288 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



invested was $5,319,263, including 332 vessels of 19,578 tons net ton- 

 nage, valued at 11,507,926, and their outfit, valued at $693,597; 585 

 boats in the shore fisheries, valued at $55,070; fishing apparatus used 

 on vessels and boats, $285,301; shore and accessory propert}^, $1,472,869, 

 and cash capital, $1,304-, 500. The products secured by vessels and 

 boats amounted to 132,874,503 pounds, for which the fishermen 

 received $3,426,326. The greater part of the products was taken by 

 vessels and boats owned at Gloucester. 



The fisheries of Gloucester in 1902 emplo3"ed 5,960 persons, of whom 

 4,278 were on vessels, 235 on boats, and 1,447 were shoresmen engaged 

 chiefly in preparing fish for market. The investment was $4,950,796. 

 This included, in connection with the vessel fisheries, 293 fishing ves- 

 sels and 3 transporting vessels of 18,198 net tons, valued at $1,415,596, 

 and their outfit, valued at $641,958; hand and trawl lines used by ves- 

 sels, valued at $89,876; purse seines, 132, valued at $95,500; gill nets, 

 3,673, valued at $34,629, and sword-fish harpoons, lines, etc., worth 

 $690. There were also 148 boats in the shore fisheries, valued at 

 $23,165, including 15 gasoline boats, worth $9,150, used chiefl}^ in the 

 lobster, mackerel, and herring fisheries. The fishing apparatus on 

 boats was valued at $25,713. The shore and accessory property and 

 cash capital emploj^ed in the fisheries and wholesale fishery trade 

 amounted to $2,623,669. The mackerel fleet from this port using purse 

 seines numbered 85 vessels, 1 of which was a steamer and 7 had auxil- 

 iary power by the use of gasoline and were among the most successful 

 of the fleet. The products of the fisheries of Gloucester in 1902 

 amounted to 114,424,457 pounds of fresh and salted fish, having a 

 value to the fishermen of $3,016,152, of which 108,967,917 pounds, 

 $2,886,920, were taken by vessels and 5,456,540 pounds, $129,232, by 

 boats in the shore fisheries. These products were not all landed at 

 Gloucester, however, but a part of them was sold at Boston and else- 

 wherci Vessels from other ports also landed considerable quantities 

 of fish at Gloucester. The total quantity of fishery products landed 

 at this port by American fishing vessels in 1902 as their own catch was 

 88,980,879 pounds, valued at $2,336,444, of which 39,614,878 pounds, 

 $787,676, were fresh fish and 49,366,001 pounds, $1,548,768, were 

 salted fish. 



Suffolk County is next in importance, having 2,419 persons employed, 

 1,233 of whom were on vessels, 268 on boats, and 918 were shoresmen. 

 The investment was $3,851,884, and included 80 vessels with a net 

 tonnage of 4,593 tons, valued at $581,350, and the value of their out- 

 fit, $322,752; 174 boats in the shore fisheries, valued at $9,080; fishing 

 apparatus, $83,952; shore and accessor}^ property, $1,749,750, and cash 

 capital, $1,105,000. The products taken in the fisheries of this county 

 aggregated 42,460,284 pounds, having a value to the fishermen of 

 $1,155,480, and were nearly all marketed at Boston. 



