FISHERIES, BY STATES. 



131 



1 Exclusive of 73 proprietors not fishing. 



* Includes provisions furnished to the value of $145,000. 



The persons employed in the shore and boat fisher- 

 ies, including 244 shoresmen, outnumbered those em- 

 ployed in the vessel fisheries, including 59 shoresmen, 

 the total figures being 5,019 and 562, respectively. 

 The total number employed in transporting vessels 

 was 214. The number of wage-earners was smaller 

 than the number of proprietors and independent fish- 

 ermen. The shore and boat fisheries are credited with 

 2,871 of the 2,963 proprietors and independent fisher- 

 men actually engaged in fishing, and with 2,148 of the 

 2,832 employees. In vessel fisheries employees out- 

 numbered proprietors and independent fishermen, the 

 ratio being about 6 to 1, and for transporting vessels 

 the ratio was nearly 10 to 1; but in shore and boat 

 fisheries proprietors and independent fishermen were 

 more numerous than wage-earners, in the ratio of 4 to 

 3.. The wages and salaries paid equaled 36 per cent of 

 the value of the products. 



Equipment and other capital. The following table 

 gives statistics of the capital invested in Louisiana 

 fisheries in 1908: 



In 1908 slightly over half of the investment in Loui- 

 siana fisheries, or $479,000, was in shore and boat 

 fisheries. Transporting vessels accounted for $289,000 

 of the capital, and fishing vessels for $162,000. Of the 

 value of shore and accessory property, $1,200 per- 

 tained to vessel fisheries, $2,500 to transporting ves- 

 sels, and $35,000 to shore and boat fisheries. Of the 

 cash capital, $900 was reported in connection with the 

 shore and boat fisheries in the Mississippi River dis- 

 trict, and $200 in connection with transporting ves- 

 sels in the Gulf district. Over 85 per cent of the total 

 capital was invested in craft of various kinds and their 

 outfits. 



The number and tonnage of vessels and the number 

 of boats were as follows : 



The number of the various kinds of apparatus used 

 is shown in the following tabular statement: 



Products, by species. Table 1, on page 135, gives 

 statistics for 1908 of the quantity and value of the 

 product of the Louisiana fisheries by species and by 

 apparatus of capture. Forty-one species made up 



