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for them articles of apparel, shelter, and the apparatus of the trade. 

 In addition to the professional fishermen, there is a large class of 

 men who have been called "semi-professional" fishermen — men 

 who derive from the fisheries less than half of their entire income. 

 Taking into account all those persons who are directly employed in 

 the fisheries for a larger or smaller portion of the year, those who 

 are dependent upon fishermen in a commercial way for support, 

 and the members of their families who are actually dependent upon 

 their labors, it cannot be far out of the way to estimate the total 

 number of persons dependent on the fisheries at from 800,000 to 

 1,000.000. 



The total value of the product, to the producers, of the fisheries of 

 the United States has not yet been definitely determined ; but it will 

 doubtless prove to be somewhere near forty-five millions of dollars. 

 The value of the product, when it reaches the consumer is at least 

 $250,000, 000. Of the thirty-one States and Territories whose 

 citizens are engaged in the fishery industry, seventeen have more 

 than a thousand professional fishermen. The most important of 

 these States is, of course, Massachusetts, with from eighteen to 

 twenty-five thousand men. Second stands Maine, with ten to 

 twelve thousand, unless indeed the 16,000 oystermen of Virginia 

 and the 15,000 of Maryland are allowed to swell the totals for 

 those States. Maine, however, stands second so far as the fisheries 

 proper are concerned. Third comes New York with about 5,000 

 men, then New Jersey with 4,000, North Carolina with 3,500, 

 Oregon with its horde of salmon fishermen, 2,500 in number, 

 Florida with 2,100, Connecticut and California with about 2,000 

 each, Michigan with 1,781, Wisconsin with 800, Georgia with 

 1,400, Ohio with 1,046, Delaware, Rhode Island, and South 

 Carolina, each with about 1,000, New Hampshire, Alabama, 

 Louisana, and Texas with about 400 each, and Mississippi with 

 only 60. 



The majority of our fishermen are native-born citizens of the 

 United States, although in certain localities there are extensive 



