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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE Fls'ITED STATES. 



FISHERIES OF MAINE. 



Maine ranks first- among the New England States in the number 

 of persons engaged in the fisheries and related industries, but is 

 surpassed by Massachusetts in the amount of capital invested and 

 the quantity and value of fishery products. In 1919 the number of 

 persons engaged in the various branches of the fishery industry in 

 Maine was 14,386, of whom 1,004 were on vessels fishing, 339 on 

 vessels transporting fishery products, 5,332 in the shore or boat 

 fisheries, and 7,711 in the wholesale fishery trade, canning sardines, 

 and other fishery industries. 



The amount of capital invested amounted to SI 7,544,969, which 

 includes 351 fishing and transporting vessels, valued at $2,105,905, 

 with a net tonnage of 5.004 tons and outfits valued at $300,036; 

 5,849 power, sail, row, and other small boats, valued at $985,719; 

 fishing apparatus to the value of $1,259,031, of which gear to the 

 value of $165,051 was employed in the vessel fisheries and gear to 

 the value of $1,093,980 on boats; shore and accessory property to 

 the value of $11,864,571; and cash or working capital to the amount 

 of $1 ,029,707. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 147.956,369 pounds, 

 valued at $3,889,035. This represents 31.65 per cent of the total 

 quantity and 19.60 per cent of the total value of the products of the 

 fisheries of the New England States in 1919. Compared with 1905 

 there was an increase of 18.62 per cent in quantity and 62.96 per 

 cent in value to the fishermen. Compared with 1908 there was a 

 decrease of 14.89 per cent in the quantity and an increase in the 

 value of 19.40 per cent. Among the products of special importance 

 were the following: Lobsters, 5,545,884 pounds, valued at $1,411,548; 

 cod, fresh and salted, 14,078,389 pounds^ valued at $542,139; herring, 

 fresh, salted, and smoked, 86,813,876 pounds, valued at $462,506; 

 haddock, fresh and salted, 11,197,811 pounds, valued at $335,027; 

 and hake, fresh and salted, 16,113,635 pounds, valued at $329,483. 



FISHERIES BY COU-VTIE:^. 



Statistics as to number of persons employed, investment, and 

 products of the iisheries of Maine in 1919 are given by counties in 

 the following table: 



Persons Enoaged, Investment, and Products of the Fisheries of Maine in 



1919, BY Counties. 



