FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES, 
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Statement htj counties, apparatus, and species uf the yield of the shore fisheries of Delaware — Coutinued. 
Apparatus and 
species. 
Sussex. 
Total. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
PouikU, I Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
rounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pyke nets : 
'Cattish 
Eels 
2,000 
$100 
2,800 
$140 
21,400 
6,300 
8,350 
1,050 
1,650 
250 
4,800 
$1,284 
339 
502 
32 
193 
10 
94 
22,200 
6,200 
11,670 
1,001 
1,440 
200 
2.380 
$1,312 
337 
647 
61 
167 
8 
59 
22.000 
6,300 
12,430 
925 
1,430 
200 
2,570 
.$1,292 
337 
707 
50 
172 
8 
67 
Perch 
Shad 
Striped bass 
4,(101) 
l,0.j0 
400 
$280 
32 
60 
7,470 
1,001 
300 
433 
61 
45 
8,430 
025 
400 
497 
50 
60 
Other fish 
Total 
Cast nets: 
4,800 
94 
2,380 
59 
2,570 
67 
10,250 
466 
13,151 
698 
15.125 
814 
43,800 
2,454 
45,091 
2,591 
45,855 
2,633 
9,300 
560 
9,600 
578 
9,400 
566 
Pots : 
Eels 
Lobsters 
Total 
Spears : 
Eels 
Lines: 

91, .100 
7,200 
3,715 
300 
86,800 
8,200 
3,440 
410 
91,420 
5,600 
3,644 
285 
99,800 
7,200 
4,225 
360 
97,300 
8,200 
4,070 
410 
102,220 
5,600 
4,289 
285 
98,500 
4,075 
95,000 3,850 
97,020 
3,929 
107,000 
4,585 
105,500 
4,480 
107,820 
4,574 
120.000 
4,560 
120,000 4,560 
125,600 
4,784 
120,000 
4,560 
120,000 
4,560 
160,600 
6,009 
5,000 
600 
31,500 
1,500 
5,000 
330 
36 
795 
180 
200 
5.000 
600 
26,300 
1,800 
8.000 
330 
36 
630 
216 
320 
5,000 
600 
18,060 
1,800 
8,300 
330 
36 
404 
228 
332 
: 
Squeteague 
16,500 
495 
11,000 
330 
4,800 
144 
Tautog 
Total 
Miscellaneous : 
Oysters 
clams 
Crabs, horseshoe 
Crabs, soft 
Terraxiins 
Turtles 
Total 
Grand total . 
5,000 
200 
8,000. 
320 
8, .300 
332 
21,500 
695 
19,000 
650 
13,100 
476 
43. 600 
1,541 ! 41,700 
1,532 
33,700 
1,330 
102,900 
10,040 
5,550 
1,811 
81,200 
19,520 
5,280 
1,854 
143,780 
18,960 
7,790 
1,807 
748,300 
21,600 
760,000 
108,375 
14,800 
21,000 
28,175 
2,067 
665 
5,970 
2,740 
1,470 
684,040 
21,920 
740,000 
86,250 
11,988 
18,000 
26,484 
2,094 
617 
4,713 
2,190 
1,260 
859,054 
21,240 
1,049,200 
115,475 
11,638 
19,000 
33,372 
2,035 
918 
6,878 
2,136 
1,295 
108,375 
9,800 
8,000 
5,970 
1,660 
560 
86,250 
10,000 
8,000 
4,713 
1.740 
560 
115,475 
9,860 
7,500 
6,878 
1,710 
490 
248,115 
15,551 
204.970 
14,147 
295,575 
18,675 
1,674,075 
41,087 1,562,198 
37,388 
2,075,007 
46,634 
2, 315, 393 
72,783 
1,738,441 
65,981 
1,703,896 
69,083 
9,622,623 |i 221,910 7,284,649 
211,773 
6,826,418 
210,362 
StaUstics of special industries . — The following table show.s the extent of the 
wholesale oyster-opening- trade of Seaford, located on the 1ST anticoke Eiver, a tributary 
of Chesapeake Bay. While the business is small as compared with that in the 
adjoining State of Maryland, it is quite important in proportion to the general extent 
of the fishing industry of Delaware. 
Summary of the oyster-packiny industry of Delaware. 
Designatiou. ! 1890, 
1891. 
4 
267 
■liin, 100 
$20, 800 
$28, 181 
270, 800 
$148, 940 
174, 444 
$184, 704 
4 
251 
$19, 100 
$20, 000 
$24, 275 
228, 600 
$125, 7.30 
155, 000 
$166, 275 
Cash cajiital 
Oysters utilized bushels.. 
Opened oysters sold gallons.. 
The business of preparing fertilizer from king crabs or horseshoe crabs is engaged 
in by one firm located in Kent County. Five or six men are regulax-ly employed in making 
the scrap. The extent of this industry is shown for four years in the following table: 
Summary of the king-oral) industry of Delaware. 
Items. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
200, 000 
$700 
10(1 
$2, 850 
190. 000 
$665 
94 
$2, 800 
185, 000 
$647 
97 
$2, 900 
262, 300 
$918 
134 
$4,020 
