FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 



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eries, having 1,066 persons employed, $517,202 invested, and products 

 amounting to 9,302,914 pounds, valued at $833,276. The fisheries of 

 Fairfield County are nearly as extensive as those of New Haven, the 

 number of persons employed being 951, the investment $446,666, and 

 the products 8,074,016 pounds, valued at $711,879. The quantity of 

 products is greatest in New London County because it includes the 

 greater part of the yield of menhaden. 



The extent of the fisheries in each county of the state in 1902 is 

 shown in the following tables: 



Table shovnng by counties the number of persons employed in. the fisherks of Connecticut 



'in 1902. 



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

 fisheries of Connecticut in 1902. 



