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per cent. 1 During the period the number of men em- 

 ployed at sea has decreased twenty per cent ; the number of 

 men employed on shore increased ninety per cent, or from 

 7,205 in 1880 to 13,114 in 1905. 



The value of products taken and sold by the fishermen of 

 the United States in 1905 was approximately $56,250,000. 

 The number of persons who made a living in the industry 

 was 232,000, and the capital invested was above $82,000,000. 

 The individual value that the fisheries of the United States 

 gave in 1905 was $213 per person. The New England 

 fisheries compare favorably with other sections of the 

 country; their value is one-fourth the total value of the 

 country's fisheries and the individuals employed receive 

 seventy-five per cent more returns for their labor than 

 do the fishermen of other parts of the country. Whatever 

 may be the future of our country's fisheries, there can 

 never be elsewhere in the United States an industry more 

 honored upon the land and more glorious upon the sea than 

 the New England deep-sea fisheries. 



i The status of the New England fisheries, 1880 and 1905. 



