450 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
Comparative table showing the extent of the fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands in 
1900 and 1908—Continued. 
PRODUCTS. 
Percentage 
Inciease - 
Island. 1900. 1903. | (+) or de- Oe onde 
crease (—).\crease (—). 
Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. 
HA Walls 522 ocean seas sas tee cones caosicicdsseapiosaisteaeme 1, 304,311 | 1,404,794 | +100, 483 + 7.70 
MEANY EWES -enopeecsnboooe cobe5o DoS eRoUGa so Rone ssosdEisaccounasas> 27, 100 + 27,100 +100. 00 
Rata ee ce Soe oe Eee eee ene 403, 521 877,946 | — 25,575 — 6.34 
anail.22 M2255. WO eat et as ten Meeeeie cemeeneceeseaee 212, 628 180, 669 | — 81,959 — 88.55 
IN Gol gees eS ne eee er Bie ls Ser ea on a aSdGac 1,159,117 | 1,212,445 | + 53,328 + 4.61 
IMOlOKae ee enue se solder eee eee seein see meets 376, 255 274, 331 —101, 924 — 27.19 
NTN see oe teeoe nae sonore ne ce Seen cee | 29, 525 29,600 | + 75 08 
Oahues ea chee ee os soca cites Sa ated acieme reaeeiaee | 2,787,198 | 3,515,850 | +778, 652 + 28.45 
\. ————— $$ | 
WOE oes eapcoesoacenpansosocHoondsceecouudSETe 6, 222, 455 6, 972, 735 +750, 280 + 12.05 
VALUE OF PRODUCTS. 
FRR W Alice: Soe cites eee ned ete ae ein sarees cece $137, 734 $101,149 | —$36,585 — 26.56 
Ke HOOlA WO cos os mee celers asists cisiswarslelieie scot tee eec resets | se eee 1,456 | + 1,456 +100. 00 
GIT es a aber ba ac nBpSacreuecpentcde qoeacconesppSesade 89, 993 34,788 | — 55,255 — 61.40 
IDE) GEE Seon eat Buse emoCeeResenanc aes aoncqacsencecee 29, 853 11,069 | — 18,784 — 62.92 
IMG TIS Sos at meee cicnite nce cme s ean ase ee eieeecie selene 190, 929 120,267 | — 70,662 — 37.01 
IM OO Kaleem tareere isles see atoll minis stare rst tslass are tebe inioielaiele ore 67, 599 32, 389 — 35,210 — 62.09 
INAEDAT TU aie eee nee Ceeeeri iaii SNA Ee ORLA CPS ae a 5, 623 SOLON we ae nGlS — 46.47 
OBW es eoe ee enn eect erie scene sce eee ae semaaemnne | 561, 915 373,819 | 188,096 — 33.47 
MO tale icrcc gash eecce ces cee Saas aes aaeitiemsiictes 1, 083, 646 677,897 | —405, 749 — 87.44 
IMPORTATION OF FISHERY PRODUCTS. 
With the exception of a small portion of the white population, the 
inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands are great consumers of fishery 
products. The domestic fisheries at present are totally inadequate to 
the demand, and as a result enormous quantities of fresh, canned, 
salted, smoked, dried, and pickled fishery products are imported each 
year. Owing to the unusual admixture of races, the imports are 
very diverse. Dried abalone, cuttlefish, oysters, seaweed, and shrimp 
are consumed by the Japanese and Chinese; dried and salted cod, had- 
dock, hake, and pollock by the Portuguese and Porto Ricans, and sal- 
mon by the whites and natives. 
The United States has always furnished more goods than any other 
country, but since the annexation of the islands, June 14, 1900, this 
has become domestic traffic, and, no records having been kept at the 
custom-house of the receipts from the mainland, it is impossible to 
show in figures the immense preponderance of this part of the trade. 
According to official data, during 1897, 1898, and 1899 the United 
States furnished almost two-thirds of the imports, and, judging from 
the statements of importers and others well informed, this proportion 
has been very radically increased since the annexation. As the United 
States tariff law replaced that of the late Hawaiian Republic, and was 
higher than the latter, foreign products were under a greater dis- 
advantage in competing with goods from the mainland than was the 
case under the provisions of the reciprocity treaty. 
