FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 791 



Industries related to the fisheries of Maine, 1928 

 TRANSPORTING 



WHOLESALE FISHERY TRADE ' 



PREPARED FISHERY PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS 2 



Items 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages 



Number 



147 



96 



2,776 



$257, 909 

 1,446,226 



1, 704, 135 



Products 3 



Salted ^pounds.. 



Smoked do 



Canned: 



Sardines standard cases <.. 



Clam products do — 



Miscellaneous fishery products 



■ ._ standard cases *.. 



By-products: 



Scrap, meal, etc tons.. 



Herring oil gallons.. 



Cod liver oil, crude do 



Other products 5 



Total 10,291,561 



Quantity Value 



7, 263, 150 

 5, 071, 264 



2, 055, 763 

 164, 856 



60, 176 



6,383 

 166, 055 

 47,232 



$400, 197 

 472, 308 



8, 076, 546 

 599, 671 



353, 988 



173, 903 

 57, 974 

 36, 667 



120, 307 



PRODUCTS PREPARED BY THE FISHERMEN 



Items 



Fresh: 



Livers. -. 



Sounds. . 



Spawn... 



Tongues. 

 Salted: 



Alewives 



Cod 



Pounds 



240, 475 



500 



31, 737 



1,730 



125,800 

 36, 910 



Value 



$4,804 



15 



1,506 



35 



3,452 

 1,873 



Items 



Salted— Continued 



Cusk_ --- 



Hake 



Mackerel 



Pollock 



Smoked: Alewives. 



Total 



Pounds 



614, 054 



Value 



21,030 



1 Includes 2 firms in Rockingham County, N. H. 

 - Includes a small quantity of fish smoked in New Hampshire. 



3 Includes the production of 21 firms whose activities were principally in the wholesale fishery trade. 

 * A standard ease contains one hundred 34-pound cans of sardines, 48 No. 1 cans of clam products or 

 forty-eight 1-pound cans of miscellaneous canned fishery products. 

 ' Includes herring skins and scales, tanners oil, and kelp products. 



