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FISHERIES OF CONNECTICUT. 
In 1919 Connecticut ranked third in the number of persons engaged 
and fourth in the investment and quantity and value of the products. 
The number of persons employed on fishing and transporting vessels 
was 647, in the shore or baa fisheries 1,019, and in the wholesale 
establishments, including the fertilizer plants, 623, representing a 
total of 2,289. The investment amounted to $1,645,793, which in- 
cludes 123 fishing and transporting vessels, valued at $546,163, with 
a net tonnage of 3,869 tons ad: outfits valued at $253,888; 763 
power, sail, row, and other boats, valued at $146,551; fishing appa- 
ratus employed in the vessel and shore fisheries to the value of 
$101,992; shore and accessory property valued at $498,699; and 
working cash capital to the amount of $98,500. 
The products of the fisheries amounted to 23,652,647 pounds, 
valued at $1,700,638. The most important products were oysters, 
12,197,703 pounds, or 1,742,529 bushels, valued at $1,087,016; men- 
haden, 6,736,564 pounds, valued at $93,312; flounders, 2,349,181 
pounds, valued at $91,962; lobsters, 740,848 pounds, valued at 
$189,157; and shad, 463,203 pounds, valued at $86,637. 
Compared with 1905, there has been a decrease in the number of 
persons employed of 1,118, an increase in the investment amounting 
to $10,040, and a decrease in the quantity of products taken amount- 
ing to 51,320,001 pounds and in the value amounting to $1,473,310. 
The species for which the decrease in 1919 has been most marked as 
compared with 1905, with the amount of decrease, follow: Menhaden, 
22,993,824 pounds; alewives, 1,054,878 pounds; swordfish, 362,287 
pounds; squeteague, 138,503 pounds; bluefish, 124,292 pounds; and 
sea bass, 93,161 pounds. In the oyster fishery there has been a 
decrease, compared with the catch in 1905, amounting to 1,944,895 
bushels, or 52.74 per cent, and with the catch in 1910, of 1,529,471 
bushels, or 46.74 per cent. 
FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 
Statistics of the number of persons employed, investment, and 
gas of the fisheries in Connecticut are given by counties in the 
ollowing table: 
Persons ENGAGED, INVESTMENT, AND Propucts OF FISHERIES OF CONNECTICUT 
IN 1919, By COUNTIES. 
Item. Fairfield. Hartford. Middlesex. 
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