90 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
14. — Comparative table shoiving the number and value of vessels, boats, etc., employed in the fisheries of tin 
New England States in 1880 and 1889 — Continued. 
States. 
Value of apparatus and 
outfits. 
Cash capital and shore 
property. 
Total capital invested. 
Increase or 
decrease 
Percent- 
age of in- 
crease or 
decrease 
in 1889. 
1880. 
1889. 
1880. 
1889. 
1880. 
1889. 
Maine 
New Hampshire . . 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
Total 
$934, 593 
3, 528) 925 
138. 733 
375, 535 
$638, 151 
33, 390 
2, 550, 444 
146, 202 
243, 384 
$1, 562, 235 
89, 800 
7, 282, 600 
204, 850 
457, 850 
$1, 415, 108 
43. 100 
7, 342, 407 
614, 283 
1, 959, 305 
$3, 341, 344 
209, 465 
14, 334, 450 
596, 678 
1, 421, 020 
^ 2 ' 112) 660 
13, 245, 229 
1, 020, 178 
2, 826, 834 
- $451,451 
— 96, 805 
-1,089,221 
+ 423, 500 
+1, 405, 814 
—13. 51 
-46. 22 
— 7.60 
+70. 98 
+98. 93 
5, 038, 171 
3,611,571 1 9,597,335 
11, 374, 203 
19, 902; 957 
20, 094, 794 
+ 191, 837 
+ .96 
15. — Comparative table showing the values of the fisheries of the New England States in 1880 and 1889. 
States. 
General fisheries. 
Molluscan fisheries. 
Crustacean and 
reptilian fisheries. 
Menhaden 
fishery. 
Mammalian 
fisheries. 
1880. 
1889. 
1880. 
3889. 
1880. 
3889. 
1880. 
1889. 
1880.' 
1889. 
Maine 
New Hampshire . . 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
Total 
$2, 313, 655 
154, 154 
5,547,910 
226, 244 
174, 843 
$1, 298, 728 
79, 846 
4, 639, 495 
298, 440 
256, 780 
$112, 706 
8,980 
133, 784 
282, 964 
424,625 
$219, 508 
150 
247, 038 
332, 564 
1, 108, 551 
$316, 210 
7,500 
158, 229 
15, 871 
27, 145 
1 $574,165 
6, 415 
149, 352 
22, 690 
84, 679 
*$30, 500 
*171, 735 
*162, 730 
$18, 805 
2, 100 
6, 000 
281,450 
86, 812 
$2, 089, 337 
143, 899 
$816, 389 
20, 684 
8, 416, 806 
6, 573, 289 
j 963, 059 
ll, 907, 811 524,955 
837,301 
364, 965 
395, 167 
2, 233, 236 
837, 073 
States. 
To 
1880. 
tal. 
Increase or 
decrease in 
1889. 
Percentage 
of increase 
or decrease 
in 1889. 
Maine 
$2, 742, 571 
170, 634 
7, 959, 760 
696, 814 
933, 242 
$2, 111, 206 
88, 511 
5, 858, 274 
935, 144 
1, 557, 506 
— $631,365 
— 82, 123 
— 2,101,486 
+ 238, 330 
+ 624, 264 
— 23. 02 
— 48. 13 
— 26. 40 
+ 34.20 
+ 66.89 
New Hampshire 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
Total 
12, 503, 021 
j 10, 550, 641 
— 1, 952, 380 
— 15. 62 
* Estimated. 
The menhaden fishery is remarkable for the opposition which it has met with in 
recent years, and which has never been equaled in the case of any other ocean fishery 
of the United States. The effective methods for the capture of fish which have been 
employed in catching menhaden have led many otherwise well-informed persons, and 
many of the boat fishermen along the coast, whose operations are carried on upon a 
very limited scale, to believe that these methods are harmful and destructive, and 
calculated not only to materially decrease the abundance of menhaden, but also to 
seriously interfere with the food-fish fisheries. For this reason, a very decided and 
active prejudice has developed and legislation has been sought both in State legisla- 
tures and Congress to restrict the operations of menhaden fishermen with the alleged 
object of benefiting other fisheries. The lack of space renders it impracticable to 
enter into a discussion here of this matter with sufficient detail to elucidate all sides 
of the subject; but it seems very remarkable that an industry of such importance 
should not only be deprived of the encouragement generally accorded to other fish- 
eries, but that its continuance is jeopardized through opposition. 
