50 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
ington had 14,649 persons employed in its fisheries; Oregon, 5,900; 
and California 8,452. : 
The amount of capital invested in the fisheries of these States 
was $24,017,967. In Washington the investment was $14,129,553; 
in Oregon, $4,064,151; and in California, $5,824,263. The invest- 
ment included 1,039 fishing and transporting vessels and scows of 5 
net tons and upward, valued at $3,559,777 and having a net tonnage 
of 24,703 tons, and outfits valued at $721,156; 9,402 boats, valued at 
$2,850,211; fishing apparatus used by vessels and boats to the value 
of $3,147,785; shore and accessory property valued at $12,201,902; 
and cash capital amounting to $1,537,136. The forms of fishing 
apparatus having the greatest value were gill nets, 9,863, valued at 
$1,309,805, and pound nets, 483, valued at $1,122,803. These were 
all used in the shore or boat fisheries except 158 gill nets, valued at 
$4,705, employed in the vessel fisheries. The pound nets were all 
in Washington except 39, valued at $22,700, in Oregon. 
The products of the fisheries amounted to 287,085,344 pounds, 
having a value to the fishermen of $9,306,448. The output mWash- 
ington was 159,053,778 pounds, valued at $5,320,725; im Oregon, 
34,692,863 pounds, ee $1,479,021; and in California, 93,338,703 
pois: valued at $2,506,702. The catch of salmon, including steel- 
ead trout, amounted to 131,932,020 pounds, valued at $4,091,681; 
albacore, 21,049,190 pounds, valued at $316,103; cod, 10,487,401 
pounds, valued at $343,338; and halibut, 40,825,874 pounds, valued 
at $2,050,709. A considerable number of other species were also 
taken in large quantities. 
Compared with the returns for 1904, there was an increase of 47.50 
per cent in the number of persons employed, 87.05 per cent in the 
amount of capital invested, and 70.27 per cent in the quantity and 
39.30 per cent in the value of the products. Compared with the 
returns for 1908, published by the Bureau of the Census, there was an 
increase of 81.70 per cent in the number of persons employed, 58.21 
per cent in the amount of capital invested, and 62.97 per cent in the 
quantity and 36.07 per cent in the value of the products. 
The following tables contain statistics of the number of persons 
employed, the amount of capital invested, the quantity and value of 
the products of the fisheries of the Pacific Coast States in 1915, and - 
- comparative statistics of those items for various years; also, statistics 
of various fishery products prepared and the pack of canned salmon 
in Washington, Oregon, and California in 1915, comparative statistics 
of the number of cases of salmon canned in certain years, the yield 
of the fisheries of the principal rivers in 1915, and comparative sta- 
tistics of the catch of introduced fishes: 
