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brook-trout worth $6,500, sea-trout worth $22,058, and 

 mackerel worth $16,400. 1 No mackerel were canned in 

 1889 but in 1898 the pack of canned mackerel was valued 

 at $44,848. The output of canned clams in the same time 

 increased from $43,050 in 1889 to $206,087 in 1898. 



By 1902 packers began to can kippered herring, the out- 

 put for that year being 1,750 cases, valued at $8,720. 

 Mackerel, lobsters, menhaden, and cod have not been canned 

 to any extent for the last half dozen years, the canning 

 business being confined largely to sardines and the different 

 products of clam, as canned clams, clam juice, clam 

 chowder, and clam extracts. 



In 1905, the canning industry of Maine was worth, in 

 manufactured and secondary products, $5,342,062. This 

 total was made up of the following products: sardines, in 

 oil, mustard, and spices, $5,078,587; plain herring $7,200; 

 mackerel, $340 ; cod, $8,931 ; Russian sardines, $1,750 ; her- 

 ring, salted and smoked, $34,285 ; clam products, $192,479. 

 Secondary products, oil, pomace, scrap and fertilizer, $18,- 

 490. The number of persons engaged in the canning in- 

 dustry of Maine in 1905 was 7,017 and the wages paid 

 $1,160,434. 2 



THE SHAD. 



There is no food-fish on the Atlantic coast that can com- 

 pare with the shad in its importance to so many persons. 

 Other fishery industries are carried on with greater capital 

 invested, at a greater risk of life and property, with more 

 effort, and with greater returns. But the shad fishery is 

 probably the most universal of the Atlantic coast fisheries. 

 The fish occurs more or less abundantly along the whole 

 coast from Florida to New Brunswick. Like the alewife, 



1 Goode, Sec. V, Vol. I, p. 521. 



2 Fisheries of the New England States for 1902 and 1905. 



