THE LOBSTER FISHERY. 763 



point, where in 1879 four men from Portland, living on a scow, caught and sold to the Portland 

 smacks and Kennebec River boats. 



At Westport five men were fishing for lobsters from November to April, and two men during 

 the entire year. They set an average of thirty-five traps each and made on an average about one 

 dollar each daily. The catch is disposed of as at Georgetown. At Southport there were thirty 

 men fishing from November to April and five men during the entire year, using on an average 

 about fifty traps each. During the canning season the small lobsters are sold to the Boothbay 

 cannery. 



There were fifteen lobstermen at North Boothbay fishing from November to April, and to 

 some extent also (luring the summer, with about twenty-five traps each and stocking about one 

 dollar each daily. Sales were uia<le to the Boothbay cannery, to the Portland smacks, and for 

 local consumption. In Bcothbay Harbor and East Boothbay there were seventy lobstermen, with 

 thirty-five boats, fishing from the 1st of February to the middle of March, about thirty-five men 

 from the latter date until June, and ten men from Juno to November 1. The Boothbay cannery 

 takes the smaller lobsters during the canning season, the remainder being sold to the Portland 

 smacks and the local markets. 



CANNING. There is but one lobster cannery in the Wiscasset district, and 7ione in the Bath 

 district. The Wiscasset cannery is located at Boothbay, on the eastern side of the strip of land 

 known as Spruce Point, adjoining Liuncgau's Bay. It is owned by J. Winslow Jones & Co., 

 and was established in 1876. Clams and mackerel, as well as lobsters, are put up. The lobsters 

 for this cannery are procured from the fishermen living between Capo Small Point, on the west, 

 and Peinaquid Point, on the east. 



Summation of the lobster fisheries in Wiscasset district in 1880. 



Number of fishermen 130 



Number of boats 106 



Value of same $6, 200 



Number of lobster pots 5,895 



Value of same 4,421 



Total amount of capital invested in the fishery $10,621 



Number of barrels of bait used , 2,700 



Value of same $1,350 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the market smacks, and local fresh trade in pounds 428, $00 



Value of same $15,723 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the canneries, in pounds 367,342 



Value of same 3, 673 



Total quantity of lobsters taken and sold, in pounds 79(>, 142 



Value of same to the fishermen $ 19, 396 



Summation of the lobster canneries in Waldoboro' and Ifiscassct districts in 1880. 



Number of canneries 2 



Value of buildings and fixtures $8,750 



Additional cash capital required 18,411 



Number of boats 5 



Value of same $1,500 



Total amount of capital invested $28,061 



Average number of men employed 35 



Average number of women and boys employed 33 



Average number of smackmen employed 



Total number of persons employed 77 



Number of pounds of live lobsters used li 115,524 



Amount paid to the fishermen for the same $11,155 



Number of 1-pound cans of lobsters put up 185, 340 



Number of 2-pound cans of lobsters put up 21,912 



Enhancement in value of lobsters by process of canning $15,531 



Value of the canned lobsters... $26,080 



