MASSACHUSETTS AND ITS FISHERIES. 



Detailed statement of the quantities and values of the products Continued. 



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55. HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS FISHERIES. 



EARLY HISTORY OF TEE FISHERIES. The Massachusetts fisheries date from the settlement 

 of the colouies in the early part of the seventeenth century. The hope of acquiring gain from the 

 pursuit of this industry was one of the inducements for the establishment of plantations at Cape 

 Ann and other parts of the coast. In 1624, the colonists sent a ship to England laden with fish, 

 and the next year two others followed with cargoes of fish and furs. In 1628, they were selling 



