FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 173 
21,536,000 pounds, valued at $268,700, and mackerel, 1,575,923 
pounds, valued at $146,611. 
Compared with 1905, there has been a decrease of 566 in the num- 
ber of persons employed in the fisheries of the State, but an increase 
in the investment amounting to $1,184,062, in the total quantity of 
products of 24,354,640 pounds and in the value of $1,749,920. There 
was a large increase in the catch of the following species as compared 
with 1905: Menhaden, 20,509,800 pounds in quantity and $265,678 
in value; scup, 2,721,100 pounds in quantity and $679,816 in value; 
whiting, 1,313,630 pounds in quantity and $12,244 in value; floun- 
ders, 1,308,114 pounds in quantity and $44,139 in value; lobsters, 
1,053,873 eee in quantity and $296,321 in value; and mackerel, 
YEARS 
Rls ste te: SU) 0) on) ye Tie) ot Ti oe Th et te) 
1) TE A a Se 
(es ee ee 
[ Fae ae se 
THOUSANDS OF ACRES —————_—_—— 
Sawovsio SGNYSNOHL ————————___" 
10,709.8 
504, 9,250.8 
16, 814.7 18,655,5 7,139.5 
Fie. 9.—Acres of oyster ground leased to Spee in Rhode Island, by years, from 1905 to 1919, 
inclusive. 
737,993 pounds in quantity and $98,557 in value. The species for 
which there has been a significant decrease, with the amount of the 
decrease, follow: Squeteague, 2,868,925 pounds in quantity and 
$52,649 in value; haddock, 505,435 pounds in quantity and $14,276 
in value; and alewives, 329,025 pounds in quantity and $1,115 in 
value. No shad, hickory shad, or king whiting were reported in the 
catch in 1919. The take of Irish moss amounted to only 2,000 
pounds, valued at $240, in 1919, as compared with 16,000 pounds, 
valued at $1,120, in 1905. 
The accompanying graph (fig. 9), showing the number of acres of 
oyster ground leased to individuals in Rhode Island, by years, from 
1905 to 1919, indicates with marked clearness the rise and fall in that 
State of its most important fishery. According to canvasses made by 
this Bureau, the yield in 1905 amounted to 916,088 bushels, in 1910 
to 2,268,278 bushels, and in 1919 to 894,537 bushels, which substan- 
