770 



HISTOKY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 



Value of vessels 



Number of boats 50 



Value of same ftiOO 



Number of lobster pots 2, 250 



Value of same $1, 688 



Total amouut of capital iuvested in the fishery .'. $2, 938 



Number of barrels of bait used 1,050 



Value of same $525 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the market smacks and to the local fresh trade, in pounds.. 108,600 



Value of same to the fishermen $3, 982 



YORK DISTRICT. 



Lobster fishing is carried on from Wells, Cape Neddock, York, and Kittery iu this district. 



WELLS. Lobsters have not been abundant in this locality for several years past. The fishery 

 is carried on in small wherries, measuring from 13 to 20 feet in length, and either schooner or 

 sloop rigged. The old style of hoop net pot, with iron ring measuring 2 feet in diameter, is still 

 employed to a large extent. About thirteen men now engage in the fishery, using seventy-five 

 lath traps and two hundred and fifty hoop-net traps. 



CAPE NEDDOCK. At Cape Neddock three hundred lobster pots are set from April to July, 

 the catch being marketed at Portsmouth and Gloucester. Dories are used for tending the traps. 



YORK. A small fishery for lobsters is carried on about the ledges near York Harbor, the 

 season being limited to the three and one-half mouths, from April to the middle of July. The 

 catch during late years has greatly fallen off, and the lobsters have also become reduced in size. 

 Two hundred traps were set in 1880. 



KITTERY. Six men from this place engage in lobstering from March to October, using three 

 boats and setting two hundred and eighty traps. 



Summation of the lobster fisheries in York district in 1880. 



Number of fishermen. 30 



Number of boats 23 



Value of same $460 



Number of lobster pots 1,105 



Value of same $829 



Total amouut of capital invested in the fishery $1, 289 



Number of barrels of bait used 510 



Value of same f 255 



Quantity of lobsters sold to the market smacks and to the local fresh trade, in pounds 99, 000 



Value of same to the fishermen $3, 630 



STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION OF THE LOBSTER INDUSTRY IN THE STATE OF MAINE IN 1880. 



Table of lobster smacks owned on the coast of Maint. 



Of the fifty-eight snwks included in the above list, fifty are carriers merely, while eight engage directly in the fishery, setting pots. Of 

 the fifty earners twenty-nine are well smacks, carrying to the freh m:ii U.T.H. principally porMxml and Bofttnn, and twenty-one are dry 

 macks, carrying to the cauueries. These smacks do their buying and nsliiug almost exclusively on the ilitiuc roust. 



