FYKE NETS AND FYKE-NET FISHERIES. 
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Products. 
Pounds. Value. 
Burlington. 
Pounds. Value. 
Pounds. Value 
Alewives 
Black bass 
Carp 
Cattish 
Eels 
Shad 
Striped bass 
Suckers 
Sunfish 
Weak fish 
White perch 
Yellow perch 
Miscellaneous fish . 
Terrapin 
Total 
Alewives 
Black bass 
Bluefish 
Butter-fish 
Carp 
Catfish 
Eels 
Flounders 
Menhaden 
Scup 
Sea bass 
Shad 
Spots 
Striped bass 
Suckers 
Sunfish 
Tautog 
Weaktish 
White perch 
Yellow perch 
Miscellaneous fish 
King crabs 
Terrapin 
96, 550 
1, 000 
2, 000 
21 , 340 
13 , 855 
3,750 
4,785 
27 , 675 
6,475 
$483 
140 
160 
1,707 
970 
3,750 
’ i ,’ 666 
$250 
”" 70 ’ 
1, 000 
124 , 000 
2 , 700 
13 , 050 
11 , 680 
2,200 
130, 959 5,-206 
Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value, 
Total . 
12 , 500 
" 2,400 
500 30 
17,400 850 
29. 167 
2, 100 
1, 100 
4 , 000 
2.900 
6, 000 
4.900 
Pounds. Value. 
1 , 500 
2,300 
5,000 
1,400 
Pounds. Value 
97, 350 
1,000 
1,000 
3 , 000 
2, 000 
21,340 
66 , 255 
85 , 900 
29, 167 
2, 100 
1, 100 
144 , 250 
6,500 
14 , 935 
27 , 675 
6 , 475 
5 , 200 
12 , 500 
26 , 009 
11 , 680 
4,400 
20, 000 
1,848 
591 , 684 
1,367 
3,487 
53 
1,641 
2, 214 
518 
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PENNSYLVANIA. 
This State abuts on two important rivers tributary to Delaware and Chesapeake 
bays/respectively, and on one of the Great Lakes, and fishing with fyke nets is or has 
been prosecuted in each of these three bodies of water. The river fishery will be con- 
sidered in this place, and the lake fishery in the chapter relating to the Great Lake 
basin. Pennsylvania ranks fifth among the States of this region as regards the extent 
of its fyke-net fishery; although a large number of nets are used, they are mostly of 
small size and the average catch per net is low. The fishery in the Delaware River is 
much more important than that in the Susquehanna; more men are employed, more 
nets are operated, and more fish are caught. In the Susquehanna, however, the nets 
are more costly and the average yield is greater. 
The principal kind of fyke used in this State, in the Delaware River, is the drop 
fyke, which has already been described. It is particularly numerous in Philadelphia 
County, where the fishery is triore important than that in any other county. The fykes 
are usually set from skiffs carrying one or two men, and are generally placed, about 
16 feet apart, in strings. The outfit of a boat is from 10 to 100 nets. Almost the 
