298 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
There has been a considerable diminution in the fisheries of this State 
in persons employed, the amount of capital invested, and the quantity 
and value of products* Fishing, however, has never been an important 
industry of the State, as compared with Maine and Massachusetts, 
because of its short coast line. Portsmouth and New Castle are the 
only fishing centers of any importance. 
The decrease has been wholly in the vessel fishery, there having been 
only 12 /vessels in 1887 and 14 in 1888, against 23 in 1880. There has 
been an increase of 30 men in the boat fishery, but as no separate 
figures were given of capital and products for the shore fishery in 1880 
there is no basis for comparison of these items. 
In 1880 the total catch was 10,400,294 pounds, valued at $176,684, 
while in 1888 it reached 3,843,479 pounds, worth $90,044. 
32. Table of persons employed. 
How engaged. 
1887. 
1888. 
Tn vessel fisheries . _ 
108 
132 
Tn shore fisheries . . 
187 
197 
On shore . 
41 
33 
Total 
346 
362 
33. Table of apparatus and capital. 
Designation. 
1887. 
1888. 
Ho. 
Value. 
Ho. 
Value. 
Vessels * . . 
12 
$26, 550 
9, 470 
4, 220 
2,600 
10, 975 
420 
14 
$27, 150 
9, 901 
4, 220 
2,730 
12, 502 
540 
Outfit, 
Rnats 
75 
75 
Apparatus of capture— vessel fisheries: 
T*Orse aeines _ . _ 
5 
5 
"Hand arid tra.wl lines 
Gill nets 
35 
45 
"Harpoons 
7 
105 
10 
150 
Lobster pots 
250 
350 
225 
325 
Apparatus of capture — shore fisheries : 
TTa.nl seines 
3 
150 
3 
135 
Gill nets 
95 
1, 150 
107 
1,246 
Pound nets 
1 
1,000 
1 
1,000 
"Weirs _ _ 
10 
750 
12 
860 
Lobster pots 
2, 045 
2, 510 
840 
2, 065 
2, 540 
825 
Hand a.nd trawl lines ... 
Rpea.rs nln.mmino- outfits etn .. _ 
20 
20 
S>h ore property 
40, 000 
5, 000 
38, 000 
5, 000 
Cash capital 
Total 
106, 110 
107, 144 
* Tonnage in 1887, 415.57; in 1888, 498.42. 
