THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



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Supplementary Table Showing Certain op the Above Products in Bushels, Gallons, and 



Number. 



Quantity. 



Clams, hard-shell bushels 



Clams, soft-shell and other do.. 



Mussels do.. 



Oysters do.. 



Oyster and other shells" do.. 



Scallops do.. 



Cockles and winkles do.. 



Oil: 



Fish gallons 



Whale do.. 



Sea-elephant do__ 



Fur-seal pelts number 



Alligator hides . do.. 



Otter Skins do.. 



I, I3'?, 106 



843.851 



48, 946 



31, 112,515 



332,910 



264, 358 



9, 400 



99. 375 



578. 930 



78, 750 



15. 394 

 70, 410 



4.537 



o Exclusive of tortoise and mussel shells. 



The two most important fishing ports on the Atlantic coast are Boston 

 and Gloucester, from which places upward of 435 vessels, of 24,000 net tonnage, 

 valued at $2,150,000 and carrying over 6,000 men, are employed in the fisheries. 

 Most of the vessels are schooner rigged, and engaged in fishing on the high seas 

 or on the "banks" lying off the United States and the British provinces. In 

 the year 1907 about 200,000,000 pounds of fish, having a first value of over 

 $5,250,000, were landed in the ports named. For the purpose of keeping in 

 close touch with the condition and extent of these fisheries, which afford a good 

 criterion of the New England fisheries as a whole, two local agents are employed 

 to collect daily statistics of receipts, and this information is incorporated into 

 a special bulletin issued monthly and widely distributed to the trade. It is the 

 expectation that this local statistical service will be extended to other important 

 centers. 



The Bureau has conducted several investigations of the fisheries of the 

 Hawaiian Islands and Porto Rico, and is now engaged in a study of the fisheries 

 of the Philippine Islands. The latest information obtained gives the following 

 figures for Hawaii and Porto Rico, for the Philippines no complete data are 

 available, but it is estimated that the industry yields annually products to the 

 value of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000. 



Persons engaged in fishing 



Value of vessels, boats, and apparatus employed 



Quantity of catch (pounds) 



Value of catch 



Hawaii 

 (1903). 



3.241 

 $309,217 



6.972.735 

 $677, 897 



Porto Rico 

 (1902). 



748 

 $35,826 

 169,770 

 ,022 



