122 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Launce iramodytes americanus. 



Mackerel Scomber scombrus. 



Menhaden Brevoortin Ujrannus. 



Monkfish Lophius piscatoriiis. 



Minnows Various species small fishes. 



Perch, white Morone americana.' 



Perch, yellow Percafnvescens. 



Pickerel Esor. reficuln/Ais. 



Pollock PnlhicJiius rirfns. j 



Pompano Trachinotiis (species). 



Roselish Sebastes viarinus. 



Round herring Etrumcus teres. 



Salmon, Atlantic Salmo salor. 



Salmon, hmnpback Oncorhy nchus gorhuscha. 



Sculpins CottidcB (species). 



Scup Stenotomus chrysops. 



Sea bass Centropristcs striatus. 



o , . f Prionot us carolinus. 



bea robm \Prionotus strigatus. 



Shad Alosa sapidissima. 



Sharks .- All Selachii except Batoidej. 



Skates and rays r>atoidei (species). 



Smelt Osmerus mordax. 



Squeteague Cynoscion regalis. 



Striped bass Roccus lineatus. 



Sturgeon Acipenser sturio. 



Suckers Catostomida3 (species). 



Sunfish Centrarchidse (species). 



Swordfish Xiphias gladius. 



Tautog Tautoga onitis. 



Tilefish Lopholatilus chnmaciconticeps. 



Tomcod Microgadus tovicod. 



Tuna Thunnus thynnus. 



Whiting Merluccius bilinearis. 



Wolliish Anarhichas lupus. 



GENERAL STATISTICS. 



The fisheries of the New England States in 1919 gave employ- 

 mentto 30,767 persons, of whom G,346 were on vessels fishing, 

 533 on vessels transporting fishery products, 10,968 in the shore or 

 boat fisheries, and 12,920 shoresmen in the wholesale fishery trade, 

 canneries, smokehouses, oysterhouses, and other shore industries 

 connected with the fisheries. The number of persons engaged in 

 the fisheries of the different States follows: Mame, 14,386; Massa- 

 chusetts, 12,346; Connecticut, 2,289; llhode Island, 1,646; and New 

 Hampshire, 100. Compared with, the returns for 1905, the year for 

 which ihc last canvass was made by the Bureau, there has been a 

 decrease in the number of persons employed in all of the States of 

 6,572 persons, or 17.60 per cent. The decrease by States follows: 

 Massachusetts, 3,348 persons, or 21.33 per cent; Maine, 1,495 per- 

 sons, or 9.41 per cent; Connecticut, 1,118 persons, or 32.81 per cent; 

 Rhode Island, 566 persons, or 25.59 per cent; and New Hampshire, 

 45 persons, or 31.03 per cent. 



The total amount of capital invested in the fisheries and fishery 

 industries of these States in 1919 was $40,597,097. There has been 

 an increase of $18,066,377, or 80.18 per cent, in money invested in 

 the fisheries and fishery industries of the region since 1905. In 

 Maine the investment amounted to $17,544,969, an increase of 

 $8,572,920, or 95.55 per cent, as compared with 1905. In Massa- 

 chusetts the investment was $19,111,269, an increase of $8,300,827, 



