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fish-culture, and Mr. F. F. Dimick, local agent at Boston. The territory 

 covered by the field force in the investigation was as follows : Mr. Ansley 

 Hall canvassed the whole of Bhode Island and New Hampshire and 

 that part of the Massachusetts coast lying between Newbury port and 

 Barnstable, with the exception of Gloucester and vicinity ; Mr. C. H. 

 Stevenson, the whole of Connecticut and part of Maine coast between 

 Bound Pond, in Lincoln County, and Castine, including the islands in 

 Penobscot Bay; Mr. W. A. Wilcox, part of Massachusetts south of 

 Barnstable, including the Cape Cod peninsula and the islands off the 

 southern coast; Mr. E. F. Locke, Gloucester, Bockport, and vicinity, 

 Massachusetts, and the coast of Maine from Sullivan to Bluehill, 

 including Mount Desert Island and other smaller islands adjacent 

 thereto; Mr. F. F. Dimick, the eastern Maine coast from Gouldsboro to 

 Lubec, inclusive; Mr. E. E. Pace, the western part of Maine, from the 

 State line to Bound Pond and the region between Castine and Bluehill. 

 The number of persons engaged in the mackerel fishery of the New 

 England States in 1S92, the last of the three years covered by the 

 agents' inquiries, was 5,803. Of this number, 2,40C were vessel fisher- 

 men, and 3,187 were shore or boat fishermen. These figures include all 

 persons who fished especially for mackerel during any part of the year 

 or in whose apparatus mackerel constituted a conspicuous part of the 

 catch. Detailed information for each State is contained in the follow- 

 ing table, in which data for the years 1890 and 1891 are added for 

 comparison : 



Table showing by States the number of persons engaged in the New England mackerel 

 fishery in'lSQO, 1891, and 1S92. 



The value of the fishing property connected with the mackerel fish- 

 ery of the New England States in 1892 was $1,414,422. The vessels 

 employed numbered 207, and were valued with their outfit at $789,358. 

 The number of boats used in the shore fisheries was 2,906, with a value 

 of $196,997. The apparatus consisted of 244 purse and other seines, 

 valued at $127,775; 7,321 gill nets, worth $62,450; 361 pound nets and 

 trap nets, having a value of $236,736; and 7,789 lines, with a value of 

 $1,106. In the table which follows figures for each State are given, 

 showing the details of the investment in the mackerel fishery in 1890, 

 1891, and 1892. 



