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REPOKT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



3,802 net tons, valued with their outfit at $320,900. The number of 

 men engaged was 606, and the products, consisting of oil and whale- 

 bone, were valued at $330,787. 



In Plj^mouth, Dukes, Nantucket, and Norfolk counties the aggregate 

 number of persons employed in the fisheries was 1,262, the investment 

 $317,920, and the products 12,859,591 pounds, valued at $521,461:. 



The following tables give the extent of the fisheries in each county 

 of Massachusetts in 1902: 



Table shoving by counties the number of persons employed in the fisheries of Massachusetts 



in 1903. 



Table showing by counties the vessels, boats, apparatus, and capital employed in the fish- 

 eries of Massachusetts in 1903. 



