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  menhaden 
  industry; 
  New 
  Bedford, 
  Provincetown 
  and 
  

   Edgartown 
  the 
  whale 
  fishery 
  ; 
  and 
  New 
  London 
  and 
  

   Stonington 
  the 
  sea-elephant 
  fleet 
  of 
  the 
  Antarctic. 
  East- 
  

   port 
  and 
  Portland 
  are 
  the 
  most 
  prominent 
  lobster 
  centres 
  ; 
  

   and 
  Eastport 
  practically 
  controls 
  the 
  sardine 
  industry. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  fisheries 
  are 
  becoming 
  concentrated 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  

   cities, 
  and 
  while 
  formerly 
  fifty 
  small 
  local 
  fleets 
  were 
  

   recognised, 
  the 
  commercial 
  fisheries 
  are 
  now 
  carried 
  on 
  

   chiefly 
  from 
  Gloucester, 
  Portland, 
  Boston, 
  though 
  Province- 
  

   town, 
  with 
  Boothbay 
  and 
  some 
  other 
  minor 
  ports 
  of 
  Maine, 
  

   must 
  still 
  be 
  recognised. 
  New 
  York, 
  Philadelphia, 
  Norfolk, 
  

   Savannah, 
  and 
  San 
  Francisco 
  have 
  market 
  fleets 
  of 
  some 
  

   importance. 
  

  

  Fishermen. 
  — 
  For 
  every 
  man 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  

   there 
  is 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  other 
  man 
  who 
  is 
  dependent 
  to 
  a 
  

   considerable 
  extent 
  upon 
  his 
  labours 
  for 
  support. 
  To 
  the 
  

   class 
  of 
  "shoresmen 
  " 
  belong 
  (i) 
  the 
  capitalists 
  who 
  furnish 
  

   supplies 
  and 
  apparatus 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  active 
  fishermen 
  ; 
  

   (2) 
  the 
  shopkeepers 
  from 
  whom 
  they 
  purchase 
  provisions 
  

   and 
  clothing 
  ; 
  and 
  (3) 
  the 
  skilled 
  labourers 
  who 
  manu- 
  

   facture 
  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 
  labours, 
  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. 
  

  

  