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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
41. — Table showing the products of the canning industry of Maine in 1889 — Continued. 
SUMMARY. 
I. Raw products: 
Herring , pounds. 
Lobsters ...do... 
Clams bushels . 
Menhaden pounds . 
Total . 
II. Manufactured products : 
Sardines, in oil : 
Quarters cases 
Halves do. . 
Three-quarters do. . 
Sardines, in mustard : 
Quarters do.. 
Three-quarters do. . 
Sardines, in spiees : 
Quarters do.. 
Three-quarters .do. . 
One pound do.. 
Two pound do.. 
Odd sizes do. . 
Sardines, in tomato sauce : 
One pound do.. 
Two pound do.. 
“Brook trout” (herring) : 
Three-pound ovals do.. 
Plain herring : 
Three-quarters do. . 
One pound do.. 
Ho. 
Value. 
31, 594, 338 
$98, 089 
5, 752, 654 
72, 092 
30, 21] 
8,103 
881, 550 
2,939 
181, 223 
261, 940 
1, 013, 877 
9, 881 
56, 716 
1, 025 
4,100 
4, 127 
20, 635 
158, 069 
553, 242 
1,062 
5, 310 
5,609 
21, 034 
74 
277 
10 
26 
36 
126 
256 
704 
23 
58 
1, 100 
6, 600 
643 
1, 608 
6, 385 
18, 176 
II. Manufactured products — cont’d. 
Smoked herring: 
Regulars boxes 
Bloaters .do. . 
Pickled herring barrels 
Menhaden : 
One pound cans 
Russian sardines barrels 
Anchovies do.. 
Lobsters : 
One pound cans 
Two pound do. . 
Clams : 
One pound do. . 
Two pound do.. 
Three pound do.. 
Clam juice do.. 
Total . 
IH. Secondary products : 
Oil gallons 
Herring pomace tons 
Lobster pomace do. . 
Total manufactured and sec 
ondary products 
Ho. 
Value. 
293, 480 
13, 241 
1, 016 
$45, 930 
10, 361 
4, 064 
378, 272 
2, 086 
120 
26, 794 
8, 344 
480 
999, 521 
85, 520 
126, 577 
16, 036 
406, 165 
57| 094 
75, 000 
25, 124 
6, 673 
8,625 
1, 984, 125 
34, 316 
1, 941 
2, 366 
8,580 
15, 528 
20, 848 
44, 956 
2, 029, 081 
42. — Summary by counties of the canning industry of Maine in 1889. 
Canneries. 
Value of 
manufac- 
tured 
products. 
Counties. 
Ho. 
Value 
Cask 
capital. 
Ho. of 
employes. 
Washington 
Hancock 
Knox 
Lincoln 
Cumberland 
31 
4 
3 
$239, 900 
58, 600 
28, 000 
9, 150 
7, 800 
$442, 000 
79, 500 
28,250 
9,300 
4, 000 
3, 144 
601 
169 
94 
9 
$1. 669, 727 
218, 241 
101, 451 
20, 363 
19, 299 
Total 
. 49 
343, 450 
563, 050 
4, 017 
2, 029, 081 
The combined branches are seen to have given employment to 4,017 persons; the 
aggregate capital invested, exclusive of boats and vessels, was $906,500 ; the raw 
products handled were worth $181,223 to the fishermen ; and the manufactured goods 
had a market value of $2,029,081. 
The canning of sardines takes first rank among the shore fishery industries. Of 
the forty -nine factories enumerated in the table, thirty-seven were engaged to a greater 
or less extent in the preparation of sardines, the value of which was greatly in excess 
of that of all the other manufactured products combined. The importance of this 
industry to the State is very great and warrants all the encouragement which can be 
extended. Since the last investigation of this subject was made by the U. S. Fish 
Commission * certain changes have taken place in the methods, etc., in the principal 
centers of the business, which may be properly recorded in this paper. 
One of the principal items of expense in sardine canning is solder, large quantities 
of which are required in making and sealing the cans. Single firms annually consume 
* The American Sardine Industry in 1886, by R. Edward Earll and Hugh M. Smith. Bull. U. S. 
Fish Commission, 1887, 
