460 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
wlieie ill the region. Tlie values of the fishery iu the remaining States were $70,579 
in Maryland, $53,679 in Xew Jersey, $13,170 in Virginia, $6,061 in Delaware, and 
$6,659 in Pennsylvania. The most imiiortant fish taken were eels, flounder s, catfish, 
strijied bass, white perch, yellow perch, and shad, in the order named. The small 
quantities of king crabs and terrapins taken in fyke nets and of lobsters obtained 
with pots are not included in these figures. 
Persons, apparatus, and boats emploijed in the fyke-net and eel-pot fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States. 
States. 
No. of 
persons. 
Fyke nets ami eel 
pots. 
Boats. 
Total 
invest- 
ment. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
New York 
New Jersey 
Pennsylvania 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virginia 
Total 
1, 071 
307 
60 
76 
764 
92 
21, 954 
5,362 
2, 534 
2, 342 
14, 994 
449 
$69, 474 
18, 125 
5, 264 
2, 045 
42, 937 
6, 865 
" 1, 026 
1278 
59 
69 
564 
71 
$31, 958 
11,087 
1,604 
985 
9, 256 
1,255 
$101, 432 
29, 212 
6, 868 
3,030 
52, 193 
8, 120 
2,370 47,635 144,710 
2,067 56,145 
200, 855 
* Includes one vessel valued at $700. 1 Includes two vessels valued at $1,650. 
Products of the fyke-net and eel-pot fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States. 
Species. 
New York. 
New Jersey. 
Pennsylvania. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Alewives 
Bluelish 
32, 320 
28, 350 
43, 200 
77, 945 
1, 006, 451 
1, 064, 180 
48, GOO 
048, 000 
20, 555 
40, 500 
8, 100 
32, 790 
$404 
1, 134 
648 
3, 198 
61,651 
26, 488 
1. 172 
810 
1,453 
810 
405 
2,073 
200, 350 
1,000 
3,000 
33, 505 
355, 380 
88, 100 
1,400 
29, 167 
85, 389 
2, 100 
1, 100 
147, 024 
6, 500 
12, 500 
35, 760 
45, 450 
5, 200 
$1,011 
50 
150 
2,625 
20, 944 
3, 597 
42 
53 
6, 626 
105 
53 
6, 071 
265 
515 
6,350 
3, 576 
184 
5, 075 
$26 
Butter-fisli 
Cattisli 
Eels 
82, 025 
27, 400 
3,482 
1,386 
Erostfish or tomcod 
Perch 
4, 350 
257 
Shad 
475 
25 
112, 970 
16, 305 
16, 708 
18, 125 
97, 200 
45, 614 
3, 480 
2,000 
895 
805 
243 
1, 235 
Striped bass 
Suckers and mullet 
Tautogor blackflsb 
970 
19, 450 
96 
978 
Other fish 
Total 
18, 925 
1, 462 
6,950 
409 
3, 357,913 
108, 904 
1,071, 910 
53, 679 
146, 695 
6,659 
Species. 
Delaware. 
•Maryland. 
Virginia. 
Total. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
240, 200 
$1,716 
8, 300 
$163 
486, 245 
29, 350 
46, 200 
566, 492 
2, 112, 871 
1, 168, 180 
50, 000 
677, 167 
564, 279 
106, 244 
42, 600 
9, 200 
247 227 
53 ! 705 
206, 069 
192, 922 
143,015 
23, 325 
97, 200 
163, 083 
$3, 320 
1, 184 
798 
23, 682 
114, 497 
30, 833 
1,214 
863 
28, 047 
7,218 
915 
458 
10, 436 
2, 090 
6, 598 
19, 075 
7, 154 
989 
243 
6, 038 
22, 200 
103,500 
$1,312 
4, 407 
313, 225 
CIO, 140 
11, 755 
25, 784 
37, 532 
4, 000 
15, 900 
1,310 
325 
748 
Eels 
11, 670 
647 
411,578 
106, 244 
17, 919 
7,218 
30, 737 
1, 145 
Pike 
Shad 
1,001 
61 
28, 487 
3, 110 
2,450 
101, 633 
50, 223 
1, 023 
147 
98 
7, 420 
1,397 
37, 450 
44, 095 
78. 149 
36, 814 
10, 984 
1, 183 
1,678 
2, 505 
3. 042 
300 
Striped bass 
1, 440 
200 
167 
8 
2, 380 
59 
63, 314 
2, 102 
25, 900 
771 
Total 
142, 391 
6. 661 
1. 936. 604 
76, 579 
329, 861 
13. 170 6, 985, 374 
265, 652 
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