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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



fully half of the entire number, while those of Booth Bay proper, North Booth Bay, and Westport, 

 have been extensively engaged iii the work. 



PRESENT CONDITION OF THE BOAT AND VESSEL FISHERIES. The fishing fleet at present 

 numbers sixty-three sail, sixty of them being actively employed. Nearly half of the fleet are 

 engaged in the shore fisheries, the remainder being employed in the offshore fisheries for cod and 

 mackerel. 



There are in the district cue hundred and forty-six boat-fishermen. These spend a greater 

 part of their time in the capture of "ground-fish," though some of them are extensively interested 

 in the lobster fishery, which is fairly important. 



STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION FOR 1880. The following table gives u detailed statement of 

 the fishing interests of the district: 



Summary statement of persons employed and etijiital invested. 



Persons employed. 



X umber. 



Capital invested. 



Amount. 



H r of vessel-fishermen 

 Xuiubi r of boat-fislnTriHii 

 Number of rurrrs. packers, fitters, i 

 Number ( f factory-bands 



Tut.il 



SGI Capital in vessels and boats $227,020 



14G Capital in neta and traps 23, 5SG 



87 Other fixed and circulating capital | a 159, 237 



Total ... 



410,443 



821 



a Other j'.xcd and circulating capital. Cash capital. $28,000; wharves, shore-houses, and fixtures, $39,100; factory buildings and apparatus, 

 $92.137 (of this amount $S?,367 is for menhaden oil and guano factories not used since 1878); total, $159,237. 



Detailed statement of capital invested in ret-mls, boats, nets, and traps. 



Detailed statement of the quantities and rallies of tlie products. 



