PISHERIES OP THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 73 



Wholesale Fishery Trade of Gloucester in 1905. 



Number of firms o 53 



Persons engaged 1, 552 



Shore property $1 , «74, 140 



Cash capital S780, 226 



Wages paid 8720, 908 



a Includes 7 firms in-Rockport, Mass. Of the above firms S handled fresh fish; 30 salted, smoked, or 

 boneless: 10 oil, glue, and is'nglass; 2 cold storage; 2 sounds and fish roe. and 1 lobsters. 



Wholesale Trade op Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, and Plymouth 



Counties. 



Counties. 



Barn.stable 



Bristol 



Dukes and Nantucket 

 Plymouth 



Total 



Number 



of 



firms. 



Persons 



179 



120 



16 



4 



319 



Wages 

 paid. 



Shore and 

 accessory 

 property. 



$43, 768 



52, 400 



1,550 



500 



98,218 



8139,542 



117,975 



5,050 



4,850 



267, 417 



Cash 

 capital. 



S103, 800 



192,900 



5,800 



8,500 



311,000 



FISHERIES OF RHODE ISLAND. 



GENERAL STATISTICS. 



The returns for the fisheries of Rhode Island in 1905 exhibit an 

 increase over the showing for 1902, shght in the items of persons 

 engaged and amount of investment, but very considerable in value 

 of the products. 



Persons engaged. — The number of persons increased from 2,117 to 

 2,212, and the amount of the investment in vessels, apparatus, and 

 other propert}^ employed from $1,014,280 to SI, 065,426. 



Persons' Engaged in the Fisheries op Rhode Island in 1905. 



