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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Table showing apparatus, vessels, boats, and capital employed in United States fisheries — Continued. 



THE PRODUCTS. 



General statement. — The annual value of products of tbe United States fisheries, 

 excluding those of the minor inland waters, for which no data are available, is about 

 $45,223,000, a sum representing the iirst value of tbe catch, or the amount received 

 by the fishermen. By the processes of canning, salting, smoking, and otherwise pre- 

 serving the products, their value, as they are ready for the consumer, is probably not 

 less than $150,000,000. Tbe weight of the products as they leave tbe hands of tbe 

 fishermen is about 1,500,000,000 pounds; in tbe case of such products as oysters, clams, 

 and scallops the weight assigned is that of the edible part. 



Tbe .Middle Atlantic States, owing to the large production of oysters, easily take 

 tbe lead in the value of tbe products, followed by tbe New England, Pacific, Great 

 Lakes, Gulf, and South Atlantic regions, in tbe order named. The value of the Middle 



