778 



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11 per cent more than in 1924, the most recent year for which records 

 are available prior to 1928. Of the total number of fishermen em- 

 ployed dming 1928, 5,649 regular fishermen were engaged on vessels, 

 and 9,233 regular and 1,777 casual fishermen were employed in the 

 shore and boat fisheries. Their catch amounted to 603,598,050 

 pounds, valued at $25,619,904. This is an increase of 48 per cent 

 in the catch and 36 per cent in the value of the catch as compared 

 with the quantitv and its value for 1924. Of the total catch in 

 1928, 561,103,967 pounds, valued at $18,103,467, were fish, and 

 42,494,083 pounds, valued at $7,516,437, were shellfish and miscella- 

 neous products. 



Based on the value to the fishermen, haddock with a production 

 of 237,707,820 pounds, valued at $7,047,591, was the most important 

 product. Lobsters were second with a production of 11,603,979 

 pounds, valued at $3,413,881. Other products of importance were 

 cod, 90,335,557 pounds, valued at $2,955,603; flounders, 50,274,092 

 pounds, valued at $2,259,077; mackerel, 42,722,006 pounds, valued 



at $2,185,462; oysters, 9,373,249 

 pounds of meats, valued at 

 $1,883,663; and all varieties of 

 clams, 7,750,280 pounds of meats, 

 valued at $1,220,086. Other prod- 

 ucts were valued individually at 

 less than $1,000,000. 



The industries related to the 

 fisheries of the New England 

 States gave employment to 7,885 

 I^ersons, of whom 382 were en- 

 gaged in transporting fishery prod- 

 ucts, 3,057 were in the wholesale 

 trade and received $4,639,058 in salaries and wages, and 4,446 were in 

 the prepared-products and by-products trade and received $3,657,086 

 in salaries and wages. There were 302 establishments in the wholesale 

 fish trade hand-products and 154 estabfishments were in the prepared- 

 products and by-products trade. The latter manufactured products — 

 mostly canned sardines, clams, and other canned fishery products — to 

 the value of $16,934,487. In addition, individual fishermen m the 

 New England States prepared fishery products valued at $162,154. 

 Most of these products were salt fish prepared from the various 

 species of ground fish. 



Fisheries of the New England Slates, 1928 



FiGUKE 14.— Yield of principal fishery products 

 the New England States, 1928 



