CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Introduction. 



Scope and method 



Common names 



Comparison with statistics of previous canvasses. 



Fisheries of the United States, by states: 1908 . 



CHAPTER II. 



Summary of Statistics. 



Persons employed 



Proprietors and independent fishermen. 



Wage-earners and wages 



Comparison with prior censuses 



CHAPTER III. 

 Persons Employed, Salaries, and Wages. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Capital and Equipment. 



Vessels and boats 



Vessel's and boats, by divisions 



Apparatus of capture 



Shore and accessory property and cash 



Table 1.— Equipment and other capital: 1908 



Table 2. — Apparatus of capture: 1908 



Table 3. — Number, tonnage, and value of vessels and boats: 1908. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Products. 



Table 1.— Products, by general classes: 1908 and 1900 to 1904 



Table 2 . — Products, by species and by geographic divisions : 1908 



Table 3.— Products, by class of fisheries, apparatus of capture, and geographic divisions: 



Table 4. — Products, by species and by apparatus of capture: 1908 



Table 5. — Products — Detail summary, by states and by species: 1908 



Table 6. — Products, by apparatus of capture and by states: 1908 



1908. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Products of the Principal Fisheries in Detail. 



Alewives . . . 



Bluefish 



Buffalo fish . 



Carp 



Catfishes 



Clams 



Cod 



Crabs. . . . 

 Flounders. 

 Haddock. . 

 Hake 



Halibut 



Herring 



Lake herring. 



Lake trout 



Lobster 



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Mackerel 



Menhaden 



Mullets 



Mussels 



Oyster 



Pike perches 



Pollack 



Salmon 



Shad 



Shrimp and prawn . 



Skins 



Snappers 



Sponge 



Squeteague 



Sturgeons 



Whale products 



Whitefish 



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