FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 825 



Fisheries of the New England Slates, 1879 lo 1928 — Continued 



SUMMARY: By States 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars; that is, 000 omitted) 



Year 



1880.. 

 1887.- 



1889. 



Maine 



New Hamp- 

 shire 



Quantity Value Quantity 

 2,742 



131,380 2,3(i5 



132,930 2,292 



129, .560 2,111 



1898 1 123,405! 2,655 



1902. 

 1905. 

 1908- 

 1919. 

 1924. 

 1928. 



242,390i 2,919 

 124,724 2,386 



173,843 

 147,956 

 116,707 

 123, 326 



3,257 

 3,889 

 4,137 

 4,231 



4,255 



3, 843 



4,355 



3, 021 



1,593 



1,036 



677 



529 



447 



239 



Value. 

 171 

 99 

 90 

 89 

 49 

 50 

 52 

 53 

 93 

 56 

 45 



Massachusetts 



Quantity 



299, 544 

 302, 046 

 299, 218 

 202, 258 

 230, 646 

 255, 655 

 244,313 

 246, 951 

 243,363 

 380, 169 



Value 

 7,960 

 6, 464 

 6, 356 

 5, 858 

 4,464 

 6,482 

 7, 025 

 7,095 

 10, 860 

 10, 799 

 15, 649 



Rhode Island 



Quantity 



45, 28, 

 91,68 

 127,365 

 32, 854 

 21,614 

 23, 896 

 44, 254 

 48, 251 

 20, 535 

 27, 666 



Value 



697 



684 



825 



935 



955 



1,156 



1,547 



1,752 



3,296 



,1,819 



2,398 



Connecticut 



Total 



Quantity 



39, 750 

 42, 402 

 92, 672 

 31,920 

 37,832 

 74, 973 

 66, 942 

 23, 653 

 25, 770 

 72, 198 



Value] 



933 



301 



297 



1,558 



1,559 



1,799 



3,174 



2,982 



1,701 



2,007 



3,297 



Quantity 



520,214 

 572, 908 

 6.53, 170 

 39:i, 458 

 534, 075 

 480, 284 

 530, 029 

 467, 340 

 406, 822 

 603, 598 



Value 

 12, .503 

 9, 913 

 9, 860 

 10, 551 

 9,682 

 12, 406 

 14, 184 

 15, 139 

 19, 8.39 

 18,818 

 25, 620 



VESSEL FISHERIES AT PRINCIPAL NEW ENGLAND PORTS 



ECONOMIC ASPECT 



The landings of fishery products at the principal New England 

 ports (Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Me.) by vessels 

 of 5 net tons and over during 1929 amounted to 327,096,327 pounds, 

 as landed, valued at $13,051,704. This exceeded the amount landed 

 and value of the landings for any year for which records are available. 

 Increased landings are due to the larger landings of haddock, mack- 

 erel, and hake. Of the total landings, 99 per cent consisted of fresh 

 fish and 1 per cent of salt fish. The landings at Boston accounted 

 for the bulk of those landed at the three ports in 1929, amounting to 

 255,721,954 pounds, valued at $10,736,653, or 78 per cent of the total. 

 This is an increase over 1928 of 17 per cent in amount and 22 per cent 

 in value. Landings at Gloucester in 1929 amounted to 53,879,975 

 pounds, valued at $1,708,596, or 17 per cent of the total. This is an 

 increase of 29 per cent in amount and 16 per cent in value compared 

 with the amount and value of the landings in 1928. At Portland, 

 17,494,398 pounds of fishery products, valued at $606,455, were 

 landed. This was 5 per cent of the total landings at the three ports, 

 and a decrease of 1 per cent in amount and an increase of 7 per cent 

 in value compared with the landings in 1928. 



Species landed. — Among the landings of fresh fish, haddock far out- 

 ranked other species in volume landed, the amount of all sizes in 1929 

 being 187,203,733 pounds, or 58 per cent of the total fresh fish. 

 This is an increase of 21 per cent over the amount landed in 1928. 

 Of the total haddock landed, 58 per cent were taken from Georges 

 Bank, 34 per cent from South Channel, 5 per cent from Browns Bank, 

 and the remainder (except for 3,117,170 pounds which were taken off 

 Canada) were taken from various other banks off the United States. 



Cod was of next importance, although a very poor second. The 

 landings of all sizes of this species fresh amounted to 49,522,884 

 pounds, or 15 per cent of the total amount of fresh fish landed at the 

 three ports in 1929. This is a decrease of 15 per cent from that landed 

 in 1928. Cod was taken chiefly on Georges Bank and South Channel. 



Mackerel landings, fresh, amounted to 37,521,563 pounds at the 

 three ports, or 12 per cent of the total landings of fresh fish. This is 

 81 per cent of the total catch of mackerel by the United States 

 Atlantic mackerel fleet, and an increase of 55 per cent compared with 

 the landings of this species in 1928. 



