120 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ExTEXT OF Fisheries of the Gulf States, Various Years, 1880 to 1918 — Contd. 



Item. 



1902 



1918 



PERSONS ENGAGED. 



Florida (west coast) . 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



4,068 

 618 

 1,721 

 4,06S 

 1,277 



5,011 

 789 

 2, .565 

 4,403 

 1,199 



6,416 

 1,098 

 4,344 

 5,027 

 1,144 



6,016 

 895 

 1, 561 

 5, 152 

 1, 780 



5,161 



783 

 2, 867 

 4,191 

 1,S,S6 



Total 



11, 



13, 967 



18, 029 



1 15, 404 



14, 888 



INVESTMENT. 



Florida (west coast). 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



, 369, 294 

 135, 290 

 434, 710 

 719, 876 

 319, 122 



$1, 149, 262 

 165, 189 

 518, 301 

 513, 813 

 237,4% 



Total I 2, 978, 292 



2, 584, 061 



PRODUCTS.^ I 



Pounds: 



Florida (west coast ) I 27, 418," .562 



Alabama ! 4, 776, 968 



Missis.sippi j 8, 131,401 



Louisiana ' 20,789,203 



Texas 7, 9.59, 400 



28, 255, 219 

 4, 699, 381 

 7.8'29,C,S5 



17, 401,7SS 

 7, 174, 550 



Total 69,075,534 65,360,623 



Value: 



Florida (we.st coast) SI, 064, 139 



Alabama 154, 871 



Mississippi 245, 699 



Louisiana 660, 134 



Texas 313, .832 



Total 2,438,675 



$944, 793 

 134, 438 

 192, 298 

 713, 587 

 286, 610 



$1, 945, 320 



328, 285 



1, 270, 408 



789, 723 



373, 724 



81,884,000 

 262, 000 

 461, 000 

 841, 000 

 454, 000 



4, 707, 460 



' 3, 902, 000 



4,S120,019 



9, 351, 447 



23,4?f.,965 



24, 7.54, 135 



8, 044, 404 



37, 566, 000 

 9, 91.S, 4.50 

 17,3n2,000 

 42, 302, (KK) 

 10, 439, 000 



113,696,970 117, .527, 450 



SI, 462, 166 

 266, 682 

 553, 220 

 .8.58, 314 

 35:3, 814 



$2, 120, 000 



358, 000 



459, 000 



1, 448, 000 



440. 000 



2, 271 , 726 3, 494, 196 I 4, 831, 000 



$2,401,245 



3:i4, 741 



1, 433, ,585 



1, 475, 188 



890, 100 



6, 537, 859 



54, 7.53, 6.39 

 5, 609, 219 

 20,. 592, 089 

 24, 953, S76 

 25, 014, 760 



130, 923, 583 



S3, 420, 363 



2150, .567 



7ii2, 770 



1,41 '.J, 367 



677, 243 



6,510,310 



' Exclusive of persons and investment in canneries, packing houses, and other establishment <;. 



2 The quantity and value ot' products given for Florida for 1888 in the report of the Division of Statistics 

 and Methods of the Fisheries for 1919, page 137. include both coasts of the State, and those for Al il^u'iia 

 for 1908 include the Tennessee River district. 



FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES IN 1919. 



The statistics of the coast fisheries of the New England States 

 presented in this report are for the calendar year 1919 and have 

 oeen published in summarized form in Statistical Bulletin No. 497.'^ 



Included in this report are statistics of the sardine industry of 

 Maine for 1919 and 1920 and the salmon fishery of the Penobscot 

 River and Bay for 1918, 1919, and 1920. 



EARLIER PUBLICATTONS. 



Some of the previous publications containing statistical informa- 

 tion on the fisheries of the New England vStates and published in 

 Washington, D. C, follow: 



1873. Report on the Conditions of the Soa Fishorics of the South <!oast of New Eng- 

 land in 1S71 and 1872. By Spencer K. Baird. Report, U. S. Commission 

 of Fish and Fisheries, 1871 and J872 (1873), p. i-xli. 



1887. The Coast of >raine and Its Fisheries. By R. Edward Earll. In The Fish- 

 eries and Fishery Industries of the United States, by G. Brown Goode et al., 

 Sec. II, Pt. I, p". .5-102. 

 The Fisheries of New Hampshire, liv W. .\. Wilcox. Ibid., Sec. II, Pt. II, 

 p. 103-112. 



"The statistical data were collected by Winthrop A. Roberts, Rob Leon Greer, .\ndrew J. Messner 

 Walter H. Rich, Lawrence T. Hopkinson, and Frea F. Johnson, statistical agents of the Bureau. 



