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utilized are mostly surplus fish or fish too large for canning. The busi- 

 ness is most extensive in Eastport and Lubec, a large part of the fish 

 coming from Canadian waters, as is the case with the sardine fish. The 

 quantity of herring utilized for smoking at the sardine canneries was 

 about 3,465,000 pounds. The prepared product consisted of 320,894 

 regular-sized boxes and 15,000 boxes of bloaters, the weight of the 

 smoked fish being 1,970,470 pounds, and the value $46,139. 



The canning of soft clams, in the form of clam chowder, plain clams, 

 and clam juice, is carried on at 17 establishments on the Maine coast — 

 1 in Washington County, 6 in Hancock County, 4 in Lincoln County, 5 

 in Cumberland County, and 1 in Knox County. 



In the following table the details of the canning industry of Maine 

 are given: 



Table showing the extent of the canning industry of Maine in 1892. 



Establishments ... 



( lash capital 



Employees 



Vessels and boats. 



Total. 



Raw products utilized. 



Herring pounds. 



Mackerel do. . . 



Lobsters do. . . 



Clams bushels. 



Total. 



Manufactured products. 



Sardines, in oil: 

 .. Quarters cases 



Salves do. . 



Sardines, in mustard 



Quarters 



Three-quarters... 

 Sardines, in spires: 



Quarters 



Three-quarters .- . 



Two pound do.. 



Three pound do. . 



Odd sizes do. . 



"Brook trout" (herring): 



One pound eases 



T\\ o pound do. . 



Mackerel : 



One pound do. . 



No. 



5, 020 

 106 



$388, 200 

 541), 700 



51,010 



988.910 



57,061,320 253, St 8 



51,760 I 1,339 



5, 326. 322 78. 720 



195,914 65,842 



399, 749 



390,428 1,455.245 

 6,614 31,870 



.do... 

 do... 



.do... 

 .do... 



5,031 

 149,020 



543 

 5,705 



730 

 1,042 

 2,000 



278 

 1.402 



21,582 

 435, 863 



2,145 



18,011 



1, 643 



3, 126 



7, 500 



1,090 

 4,286 



Items. 



Manufacture d products — con- 

 tinued. 

 Plain herring: 



One pound cases.. 



Two pound do 



Pickled her ring barrels. 



Russian sardines do — 



Smoked herring: 



Regulars boxes. 



Bloaters do 



Lobsters : 



One pound cases . . 



Two pound do 



Clams: 



One pound do — 



Two pound do 



Clam chowder : 



One pound do — 



Three pound do 



Clam juice do . . . 



No. ! "Value. 



7,971 

 6,912 



2, 048 

 828 



320,894 



15, 000 



25, 603 

 129 



34, 146 

 23,313 



675 



0,341 

 1, 151 



Total. 



Secondary products. 



Oil gallons . . 14, 1 40 



Pomace tons. . 1, 506 



Refuse 



Total. 



Total of manufactured 

 and secondary products . 



17. 268 

 9,179 



4, 153 



36, 514 

 9, 625 



195, 1 14 

 839 



108,933 



49, 658 



2.294 

 19,631 



4, 604 



2, 466, 107 



3, 100 

 14. 632 



2, 348 



20, 140 



2. 486. 247 



Statistical recapitulation. — In the following series of tables the extent 

 of the foregoing fisheries is shown by States. The statements relate 

 (1) to the number of persons engaged in each branch, (2) to the vessels, 

 boats, and apparatus employed in each fishery, and (3) to the quantity 

 and value of the catch in each form of apparatus. In the tables of per- 

 sons engaged and of boats, vessels, and apparatus used, the full extent 

 of each branch is shown, regardless of the duplications of persons and 

 appliances employed in two or more fisheries. 



In a statistical paper printed in the Bulletin of the Fish Commission 

 for 1893, use was made of the advance returns for the New England 



