288 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
invested was $5,319,268, including 332 vessels of 19,578 tons net ton- 
nage, valued at 81,507,926, and their outfit, ralied at $693,597; 585 
boats in the shore fisheries, valued at $55, 070; fishing apparatus used 
on vesselsand boats, $285,201; shoreandaccessory property, $1,472,869, 
and cash capital, $1,304,500. The products secured by vessels and 
boats amounted to 132,874,503 pounds, for which the fishermen 
received $3,426,326. The greater part of the products was taken by 
vessels and boats owned at Gloucester. 
The fisheries of Gloucester in 1902 employed 5,960 persons, of whom 
4,278 were on vessels, 235 on boats, and 1,447 were shoresmen engaged 
chiefly in preparing fish for market. The investment was $4,950,796. 
This included, in connection with the vessel fisheries, 293 fone ves- 
sels and 3 transporting vessels of 18,198 net tons, valued at $1,415,596, 
and their outfit, v: Aiea at $641,958; hand and trawl lines used by ves- 
sels, valued at $89,876; purse seines, 132, valued at $95,500; gill nets, 
3,673, valued at $34,629, and sword-fish harpoons, lines, etc., worth 
$690. There were also 148 boats in the shore fisheries, valued at 
23,165, including 15 gasoline boats, worth $9,150, used chiefly in the 
lobster, mackerel, and herring fisheries. The fishing apparatus on 
boats was valued at $25,713. The shore and accessory property and 
cash capital employed in the fisheries and wholesale fishery trade 
amounted to $2,623,669. The mackerel fleet from this port using purse 
seines numbered 85 vessels, 1 of which was a steamer and 7 had auxil- 
lary power by the use of gasoline and were among the most successful 
of the fleet. The products of the fisheries of Gloucester in 1902 
amounted to 114,424,457 pounds of fresh and salted fish, having a 
value to the fishermen of $3,016,152, of which 108,967,917 pounds, 
$2,856,920, were taken by vessels and 5,456,540 pounds, $129,232, by 
boats in the shore fisheries. These products were not all landed at 
Gloucester, however, but a part of them was sold at Boston and else- 
where. Vessels from other ports also landed considerable quantities 
of fish at Gloucester. The total quantity of fishery products landed 
at this port by American fishing vessels in 1902 as their own catch was 
88,980,879 pounds, valued at $2,336,444, of which 39,614,878 pounds, 
$787,676, were fresh fish and 49,366, 001 pounds, 1 ,048,768, were 
salted fish. 
Suffolk County is next in importance, having 2,419 persons employed, 
1,283 of whom were on vessels, 268 on boats, Sad 918 were shoresmen. 
The investment was $3,851,884, and included 80 vessels with a net 
tonnage of 4,593 tons, valued at $581,350, and the value of their out- 
fit, $322,752; 174 eae in the shore fisheries, valued at $9,080; fishing 
apparatus, $83,952; shore and accessory pr opeae $1,749,750, and cash 
capital, $1,105,000. The products taken in the fisheries of this county 
vet eregated 42,461 5,284 pounds, having a value to the fishermen of 
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51,155,480, and were nearly all marketed at Boston. 
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