CHAPTEE II. 

 SUMMARY OF STATISTICS. 

 The general' statistics for the United States and for the five divisions are summarized in the following table: 



The fisheries of the Atlantic coast division contrib- 

 uted nearly two-thirds of the total number of persons 

 employed, the value of products, the capital invested 

 in vessels and boats, and that invested in shore and 

 accessory property, together with cash capital, though 

 they represented a somewhat smaller proportion of 

 the capital invested in apparatus of capture. 



On account of the relatively large investment in 

 apparatus of capture in the Pacific coast and the 

 Great Lakes divisions, in the former chiefly in the 

 form of the wheels and slides used in the salmon 

 fisheries and in the latter chiefly in the form of pound 

 nets and traps, these two divisions rank second and 



third, respectively, in the amount of capital employed. 

 The investment in vessels reported for the Pacific 

 coast division is also relatively large, as is the invest- 

 ment in accessory property, together with cash 

 capital, reported for the Great Lakes division. In 

 the value of products reported the Pacific coast fish- 

 eries rank next to those of the Atlantic coast. 



Because of the prominence of the fisheries of the 

 New England states, chiefly on account of the deep-sea 

 fisheries, and of the Middle Atlantic states, on ac- 

 count of the oyster fisheries, a summary of the statis- 

 tics of the Atlantic coast division by state groups is 

 here given. 



Chesapeake Bay is the most important fishing 

 ground on the Atlantic coast. The fishermen of 

 the Chesapeake Bay fisheries, including those of its 

 tributary waters, formed more than one-third of the 

 total number employed in the Atlantic coast fisheries 

 in 1908, and the value of the products of the Chesa- 



peake Bay fisheries constituted more than one-fifth of 

 the value of all products of the Atlantic coast fish- 

 eries. As the fisheries of Chesapeake Bay and its 

 tributaries cover portions of four states, a summary 

 of the statistics, by states, is given in the following 

 table: 



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