The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-24
REPORT OF NEW ENG
LAND.
Massachusetts Leads In Boats, Men and
Capital Invested.

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Massachusetts Leads In Boats, Men and
| Capital Invested.
| A bulletin recsntly issued by the Uni
| ted States fish commission affords OPP
| portunity to compare the values repre-
scented in that industry in the New
| England states The total number of
persons employed In fishing in New
| England in 1898 was 30,24S, with i 425
vessels and outfits Of 43,7S0 tons and 49,
063 boats, the total value of the invest
ment, including seines, nets of all kinds
and other apparatus, shore and accesso-
ry property, being 100000. OF the to-
tai number of persons engaged in the
fisheries, Massachusetts, furnished en-
ployment to 1864, with 637 vessels and
outfits Of 30,553 tons and 1926 boats;
Maine, II, 9S1 persons, with 495 vessels Of
S,134 tons and 5,411 boats; Connecticut
2134 tons and 5,411 boats; Connecticut,
2,473 persons, with 1876 vessels and of
1865 tons and 1850 boats; Rhode Island,
1857 persons. with ninety-three vessels
of 1,454 tons and S54 boats, and New
Hampshire, 143 persons, with five ves
sells Of sevehW-five tons and 1923 boats.
L iaC NdAuG VI SIlUIE anu o,tNSJopiy Pipp-
erty in Massachusetts was $5,001 ,64S;
Maine, 81, 192S1O; Rhode Island, $43L949;
Connecticut, $3440SG, and New Hamp-
shire, $12,775, Cash capital invested
was: MASSACHUSETTS, @,612,250; Maine,
S1,427,S75; Connecticut, $179,250 Rhode
Island, $s0,5OO; New Hampshire. $4,000
The total fish products was 337,61S,416
pounds, valued at $5,451, 729. The pro-
portion of the value of the more i'm
portant caches in the five different
states is as follows: Cod, fresh and
sailed, Massachusetts $1,407, 039, Maine
$3O4,255. Rhode Island $685. no Connect
icut s11,604, New Hampshire s1O,S26;
haddock fresh and sailed, MaSsachu-
sets $419,S1S Maine s132,351, New
Hampshire $14,652, Rhode Island $S,373.
Connecticut 1856; hake, fresh and salt
ed, Massachusetts $163,634, Maine S154,-
444, New. Hampshire $1,417;. halbut,
fresh and sailed, Massachusetts $547 440,
Maine $22,o77; herring, fresh and sailed
and smoked, Massachusetts $342547,
Maine $269,465, New Hampshire $3.50,
Rhode Island $40; mackerel, fresh and
sailed, Massachusetts, $361S64 Maine
s1D2,6 1874, Rhode Island $4,000 New
$3,207, Connecticut $3,761
Thus it Is seen that in the matter of the
fish foods Massachusetts is in
the lead of all the other New England
states
The total value of other products,
such as crabs, Holsters, CLAIMS. oysters, |
scallops, whale oil and whalebone, Is
81, 315, 1873, and it is in these, except seal |
ops and whale products that the Bay
state takes a lower place in the list and |
Yields to her sister states. Rhode Is !
and alone, of the five states gets credit |
or crabs, and to value of $3.50. Maine |
shows a record of Holsters to a value of |
1899 737 AGAINST STAT 702 for MasSachu-
jetts, $50, 74S for Connecticut, $43, 290 for
Rhode Island, and $9372 for New
Maine also leads in the
natter of CLANS, having 1851, 1897 of soft |
'lams to her credit, as against $104 344 |
or Massachusetts,, $20.569 for Rhode Is
and, $1S,7S9 for Connecticut and $500
or New Hampshire, while Massachu-
etts adds to her clam product quahogs
o the value Of $4S,2 Rhode Island
31,S16 and Connecticut $50, 800 Con-
iecticut Rhode Island and Massachu-
etts are the three oyster states, the for
ner with a value of $1252.S56 to its
redit, and the others S507, 37S and S162.-
"A respectively. In seallops the values
ire: Massachusetts $S6,62S, Maine A4,-