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salted, taken mostly in North Carolina, 15,185,585 pounds, valued at 
$412,067; mullet, fresh and salted, 11,757,318 pounds, valued at 
$508,044: oysters, 5,871,376 pounds, or 838,768 bushels, valued at 
$260,863 : squeteagues or sea trouts, 5,105,249 pounds, valued at 
$360,527; Spanish mackerel, taken mostly in Florida, 3.211.405 
pounds, valued at $232,355; cero and kingfish, credited mostly to 
Florida, 2,483,647 pounds, valued at $161.562, and spot, 1,692,775 
pounds, valued at $72,795. As compared with the Burean’s Korat 
for 1902, there was increase in the catch aggregating 226,168,051 
pounds, valued at $2,508,983. The large advance over previous 
years was mostly due to the greatly increased output of menhaden, 
the .1902 catch ‘amounting to only 18,862,000 pounds, as against 
257,757,799 pounds in 1918. The yield of all other species in 1902 
was 87,584,072 pounds and in 1918, 74,856,324 pounds. Other prod- 
ucts which have shown a noteworthy increase are cero and kinegfish, 
drums, Spanish mackerel, and shrimp. 
FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
A canvass of the fisheries of the New England States for the cal- 
endar year 1919 was completed early in 1921. The number of per- 
sons ascertained to be engaged in the fisheries was 30,767, credited to 
the different States as follows: Maine, 14,386; Massachusetts, 12,346 ; 
Connecticut, 2.289; Rhode Island, 1,646; and New Hampshire, 100. 
Compared with the returns for 1905, there has been a decrease in the 
number of persons employed of 6,572, or 17.60 per cent. The invest- 
ment in the fisheries of the different States arranged in the order of 
importance was as follows: Massachusetts $19, 111 269; Maine, $17,- 
544,969; Rhode Island, $2,249,536; Connecticut, $1,645,793; New 
Hampshire, $45,530 ; total, $40,597,097. This repr esents an increase 
of $18,066,577, or 80. ‘18 per cent, as compared with 1905. 
The yield for the region amounted to 464,339,870 pounds, valued at 
$19,838,657, distributed as follows: Massachusetts, 246.951,241 
pounds, valued at $10,859,746; Maine, 147,956,369 pounds, valued at 
$3,889,035; Rhode Island, 48,250,883 pounds, valued at $3.296.578; 
Connecticut, 23,652,647 pounds, valued at $1, 700,638 ; ‘and New 
Hampshire, 528,730 pounds, valed aut $92,660. The most important 
products were: Cod, er 917,535 pounds, valued at $3,597,891; oysters, 
19,337,374 pounds, or 2,762,482 bushels, valued at $2,617,020; lobsters, 
10 666, 706 pounds, valued at $ $2,550, 980 : haddoc k, 89,405,609 pounds, 
valued at $2,544,617; and mackerel, 15,785,012 pounds, valued at 
$1,562,088. Compared with 1905, there was a net decrease amount! ng 
to 12 943, 734 pounds, but a net increase of $5,654,452 in the first value 
of the products, 
SARDINE INDUSTRY OF MAINE. 
A complete enumeration of the sardine industry of the State of 
Maine was made by the Bureau for the calendar years 1919 and 1920. 
In 1919 the plants engaged in canning sardines numbered 53. The 
herring utilized amounted to 125,309, 415 pounds, valued at $852,450, 
and the pack of canned fish was 2 ‘450, 268 cases, valued at $11,933, ‘986, 
of which 1,902,430 cases, valued at $9, 327,665, were quarter oils... In 
1920 the plants numbered 50 and the herring consumed aggregated 
