8 FISHERIES OP THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 



GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE STATISTICS. 

 PERSONS ENGAGED. 



The number of persons employed in the fisheries of the New England 

 States in 1905 was 37,339, of whom 10,649 were on fishing vessels, 

 441 on k'ansporting vessels, 13,114 m the shore or boat fisheries, and 

 13,135 were shoresmen in the wholesale fishery trade, sardine can- 

 neries, smokehouses, skinning lofts, oyster houses, and other shore 

 industries connected with the fisheries. Maine employed in its fish- 

 eries and related industries 15,881 persons; New Hampshire, 145; 

 Massachusetts, 15,694; Khode Island, 2,212; and Connecticut, 3,407. 

 Compared with the returns for 1902, the year for which the last pre- 

 vious canvass was made, there was a decrease of 3,951 persons in 

 Maine and of 16 in New Hampshire, but an increase of 1,394 in 

 Massachusetts, 95 in Rhode Island, and 567 in Connecticut; a decrease 

 of 1,911 in the total number employed. 



Persons Engaged in the Fisheries of the New England States in 1905. 



INVESTMENT. 



The total amount of capital invested in the fisheries and fishery 

 industries of these states was $22,530,720. The investment in Maine 

 was $8,972,049; in New Hampshire, $47,050; in Massachusetts, 

 $10,810,442; in Rhode Island, $1,065,426, and in Connecticut, 

 $1,635,753. Compared with 1902, the investment shows an increase 

 of $2,522,286, There has been an increase in all the states except 

 Massachusetts, where there was a decrease of $1,152. The largest 

 increases were $2,032,546 in Maine and $434,698 in Connecticut, The 

 investment in the region as a whole included 1,447 fishing and trans- 

 porting vessels, valued at $4,385,896, and having a net tonnage of 

 45,668 net tons and outfits valued at $1,727,709; 11,913 row, sail, 

 and power boats in the shore fisheries, valued at $1,048,506; fishing 

 apparatus used by vessels and boats to the value of $1,469,779; shore 

 and accessory property valued at $8,777,354, and cash capital 

 amounting to $5,121,476, The forms of apparatus having the largest 

 aggregate value were seines, $161,477; gill nets, $162,381; pound 

 nets, trap nets, and weirs, $561,708; hand and trawl lines, $309,446, 

 and lobster pots, $210,293, 



