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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Rani- and value of principal fishery products. — The principal fisheries have in 

 the following- table been arranged in four groups based on the value of the catch. 

 Sixty fisheries or special products have an annual valuation of over $35,000. Nine of 

 these are worth more than $1,000,000; between $500,000 and $1,000,000; 25 between 

 $100,000 and $500,000, and 17 between $35,000 and $100,000. 



The 9 fisheries which yield over $1,000,000 represent nearly three-fourths of the 

 total output of the United States fisheries. They include 4 fisheries prosecuted on 

 both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, 4 that are peculiar to the Atlantic seaboard, and 

 1 that is confined to the west coast. The chief among them, the oyster, is worth over 

 $16,000,000, or more than one-third the value of the entire industry. The Pacific 

 salmon fishery ranks second; it is worth about $3,700,000. The Atlantic cod fishery 

 and the whale fishery have a valuation of over $2,000,000. The other fisheries in this 

 group are the shad, clam, mackerel, lobster, and haddock. 



The leading product in the second class is the halibut, valued at about $874,000. 

 Five other products included in this group are marine or coast animals, viz, sque. 

 teague, menhaden, bluefish, alewives, and crabs, and the remaining three belong in 

 the Great Lakes, viz, the herring or cisco, the whitefish, and the lake trout. 



Of the 25 products having a value between $100,000 and $500,000, the sponges 

 head the list. Tn this division are found such well known fisheries as the fur-seal, 

 shrimp, mullet, hake, sea bass, herring, sturgeon, striped bass, eel, scup, snapper, 

 Spanish mackerel, smelt, sheepshead, channel bass, pike perch, scallop, etc. 



The fourth group embraces most of the remaining fisheries of general or local im- 

 portance. Among the fisheries now having a valuation of less than $100,000 and more 

 than $35,000 are the herring, rockfish, smelt, and sea-otter fisheries of the Pacific coast; 

 and the pollock, swordfish, tautog, pike, and black bass fisheries of the east coast. 



Table showing rank and value of the 60 most important fisheries or special products of the United States. 



Rank. 



Fisheries. 



LO 



11 

 12 

 13 



14 



15 

 16 



17 



18 



19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 

 27 

 28 

 29 



I. Over $1,000,000. 



Oyster 



Pacific salmon 



Atlantic cod 



Whale 



Shad 



Clam 



Mackerel 



Lobster 



Haddock 



77. From $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



Halibut 



Sqneteague. 

 Menhaden . . 

 Bluefish 

 Crab 



Lake herring; . . 



Alewii'e 



Lake whi terisb 

 Lake trout 



III. From $100,000 to $500,000. 



Sponge 



Pike perch and pike (Great Lakes)' 



Fur-seal 



Shrimp and prawn 



Mullet 



Hake 



Sea bass 



Atlantic herring 



St urgeon 



Strip-"! bass or rocktish 



Eel 



Value. 



$16, 152, 257 

 3,710,250 

 2, 856, 225 

 2,141,738 

 1,879,688 

 1, 690, 536 

 1, 102,651 

 1, 050, 677 

 1,045,814 



873, 910 

 708. 830 

 693, 808 

 637, 305 

 572, 147 

 561,703 

 554, 740 

 518,891 

 507, 950 



438, 682 

 417,038 

 396, 627 

 389,297 

 387. 916 

 367. 636 

 356, 803 

 329, 298 

 271, 328 

 259, 474 

 255, 801 



Rank. 



30 

 31 

 32 

 33 

 34 

 35 

 36 

 37 

 38 

 39 

 40 

 41 

 42 

 43 



Fisheries. 



III. From$ 100,000 to $500,000— Con- 

 tinued. 



Flatfish 



Scup 



Atlantic yellow and white perch*. 



Catfish .'. 



Scallop 



Red snapper 



Pacific cod 



disk 



Spanish mackerel 



Spot and croaker 



Atlantic smelt 



Yellow perch (Great Lakes) 



Sheepshead 



Channel bass or redfisli 





/ I'. From $85,000 to $100,000. 



44 

 45 

 46 

 47 

 48 

 49 

 50 

 51 

 52 

 53 

 54 

 55 

 56 

 57 

 58 

 59 

 60 



Pacific herring 



Pollock 



Alligator 



Terrapin 



Suntish 



Alga; 



Pacific rockfish 



Pacific, smelt 



Swordfish 



Butterfish 



Tautog 



I'ompano 



Turtle 



Atlantic pike 



( Ictopus and squid. 



Black bass 



Sea otter 



Value. 



$249, 095 

 205, 421 

 197, 863 

 178, 758 

 172, 983 

 147, 744 

 140, 466 

 136, 215 

 129, 259 

 128, 852 

 122, 115 

 113,260 

 101, 925 

 100, 386 



I 



99, 262 

 90, 109 

 77,010 

 76, 243 

 72, 139 

 69, 231 

 61,310 

 59, 629 

 56. 525 

 50, 765 

 47, 900 

 47, 631 

 47, 475 

 43, 328 

 40, 691 

 38, 949 

 38, 370 



Species can not be satisfactorily separated. 



