FISHEEIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 281 



Table showing the yield of the shore fisheries in New Hampshire in. 1902. 



Apparatus and species. 



Pound nets and weirs: 



Alewives, fresh 



Alewives, salted... 



Cod 



Herring 



Mackerel 



Perch, M'hite 



Pollock 



Striped bass 



Total 



Lines, trawl and hand: 



Cod 



Haddock 



Hake 



Pollock 



Total 



Lbs. 



100, 000 



250, 000 



50, 000 



100, 000 



10, 000 



1,600 



20, 000 



1,500 



533, 100 



241,600 

 92, 200 

 38, 500 

 87, 800 



460, 100 



Value. 



SI, 000 



2,813 



1,000 



1,000 



800 



160 



200 



225 



7,198 



6,480 

 1,573 



485 

 1,454 



9, 992 



Apparatus and species. 



Rakes and hoes: 

 Clams, soft... 

 Irish moss 



Total 



Pots: 



Lobsters 



Eels 



Total 



Grand total 



Lbs. 



30, 000 

 50, 000 



80, 000 



128, 463 

 5,000 



133, 463 



1,206,663 



Value. 



S3, 000 

 2, 250 



14, 863 

 200 



15, 063 



37, 503 



FISHERIES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



The fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902 gave employment to 14:,300 

 persons, of whom 7,546 were on vessels engaged in fishing, 32 on ves- 

 sels transporting fishery products, 3,809 on boats in the shore fish- 

 eries, and 2,913 were engaged as shoresmen in the wholesale fishery 

 trade and other branches of industrj^ connected with the fisheries. 



The amount of capital invested in the fisheries of the state was 

 $10,811,591. This included 605 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued it ^2,662,351, the net tonnage of which was 32,370 tons, and 

 the value of their outfit 11,362,708; 2,688 boats in the shore fisheries, 

 valued at $213,963; fishing apparatus on vessels and boats to the value 

 of $602,698; shore and accessory property valued at 13,482,371; and 

 cash capital, $2,587,500. 



The products of the fisheries aggregated 230,615,950 pounds, for 

 which the fishermen received $6,482,427. The catch b}^ vessels was 

 188,509,698 pounds, valued at $5,220,660, and by boats in the shore 

 fisheries 42,136,252 pounds, valued at $1,261,767. 



Compared with 1898, the year for which the previous canvass of the 

 fisheries of this state was made, there has been a decrease of 63 in 

 the number of persons emploj^ed, and of $2,561,308 in the amount of 

 capital invested, but an increase of 28,388,133 pounds, or 14.03 per 

 cent in the quantity, and $2,018,700, or 45.22 per cent in the value of 

 the products. Some of the more important species in which there has 

 been an increase in the quantity and value of the catch are alewives, 

 from 2,535,201 pounds, $31,288, to 3,413,350 pounds, $40,979; floun- 

 ders, from 1,168,876 pounds, $14,793, to 2,595,667 pounds, $80,406; 

 haddock, from 35,581,514 pounds, $419,818, to 39,219,530 pounds, 

 $801,868; halibut, from 10,523,297 pounds, $547,440, to 12,155,934 

 pounds, $648,643; herring, from 22,363,497 pounds, $332,547, to 



