248 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



430 in Rhode Island, and 367 in Connecticut, but a decrease of 63 in 

 Massachusetts. The hirgest percentage of increase was 25.48 per 

 cent in Rhode Island. 



The amount of capital invested in the fisheries and related industries 

 was $20,008,434. The investment in Maine was $6,939,503; in New 

 Hampshire, $42,002; in Massachusetts, $10,811,594; in Rhode Island, 

 $1,014,280, and in Connecticut, $1,201,055. Compared with the 

 returns for 1898 the investment has increased §371,398, or 1,89 per 

 cent. There was an increase in Maine of $2,926,450. 



The investment included 1,479 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued at $3,977,066, having a net tonnage of 46,543 tons, and outfits 

 valued at $1,792,990; 11,405 boats in the shore or boat fisheries, valued 

 at $701,729; fishing apparatus used by vessels and boats to the value 

 of $1,323,467; shore and accessory property valued at $7,928,457, and 

 cash capital amounting to $4,284,725. The kinds of fishing apparatus 

 having the largest aggregate value were pound nets, trap nets, and 

 weirs, exclusive of eel weirs, $489,517; lobster pots, $237,398; hand 

 and trawl lines, $229,476; seines, $171,173, and gill nets, $127,064. 



The products of the fisheries amounted to 534,075,447 pounds, for 

 which the fishermen received §12,406,284. The yield in Maine was 

 242,390,371 pounds, valued at $2,918,772; in New Hampshire, 1,593,013 

 pounds, valued at $50,003; in Massachusetts, 230,645,950 pounds, val- 

 ued at $6,482,427; in Rhode Island, 21,613,964 pounds, valued at 

 $1,155,701; and in Connecticut, 37,832,149 pounds, valued at$l,799,381. 

 The principal species taken in the fisheries of these states, and their 

 quantity and value, including fresh, salted, and smoked fish, were cod, 

 cusk, haddock, hake, and pollock, 191,664,774 pounds, $3,725,664; 

 halibut, 12,365,705 pounds, $662,838; mackerel, 20,358,982 pounds, 

 $1,136,754; herring, 191,739,467 pounds, $912,220; alewives, 8,437,446 

 pounds, $89,289; menhaden, 18,469,390 pounds, $56,401; scup, 7,818,- 

 530 pounds, $189,429; squeteague, 7,336,052 pounds, §177,622; flat- 

 fish and flounders, 4,808,746 pounds, $135,880; sword-fish, 1,689,740 

 pounds, $118,320; eels, 1,403,758 pounds, $75,171; shad, 1,380,812 

 pounds, $58,564; smelt, 1,138,718 pounds, $104,429; whiting or silver 

 hake, 2,513,470 pounds, §9,812; squid, 5,496,461 pounds, §28,409; 

 lobsters, 14,756,495 pounds, $1,336,572; hard clams or quahogs, 

 1,223,200 pounds or 152,900 bushels, $191,357; soft clams, 8,345,470 

 pounds or 834,547 bushels, $413,990; and oysters, 19,550,643 pounds 

 or 2,792,949 bushels, §2,193,316. There were also a considerable 

 number of species taken in smaller quantities. The products of the 

 whale fisheries, consisting of whale and sperm oil and whalebone, had 

 a value of §382,875. 



The products in 1902, as compared with the returns for 1898, have 

 increased 140,617,541 pounds, or 35.73 per cent, in quantity, and 

 $2,723,994, or 28.13 per cent, in value. The value increased in all the 

 states, and the quantity in all except New Hampshire and Rhode 

 Island. 



