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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



3,802 net tons, valued with their outfit at $320,900. The number of 

 men engaged was 606, and the products, consisting of oil and whale- 

 bone, were valued at $330, Y87. 



In Plymouth, Dukes, Nantucket, and Norfolk counties the aggregate 

 number of persons employed in the fisheries was 1,262, the investment 

 $317,920, and the products 12,859,591 pounds, valued at $521,164. 



The following tables give the extent of the fisheries in each county 

 of Massachusetts in 1902: 



Tdhie shoving hi/ couniks the number of persons employed hi the fisheries of Massachusetts 



in 1903. 



On ves- 

 sels i:sh- 

 ing. 



On ves- 

 sels trans- 

 porting. 



In shore, 

 or boat 

 fisheries. 



Shores- 

 men. 



Total. 



Barnstable 



Bristol 



Dukes 



Essex 



Nantucket. 

 Norfolk.... 

 Plymouth . 

 Suffolk . . . . 



21 

 4,614 



176 

 1,226 



1,286 

 402 

 225 

 943 

 219 

 38 

 428 

 268 



140 



168 



26 



1,533 



128 



2,251 

 1,262 



273 

 7,106 



347 

 38 



604 

 2, 419 



Total 



7,&16 



3,809 



2, 913 



14, 300 



Table showing bij counties the vessels, boats, apparatus, and cajntal employed in the fish- 

 eries of Massachusetts in 190:2. 



