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Table showing the yield of the shore fisheries in Xew Hampshire in 1902. 



FISHERIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



The fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902 gave employment to 14,300 

 persons, of whom 7,516 were on vessels engaged in fishing, 32 on ves- 

 sels transporting fishery products, 3,809 on boats in the shore fish- 

 eries, and 2,913 were engaged as shoresmen in the wholesale fishery 

 trade and other branches of industry connected with the fisheries. 



The amount of capital invested in the fisheries of the state was 

 $10,811,591. This included 605 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued it ^2,562,351, the net tonnage of which was 32,370 tons, and 

 the value of their outfit $1,362,708; 2,688 boats in the shore fisheries, 

 valued at $213,963; fishing apparatus on vessels and boats to the value 

 of $602,698; shore and accessoiy property valued at $3,482,371; and 

 c^h capital, $2,587,500. 



The products of the fisheries aggregated 230,645,950 pounds, for 

 which the fishermen received $6,482,427. The catch by vessels was 

 188,509,698 pounds, valued at $5,220,660, and by boats in the shore 

 fisheries 42,136,252 pounds, valued at $1,261,767. 



Compared with 1898, the year for which the previous canvass of the 

 fisheries of this state was made, there has been a decrease of 63 in 

 the number of persons emploj^ed, and of $2,561,308 in the amount of 

 capital invested, but an increase of 28,388,133 pounds, or 14.03 per 

 cent in the quantity, and $2,018,700, or 45.22 per cent in the value of 

 the products. Some of the more important species in which there has 

 been an increase in the quantity and value of the catch are alewives, 

 from 2,535,201 pounds, $31,288, to 3,413,350 pounds, $40,979; floun- 

 ders, from 1,168,876 pounds, $14,793, to 2,595,667 pounds, $80,406; 

 haddock, from 35,581,514 pounds, $419,818, to 39,219,530 pounds, 

 $801,868; halibut, from 10,523,297 pounds, $547,440, to 12,155,934 

 pounds, $648,643; herring, from 22,363,497 pounds, $332,547, to 



