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In the Oyster Fisheries of Maryland as many as 600 

 vessels of about 23 tons each are engaged, in addition to 

 2000 small boats or canoes. These employ about 7000 

 men, and if we add those engaged in the carrying trade, it 

 would give the number of persons employed in the oyster 

 trade of the State of Maryland as at least 10,000, all 

 obtaining remunerative employment, (n) 



According to the Statistical Summarv bv Professor 



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G. B. Goode, (o) the Oyster Fisheries of the United States 

 employs 52,805 persons, and yielded in 1880 22,195,370 

 bushels, worth to the producer 9,034,861. There is to be 

 considered an enhancement on 13,047,922 bushels in 

 passing from producers to market. This enhancement, 

 which amounts to $4,368,991, results either from replanting 

 or from packing in tin cans, and increases the value of the 

 products to 13,438,852. This fishery employs 4155 vessels 

 valued at 3,528,700, and 11,930 boats valued at 708,330. 

 The value of gear and outfit amounts to 712,515. The 

 value of shore property amounts to 5,633,750. The total 

 capital invested in Oyster Industry is 10,583,295. The 

 actual fishermen number 38,249, the shoresmen 14,556. 

 About 80 per cent, of the total yield is obtained from the 

 waters of Chesapeake Bay. 



For every man engaged in the fisheries there is at 



least one other man who is dependent to a considerable 



extent upon his labours for support. To the class of 



"shoresmen' belong (i) the capitalists, who furnish 



(n) " The Harvest of the Sea," p. 263. 



(o) "The Fishery Industries of the United States," by G. Brown 

 Goode, M.A., Assistant Director of the U.S. National Museum, and 

 Commissioner to the International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. (Papers 

 of the Conferences held in connection with the Great International 

 Fisheries Exhibition. William Clowes & Sons, London.) 



