THE LOBSTER FISHERY. 749 



cipally used as bait. The catch is sold both to the canneries and to well smacks, and a few 

 lobsters (about 3,000 annually) are consumed locally. 



MILLBRIDGE. About twelve men from this place engage in lobsteriug from April to August, 

 setting from fifty to one hundred pots each, or an average of seventy-five pots, and fishing in 

 depths of 3 to 15 fathoms. The men go singly, sometimes having a boy with them to help, and 

 generally use the so-called " reach boats," measuring 15 to 16 feet in length. In 1879 the average 

 daily caitch to seventy-five traps was stated to be about 700 pounds of lobsters, and in 1880, 500 

 pounds. About one-sixth of the catch, weighing on an average 2| pounds each, was sold to the 

 Boston smacks at 3 cents apiece. After July or August all of the lobstermen engage in hand-line 

 fishing for cod, hake, pollock, &c. 



CANNERIES. Four lobster canneries are located in this district, as follows: Jonesboro', estab- 

 lished in 1867, and owned by Buruham & Morrill ; Jouesport, established in 1863, and owned by 

 William Underwood & Co.; Cape Split, Addisou, established in 1879, and owned by the Portland 

 Packing Company ; Millbridge, established in 1861, and owned by J. Winslow Jones & Co. The 

 Jonesport cannery puts up mackerel and clams as well as lobsters, but the other three canneries 

 are entirely limited to lobsters. 



SMACKS. Only one registered smack, the Havelock, of Jonesport, is owned in this district. 

 It is a well sloop, of 32.97 tons measurement, is valued at $1,500, and has a crew of two men. It 

 engages in carrying lobsters from Grand Mauan and the coast of Maine to the Jouesport cannery 

 and to Boston. 



Summation of the lobster fisheries in Machias district in 1880. 



Number of fishermen 232 



Number of marketmen 2 



Number of vessels above 5 tons bnrrlen 1 



Value of same $1, 670 



Number of boats 1 200 



Value of same $6,030 



Number of lobster pots 8, 251 



Value of same $6,188 



Total amount of capital invested in the fishery $13, 888 



Number of barrels of bait used 4, 330 



Value of same $2,165 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the market smacks and to the local fresh trade, in pounds. 107, 950 



Value of same $3,958 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the canneries, in pounds 2,474,300 



Value of same $24,743 



Total quantity of lobsters taken and sold, in pounds 2,582,250 



Value of same to the fishermen $28, 701 



Summation of the lobster canneries in Machias district in 1880. 



Number of canneries 4 



Value of buildings and fixtures $11,650 



Additional cash capital required $26,748 



Number of boats 8 



Value of same $1,200 



Total capital invested $39,598 



Average number of men employed 58 



Average number of women and children employed 71 



Average number of smackmen employed 12 



Total number of persons employed 141 



Number of pounds of live lobsters used 2,474,300 



Amount paid to the fishermen for the same $24,743 



Number of 1-ponnd cans of lobsters put up 438, 624 



Number of 2- pound cans of lobsters put up 24, 144 



Enhancement in value of lobsters in process of canning $32,986 



Value of the canned lobsters $57,729 



