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Yield op Shore Fisheries of Massachusetts ix 1919, by Counties, Apparatus, 



AXD Species — Continued. 



BY BOW NETS, FYKE NETS, HARPOONS, COCKLE TRAPS, AND CUNNER TRAPS. 



WITHOUT APPARATUS. 



INDUSTRIES. 



Wholesale fishery trade. — In 1919 there were 139 wholesale fishery 

 establishments in Massachusetts, valued at $2,928,405, with a cash 

 capital amounting to $1,522,545, in which 1,468 persons were engaged, 

 to whom 81,790,495 were paid in wages. 



Five of these firms engaged in the manufacture of oil and fertilizer 

 incidental to their wholesale business. The auantity of fish oil manu- 

 factured amounted to 56,250 gallons, valued at $60,147, and of fer- 

 tilizer to 324,750 pounds, valued at $2,000. 



SmoJced, canned, and by-product industries. — In the appended table 

 the statistics of the smoked, canned, and by-product industries of 

 Massachusetts in 1919 are shown in detail. The quantity of fish 

 smoked, salted, and pickled amounted to 12,807,782 pounds, valued 

 at $863,927, the principal items being finnan haddic, 4,506,216 

 pounds, valued at $352,692, and salted and pickled herring, 3,299,950 

 pounds, valued at $100,530. The pack of canned products amounted 

 to 52,474 cases, valued at $362,926, and the value of the by-products 

 was $1,050,317. 



