FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
453 
Apiiaratiis, vessels, boats, and shore property employed in the moUuscan fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States, 
Value of 
Vessels lisliiug. 
Vessels transporting. 
Boats (shore). 
Floats 
and 
shore 
property. 
Total 
investment. 
States. 
appara- 
tus. 
No. 
Value. 
Value of 
outfit. 
No. 
Value. 
Value of 
outfit. 
No. 
Value. 
New York 
$119,912 
516 
$391, 270 
$55, 682 
41 
$f4, 100 
.$5, 710 
4, 819 
$318, 985 
$144, 500 
$1, 080, 159 
New Jersey . . 
Pemisylvauia. 
62, 919 
5, 035 
496 
41 
479, 070 
73, 650 
100, 545 
11,525 
55 
70, 250 
7, 036 
2, 918 
185, 292 
106, 380 
1. 078, 122 
90, 210 
Delaware 
2, 522 
25 
21, 525 
3, 390 
16 
13, 250 
1,975 
112 
1,746 
2, 860 
47, 268 
Maryland 
192, 626 
1,223 
877, 505 
325, 658 
399 
569, 000 
59, 190 
6, 692 
516, 849 
21,330 
2, 562, 178 
Virginia 
75,511 
707 
385, 160 
132, 875 
212 
242, 895 
29, 421 
6, 974 
412, 030 
18, 500 
1, 296, 392 
Total . . . 
158, 555 
3,008 
2, 228, ISO 
635, 675 
723 
939, 495 
103, 932 
21,515 
1, 434, 902 
353, 590 
6, 154, 329 
Products of the molluscan fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States. 
Species. 
New York. 
New Jersey. 
• Pennsylvania. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Oysters 
Quahogs or hard clams 
Soft clams or long clani.s 
2,611,062 
565, 565 
150, 550 
2. 100 
60. 565 
372 580 
$2, 748, 509 
650, 621 
105, 891 
900 
48, 340 
15, 950 
2,302, 081 
431, 753 
82, 700 
SOO 
$1, 639, 648 
371, 933 
47, 700 
200 
169, 100 
$124, 420 
Total 
3, 771, 422 
3,570,211 2,817,134 
2, 059, 481 
169, 100 
124, 420 
Species. 
Delaware. 
Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Total. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Oysters 
Quahogs or hard clams 
2, 740 
.$70, 134 
2,094 
9, 945,058 
18,470 
$5,295,866 
8, 226 
0, 162, 086 
69, 910 
$2,524,348 
36,030 
21, 346, 107 
1, 088, 438 
233, 250 
2, 700 
69, 565 
372, 580 
$12,402,925 
1.068,904 
153,591 
1,100 
48,340 
15,950 
Sliells*^ 
Total 
159, 460 
72, 228 
9, 963,528 
5,304,082 
6, 231, 996 
2,500,378 
23,112,640 
13,690,810 
THE OTSTER INDUSTRY, 
The following series of tables illustrates the extent of the most important branch 
of the fishing’ industry of the Middle Atlantic region. In the consideration of the 
general molluscan fisheries, the oyster fishery was included, but no separate figures 
for the persons and for the vessels, boats, and apparatus were given, and the shore 
industry connected with the fishery was not shown. 
It appears from the first table that 00,631 x>ersons were engaged in this industry, 
of whom 13,192 were vessel fishermen, 29,479 boat fishermen, 2,418 transporters, and 
15,542 shore employes. In each of these items Maryland held the first rank, and the 
total for the State was 32,104. 
The capital invested in the oyster industry was $13,047,094, of which more than 
half, or $0,097,302, is to be credited to Maryland. The 2,839 fishing vessels employed 
were valued, with their outfits and apparatus, at $3,018,003, and the 723 transporting- 
vessels had a value of $1,039,802. The value of the 17,830 boats used in the shore 
fisheries was $1,222,356, and the apparatus emiiloyed in connection with the boat 
fishing had a value of $189,118. 
The output of the oyster fishery was 21,340,107 bushels, valued at $12,402,925. 
The yield in the vessel fishery was 9,468,150 bushels, valued at $5,614,368, and in the 
shore fishery 11,877,951 bushels, having a value of $0,788,557. TLe shore fishery was 
more imimrtant than the vessel fishery in Xew York, Maryland, and Virginia. In the 
