FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1934 165 



Fisheries of Connecticut, 1933 — Continued 

 SEED OYSTER FISHERY: By counties 



Item 



Fairfield 



New Haven 



OPERATING UNITS 



Fishermen: 



On vessels 



On boats and shore, casual 



Total ..: 



Vessels: 



Steam 



Net tonnage 



Motor 



Net tonnage 



Sail 



Net tonnage 



Total vessels 



Total net tonnage 



Boats: 



Motor.- 



Other 



Apparatus: 



Dredges 



Yards at mouth 



Tongs 



Rakes.- 



CATCH 



Oysters: 



Seed, public, spring 



Seed, public, fall 



Seed, private, spring 



Total 



Number 

 51 

 150 



Number 

 42 

 4 



2 



140 



10 



113 



2 



17 



1 

 105 



158 



14 

 270 



9 

 263 



75 

 64 

 94 

 46 



Bushels 

 26, 863 

 39, 563 



74,817 



141, 243 



Value 



$10, 745 

 15,825 

 41,099 



Bushels 

 3,600 

 3,600 

 132, 368 



67, 6C9 



139, 568 



Value 

 $1,440 

 1,440 

 28, 518 



31,398 



Note. — Of the total number of persons fishing for seed oysters, 126 are duplicated among those fishing for 

 market oysters or other species. Similarly the following craft and gear are duplicated: 78 boats other than 

 motor, 80 tongs, and 46 rakes. 



VESSEL FISHERIES AT PRINCIPAL NEW ENGLAND PORTS 



Due to the importance of the ports of Boston and Gloucester, Mass., 

 and Portland, Maine, as landing points for fishery products, detailed 

 monthl}^ statistics are collected for these landings which are published 

 in the following section. These landings are included in the catch 

 by States appearing elsewhere in this document, but also are presented 

 here for their value in detailed form. 



ECONO.MIC ASPECT 



The landings of fishery products at the three principal New England 

 ports (Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Maine) by vessels 

 of 5 net tons capacity or more, during 1933 amounted to 267,157,218 

 pounds as landed, valued at $6,850,901. This is an increase of 6 per- 

 cent in the quantity of the catch as compared w^th 1932, and an in- 

 crease of 13 percent in the value of the catch. Of the total landings 

 99 percent consisted of fresh fish and 1 percent salted fish. The 

 landings at Boston accounted for 232,583,049 pounds, valued at 

 $6,093,604, or 87 percent of the total landings. The landings at 

 Gloucester amounted to 21,736,997 pounds, valued at $441,937, or 8 

 percent of the total. Landings at Portland amounted to 12,837,172 

 pounds, valued at $315,360, or 5 percent of the total landings. 



Among the landings of fresh fish, haddock far outranked other 

 species, in volume landed, the amount of all sizes in 1933 being 

 129,847,257 pounds, or 49 percent of the total fresh fish. 



