducts, shad being the only important 
species thus taken. Seines are -fourth iu respect to both quantity and value of the 
yield, and have as the most prominent fish shad, striped bass, alewives, yellow xierch, 
and squeteague. Shad, fiounders, alewives, perch, and eels form the larger part of the 
fyke-net catch, and have more value than all the other fish. 
Seines are most im))ortant in Ocean and Cape May counties, gill nets in Salem and 
Cumberland counties, jamnd nets in Monmouth and Ocean counties, fykes in Burling- 
ton and Hudson counties, and lines iu Monmouth and Cape May counties. 
Statement bi/ counties, apparatus, and species of the yield of the vessel fisheries of New Jersey. 
Apparatus ami 
species 
Atl.antic. 
Burlington. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
i^ounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines: 
87,000 
4,702,410 
$113 
7,700 
Menhaden 
Total 
Lines : 
■1,350,000 
$9,062 
2,400,000 
$5,000 
1,800,000 
$4,500 
7,067,100 
$10,600 
4,350,000 
9,062 
2,400,000 
1,700 
83.500 
48,000 
2,000 
5,00'' 
1,800.000 
4,500 
7,067,100 
10,600 
4,789,410 
7,813 
1 
5,200 
80,660 
58,000 
2,000 
•260 
1,460 
2,900 
100 
85 
2,890 
2, -100 
100 
2,000 
79.000 
53.000 
3,200 
100 
3.600 
2,300 
160 
Cod 
! 
1 
i.- 
Total 
t 
131,800 
4,720 
135,200 
.5,475 
137,200 
6,160 
1 
1 
Miscellaneous : 
Oysters, market. 
Oysters, seed. . . . 
1 
55,604 
134,960 
46.800 
9,417 
5,836 
4,797 
38,962 
131,950 
51,896 
1 
6,057 1 77,700 
4,905 ! 139,825 
5,640 39,616 
i 
10,075 
5.116 
4,457 
17,500 
750 
17,500 
1 750 
1 
1 1 
Total 
Grand total. 
' 
237,024 
20.050 
222,808 
17,202 257,141 
19,6^ 
17,500 
760 
17,500 
1 750 
1 1 
4,719,284 
33,832 
2,758,008 
27,677 2,194,341 
30,308 1 
7,084,600 
11,350 
4,800,910 
8,503 
Apparatus and 
species. 
Cumberland. 
1 Gloucester. 
1S90. 
1891. 
1892. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
Pounds. Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds.! Value. 
Pounds.' 
Value. ^ 
?*ounds. 
Value. 
Lines : , 
Sea bass | 9.0011 : $:!09 
10,000 
$300 
i 

Dredges, rakes, 1 
and tongs: I 
Oysters. market. 3,937,513 
Oysters, seed ... -J, 3-19, 275 
573.718 
198,058 
772,670 
3,092,696 
4,sl7,827 
$577,661 
228,600 
4,185,580 
5,887,105 
649,6.50 
291,965 
8,400 j $900 
17,500 875 
■ 


17.. 500 
$875 
Total 
Grand total. 
8,300,788 
8,510,523 
806,207 
10,072,685 
941,615 
25,900 1,775 
17,500 1 
875 
8,315,788 
773,030 
8,510,523 
800,267 
10,082,685 , 941,915 
25,900 , 1,775 
1 
17, ,500 j 
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