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57. Table of persons employed. 
1887. 
1888. 
1, 035 
1,018 
30 
22 
1,250 
J, 256 
709 
741 
3, 024 
3, 037 
How engaged. 
On fishing 
On transporting vessels * 
In shore fisheries*. 
On shore, in factories, packing houses, etc 
Total 
58. Table of apparatus and capital. 
designation. 
Vessels fishing* 
Outfit 
Vessels transporting! 
Outfit 
Boats 
Apparatus of capture— vessel fisheries : 
Seine3 
Lines 
Pots 
Dredges, etc 
Apparatus of capture — shore fisheries : 
Pound nets 
Haul seines 
Gill nets - 
Fyke nets 
Pots 
Lines 
Spears 
Dredges, rakes, etc - 
Shore property 
Cash capital 
Total. 
1887. 
No. 
218 
12 
”l,*365 
12 
790 
1, 965 
120 
52 
67 
524 
,640 
220 
Value. 
$547, 245 
143, 100 
12, 375 
1, 435 
103, 045 
4, 960 
1, 150 
5,615 
21, 600 
41, 875 
4, 090 
2, 574 
2, 684 
19, 459 
290 
210 
6, 350 
1, 629, 110 
350, 520 
2, 897, 687 
1888. 
No. 
211 
10 
1, 354 
10 
760 
2 , 012 
118 
46 
61 
466 
,662 
210 
Value. 
$534, 300 
138. 999 
9, 655 
1,535 
101, 770 
4,310 
1, 086 
5, 830 
22, 000 
40, 180 
3, 370 
2, 400 
2,354 
19, 472 
280 
198 
6, 440 
1, 622, 135 
353, 000 
2, 869, 314 
Tonnage in 1887, 5,223.96; in 1888, 5,085.90. 
t Tonnage in 1887, 199.29 ; in 1888, 168.66. 
Note.— The following idle vessels are not included in the table : In 1887, 13 vessels, 558.44 tons, 
valued at $11,030 ; in 1888, 12 vessels, 420.89 tons, valued at $11,245. 
59. Table of products. 
Species. 
Bluefish 
Cod. 
Flatfish and flounders 
Haddock 
Hake 
Halibut 
Mackerel 
Mackerel, salted 
Menhaden 
Pollock 
Bed snapper 
Sea bass 
Striped bass 
Swordfish . . . 
Tautog 
Lobsters 
Quohaugs . . . 
Seal skins . . . 
Whale oil 
Total 
Vessel fisheries. 
1887. 
1888. 
Pounds. 
560, 416 
2, 233, 839 
259, 726 
1,600 
472, 140 
21, 900 
59, 280 
34, 533, 300 
13, 500 
330, 000 
386, 390 
104, 007 
54, 800 
533, 320 
6. 240 
179, 550 
39, 750, 008 
Value. 
$31, 434 
69, 241 
6, 399 
20 
34, 784 
1,490 
3, 046 
67, 930 
230 
11, 000 
24, 928 
6, 338 
2, 598 
30, 349 
720 
10, 239 
300, 746 
Pounds. 
433, 847 
1, 994, 992 
5,915 
237, S76 
1,800 
351, 340 
18,010 
24, 500 
37, 733, 300 
13, 850 
340, 000 
243, 665 
2, 000 
629 
180, 665 
40, 147 
578, 226 
2, 400 
198, 450 
42, 401,612 
Value. 
$22, 949 
64, 961 
127 
5, 851 
20 
26, 875 
1, 261 
2, 100 
76, 964 
240 
11,170 
16, 139 
75 
S5 
10, 024 
2, 049 
34,183 
2S0 
* 11, 200 
10, 784 
297, 337 
The value of 1,600 seal skins. 
