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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1908. 



In the Atlantic Coast district there has been the same 

 tendency toward an increase in the various items up 

 to 1904 and toward a sudden decrease after that date. 

 In the Great Lakes district the number of fishermen 

 has steadily decreased, but up to 1903 the number and 

 value of vessels increased. The number of boats in 

 this district has decreased, but since 1899 their total 

 value has advanced, as a result of the increasing use 



of motor boats. The amount invested in apparatus 

 of capture in the fisheries of the Great Lakes was less 

 in 1908 than at any previous canvass, but in the value 

 of the products there was an increase from 1903 to 

 1908 of $16,000, or 8 per cent. 



Persons employed. — The following table gives the 

 number of persons employed in the fishing industry 

 of New York in 1908: 



1 Exclusive of 112 proprietors not fishing. 



* Includes provisions furnished to the value of $157,000. 



