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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Yield of the Shore Fisheries op New Hampshire in 1919, by Apparatus and 



Species. 



wholesale fishery trade. 



There were only 2 wholesale fresh-jfish establishments in Rocking- 

 ham County in 1919, valued at $7,540, using cash capital to the amount 

 of S5,500 and employing 12 persons, to whom $12,678 were paid in 

 wages. 



FISHERIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



The fisheries of Massachusetts in 1919 were more productive than 

 those of all the other Now England States combined. The number of 

 persons employed was 12,346, of whom 4,459 were on fishing vessels, 

 66 on vessels transporting fishery products, 3,737 in the shore and 

 boat fisheries, and 4,084 shoresmen in the wholesale plants, canneries, 

 salteries, smokehouses, by-products plants, and other shore establish- 

 ments. 



The investment included 421 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued at $6,192,118, having a net tonnage of 16,838 tons and out- 

 fits valued at $1,860,766; 3,040 power, sail, row, and other small 

 boats, valued at $949,683; apparatus employed in the vessel and 

 boat hsheries to the value of $1,205,518; shore and accessory prop- 

 erty valued at $7,000,239, and cash capital to the amount of $1,902,945, 

 making a total investment of $19,111,269. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 246,951,241 pounds, 

 valued at $10,859,746. The most important species arranged in the 

 order of their value were: Cod, 69,496,325 pounds, valued at $2,992,- 

 793; haddock, 78,178,384 pounds, valued at $2,208,211; common 

 mackerel, 13,516,194 pounds, valued at $1,322,409; lobsters, 2,387,- 

 636 pounds, valued at $516,393; flounders, 10,262,693 pounds, 

 valued at $478,850; pollock, 19,242,541 pounds, valued at $469,943; 

 and scallops, 1,332,486 pounds, or 222,081 bushels, valued at $439,382. 



Compared with the Bureau's returns for 1905 there has been a 

 decrease in the number of persons employed of 3,348, an increase in 

 the investment amounting to $8,300,827, a decrease in the quantity 

 of products taken amounting to 8,703,234 pounds, and an increase in 

 the value amounting to $3,834,497. The species for which there has 

 been a notable increase in 1919 as compared with 1905, with the 

 amount of increase follow: Flounders, 6,219,010 pounds; squid, 

 5,348,807 pounds; whiting, 9,618,960 pounds; lobsters, 1,104,565 

 pounds; scallops, 1,069,249 pounds; and hard crabs, 1,704,961 

 pounds. Those for which there has been a marked decrease as com- 

 pared with 1905 are: Alewives, 1,673,820 pounds; cusk, 5,877,991 

 pounds; hake, 16,605,435 pounds; hahbut, 1,796,447 pounds; and 

 herring, 7,553,045 pounds. 



