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Table showing the yield of the shore fisheries in Néw Hampshire in 1902. 
Apparatus and species. Lbs. Value. || Apparatus and species. Lbs. Value. 
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Pound nets and weirs: | Rakes and hoes: 
Alewives, fresh............. 100,000 | $1,000 Clams ssoiteeeeee a eeeetee ee 30,000 | $3,000 
Alewives, salted)........... 250,000 | 2,813 is him Ossaesepereaseaese cee 50, 000 2, 250 
COCR ae ere es ca oacon Swsers 50,000 | 1,000 | ————— 
TORTS assis oe siajm sratsis t'eie ale 100,000 | 1,000 || Potala. sseeosaat ae eee 80, 000 sy batt) 
Mackerel cccecncescrecaee 10, 000 800 
Rerchw whiteyss 2. ccc a= <= 1, 600 160 || Pots: 
IE OUWOC Keen ee pace 20, 000 200 | ISO DStErs ae aanee eens 128, 463 14, 863 
Stripedshass) eceen. conse 1, 500 225 1Dy2) Ripeae seat ne ee aree ciel 5, 000 | 200 
TO La eerste cee x aieleee 533,100 | 7,198 Motels masteyacteeiceenie es 133,463 | 15, 063 
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Lines, trawl and hand: | Granditotaluteencseccen aces 1, 206,663 | 37,503 
COdBRE Se est eee | 241,600 | 6, 480 | 
IA GGO CK ecciss sielats eiiecin cine | 92,200 | 1,573 
ia Cretan elects cane 38, 500 485 
POO CK A4 easccseccscecuee 87,800 | 1,454 
Gta See ge me eR Om 460,100 | 9,992 | 
FISHERIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
The fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902 gave employment to 14,300 
persons, of whom 7,546 were on vessels engaged in fishing, 32 on ves- 
sels transporting fishery products, 3,809 on boats in the shore fish- 
eries, and 2,913 were engaged as shoresmen in the wholesale fishery 
trade and other branches of industry connected with the fisheries. 
The amount of capital invested in the fisheries of the state was 
$10,811,594. This included 605 fishing and transporting vessels, 
valued at $2,562,351, the net tonnage of which was 32,370 tons, and 
the value of their outfit $1,362,708; 2,688 boats in the shore fisheries, 
valued at $213,963; fishing apparatus on vessels and boats to the value 
of $602,698; shore and accessory property valued at $3,482,374; and 
cash capital, $2,587,500. 
The products of the fisheries aggregated 230,645,950 pounds, for 
which the fishermen received $6,482,427. The catch by vessels was 
188,509,698 pounds, valued at $5,220,660, and by boats in the shore 
fisheries 42,136,252 pounds, valued at $1,261,767. 
Compared with 1898, the year for which the previous canvass of the 
fisheries of this state was made, there has been a decrease of 63 in 
the number of persons employed, and of $2,561,308 in the amount of 
capital invested, but an increase of 28,388,133 pounds, or 14.03 per 
cent in the quantity, and $2,018,700, or 45.22 per cent in the value of 
the products. Some of the more important species in which there has 
been an increase in the quantity and value of the catch are alewives, 
from 2,535,201 pounds, $31,288, to 3,413,350 pounds, $40,979; floun- 
ders, from 1,168,876 pounds, $14,793, to 2,595,667 pounds, $80,406; 
haddock, from 35,581,514 pounds, $419,818, to 39,219,530 pounds, 
$801,868; halibut, from 10,523,297 pounds, $547,440, to 12,155,934 
pounds, $648,643; herring, from 22,363,497 pounds, $332,547, to 
