392 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Vessels, bouts, apparatus, shore property, and cash capital employed in the fisheries of Pennsylvania. 
Designation. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
IN’ umber. 
Value. 
Number. 
Value. 
Nifiiiber. 
Value. 
Number. 
Value. 
Vessels fishing 
56 
$103,350 
51 
$93, 650 
47 
$84, 900 
37 
$68, 125 
1, 388 
1,270 
1, 194 
957 
19, 005 
19 895 
19, 410 
16 835 
Vessels transporting 
2 
700 
2 
3, 000 
2 
2 , 875 
3 
3,350 
42 
26 
26 
33 
Outtit 
135 
120 
110 
130 
Boats 
850 
30, 950 
837 
31,046 
837 
30, 652 
817 
29, 535 
Ajiparatns — vessel lisheries : 
Dredges 
208 
0, 210 
188 
5, 675 
164 
5, 035 
132 
4,025 
156 
176 
206 
136 
Apparatus — shore tisheries ; 
Seines 
153 
20,185 
151 
19, 130 
151 
19, 405 
141 
18, 750 
Gill nets 
220 
22, 340 
219 
22, 320 
209 
21,450 
205 
21, 200 
Fvke nets 
3,611 
5, 523 
2,583 
5, 384 
2, 534 
5, 264 
2, 532 
5,219 
410 
412 
427 
398 
501 
494 
488 
416, 970 
440, 410 
450. 162 
495 420 
298, 640 
295i 600 
303, 750 
312, 400 
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Total 
928, 075 

937, 285 
944, 140 
976,011 
Products of the fisheries of Pennsylvania. 
Specie.s. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
Pounds. 
Yaluen 
Pouuds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Y alue. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Alewives 
1, 989, 085 
$13, 325 
2. 447.500 
$13, 894 
2, 331,775 
$13, 449 
2, 059. 015 
$12, 144 
Black bass 
22, 015 
2,278 
21, 125 
2, 190 
22, 885 
2. 368 
21, 743 
2,242 
Carp 
3,295 
177 
3, 435 
180 
3, 800 
199 
3, 784 
197 
Codlish 
147, 771 
7, 038 
142,217 
6,690 
132, 468 
6, 223 
134, 650 
6, 293 
Eels 
41, 762 
2. 249 
42, 545 
2. 258 
40,950 
2, 174 
44, 085 
2, 305 
Perch, white 
7, 160 
413 
7, 068 
402 
6, 020 
341 
6. 170 
343 
Perch, yellow 
10,415 
685 
13, 160 
705 
12. 625 
674 
12, 308 
468 
Pike 
8, 805 
813 
5,520 
777 
4, 975 
697 
5,481 
777 
Sea bass 
614. 420 
24, 140 
802, 600 
28, COG 
947, 500 
33, 805 
901. 564 
37. 555 
Shad 
2, 752, 572 
125,717 
2, 898. 551 
131,226 
2, 692. 864 
128, 274 
1. 996, 482 
110,200 
Strawberry bass 
987 
89 
750 
70 
880 
80 
1, 050 
102 
striped bass 
24, 360 
2, 374 
22. 805 
2. 233 
24, 615 
2,406 
23, 352 
2, 320 
Stm'geon 
63, 750 
750 
58, 650 
810 
52, 700 
640 
60, 180 
728 
Suckers 
53, 895 
2,568 
48, 105 
2, 369 
42, 550 
2, 115 
43, 570 
2, 213 
Other tish 
87, 165 
4, 394 
85. 825 
4, 339 
83, 350 
4, 156 
84, 414 
4,294 
Oysters 
'T,. 337, 420 
137, 520 
f 1, 249. 290 
131,450 
;i, 183, 700 
124, 420 
§926, 660 
101,850 
Total 
7, 165, 777 
324, 530 
7,849,206 
328, 199 
7, 583, 657 
322, 021 
6, 324, 508 
284, 031 
* 191,060 bushels. 1 178,470 bushels. ; 169,100 bushels. § 132,380 bushels. 
Statistics of the fisheries hij comities . — Two counties iu Peuusylvaiiia on the 
Susquehamia River aucl seven on the Delaware River have coiiiniercial tisheries. 
The following tables indicate the extent to which each of these was interested in 
the tishing industry in 1890, 1891, and 1892, 
The counties bordering on the Delaware River, viz, Bucks, Delaware, Monroe, 
Philadelphia, and Pike, had a fishing population in 1892 of 1,585, and those on the 
Susquehanna — Lancaster and York — had 635. Of the former number, 940 were iu 
Philadelphia County. Lancaster County had 471 and Bucks County 438 joersons, all 
of whom were shore fishermen. 
The capital invested in the fishing industry of the counties bordering on the 
Delaware River was $963,570, of which $916,485 was credited to Philadelphia County. 
The value of the fishery investment on the Susquehanna River was $12,441. All the 
vessels in the State belong in Philadelphia County, which also has rather important 
fishing carried on with seines, gill nets, and fyke nets. Seines and gill nets, however, 
are used in larger numbers in Bucks County than elsewhere, while fykes are more 
numerous in Philadelphia County than in all the remainder of the State. 
