New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-23
FISHERMEN OF AMERICA.
SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS.
FACTS GATHERED BY PROFESSOR q. y. GOOpE,
AGENT OF THE CENSUS OFFICE.
ny TELEGRAPH To TN TRiBrSyI

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road az interesting pap a' rycnins ~ " the Fiher-
81 tho United statc-" before the AntarupoloSicai
Secretly oi Washington Professor Gooe SAT- Every man
engaged IN The fisheries has u least ono other man who
u dfrtiden 20 Considerable extent rpob - SDof' VI
the FIRST f0r support To the class ~ shorcneh bei"hk
a. ihstapallst4 who furnish supplies and apparatus
f'r the use Of the active fishermen % tea
shopkeepcrs from whom they purchase pro-
Visions and clo,hnc. a.. -. ihc Skilled lalcrcTs
ho manufacture for them articles % apparel 'h'''r
and tic apparatus ottAc trade. r. addition 10 the pro
fasonal dahcrprD. thrre largo class % men who
hstc been called scni professional" nslermen-uen
VINO derive from DC 7hcri,s css than half y their en-
tire Income rakny into account a thoFe pcrsa-. who
src directly employed ia the nshere, for Larger
smaller portion ~ tho year those who dependent
upon fishermen IN commercial way for snpp"r;, and
the members ~ their families who actually depend
cut upon their ahori cauno, be far out VI the way TO
ertmae thc total number % persons dependent on the
fisheries ., from 100000 to 100000.
Tie total yauc oi thu product the producers u the
fisheries ~ the nc states las not yet been ucaniteiy
determined hut IL will doubtless prove 30 5e somewhere
between forty o1d nf'y millions %, dolars or The thirty
states and Territories whose citizens engaged IN
tIc fishery industry, seventeen have more than =
Thousand pro-; ssohal fishermen. Tho most important
- hr- STATE. .~ 81 "oIrse. Massachusetts, with from
eighteen % twenty-five thousand Second stands
Maine. VIII ten 10 twelve thousand unless indeed the
sixteen thousand oy.'or1rn OF virginia md The Eileen
o. q ti,, t,.t. f,r
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. IN, ,,n
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~ salmon Fishermen 100 in uumh,r. Florida with
lion. Connecticut Aud California with about 2.H'"
..'. 80 ,'.i. tii t.,,I
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.. .,., 800
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I'D ih' '-H'''.1 "' ~" ''-.'''L l"'i' are iH''i'F
pot c-. Than 20" Iof'n:l'-' ii"i5 natives ~ the
A2'r.> tul rf OBJ" 3D." DE Frni I-.h1i- Most ~ the
Fortu-u,sr h.t' oI-ht ti " families with them, AMI
h,tc huit up ftt'a-lrr eommrniur, IN o." towns
vlru,c thcy -,u upon toi- t-hps 'nyHert There ore
a.o aaolt 1000 S,ladiuat Iaus 200 more OF IssA
a.d English birth, = considerable number Of ir'aeh.
Italians. Auatrpn-, Miuprcan-. ~ia'-. Gl,c.-. span
iar- AMI Germans. Ia thc wAD.ing fleet me- br iouni
Ia.rar' Malay and lIi-er upn.n'r %; kanas'-. "s
ntiFcs - Oh" various south 1ea i'i'nl- In iuH "h'ie
fishery - south rg y, WIN -lnt 70 ,'r-i rah" number
or men ~ partial Indian descent mns Dee found and m
the h-h"r'-"f thc great aa"s-'-''"y th"S' 81 Lake
superior and Tie v''"y ~ NacaiIa" Indians and in'
dls, lal, lrrc,l- arr onpoyed.
To-. ..i,., ,., .,Ir ..s.r,,s ~ r,,..,, ..,.l AR,
r.
Am,.a where tlr population, do,,.nd. almost entirely
uro, Che n4hcrl,. rr spport the head Of every family
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T" I7"'''-'"~' '' ii"'' 81" I''" ''9 'o '7''i'''
oh fourth ~ th. uhAhit,uts ~ A-kn should Dee con
sI,,ea . H-l,ru,u Tr ~ them catch n,h f1r the use
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one Chlnnmnn ha- ~ yet cnroil'd himoef among the
Fishermen ~ the Atlantic co-t. hut IN california aud
orc-'r there are about TOGO o. tho soc men, al ~ whom.
excepting Ah"1t 800 W" cnpi 'ed a. hcto' hands 10