The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-16
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OUR CONNECTICUT FISHERIES

Persons who think there was noth- ing doing in the fisheries of Connecti- cut last year should read and Inform themselves. Our busy Connecticut year menhaden weighing S.636, 600 pounds and worth s93,350; alewhops. 1,025,2 200 pounds. $12,150; cod, s20. 300 7o7. 100 pounds, sai, ,sso; swordfish, s4o.. 900 pounds, s14,600; weakfish, 1S0, 200 pounds, s6,s00; shad, 122,300 pounds, SIS. .140; mackere1, 122, 2,O00 pounds, $S, ,S6O; scup. s4.7oo pounds ss.52o, and ..mis- eel pots yielded 110.700 pounds of wriggling eel, worth $9,070; their lob ster pots 661, 300 pounds of philosophic lobster, worth $84, ,2S0. The 1898 out industry was 12.600 bushels of hard clans and 4,200. bushels of soft clans. worth $204 and $5,530 respectively. The Connecticut oyster beds yielded 3,94S.100 bushels of oysters, worth $2,- 5s2. $40. Other sea-spoils that swelled the wealth of our Connecticut fisher men last year were 49,100 pounds of sperm and sea-eiephant oil, 1.7O0 skins. worth $23,5S0, $7,250 and $6.020 respectively. AThe census bureau says so. It figures out the cash value of ! the 1908 catch of the Connecticut fish 720.
 Of the 2,147 Connecticut men en- gagged in the fisheries last year, 952 were boss fishermen-captains cour- for wages. They did their fishing in 237 vessels and 1,075 boats, worth $795,364 and $120,517 respectively. | They took along $196.317 worth of ! in their business, 76 seines, worth $9,- 570; 109 pound-nets and trap-nets. worth s20, ,4sO; 301 fyke nets and hoop nets, worth s2,04o; 169 giIl-nets, worth
 s6.2S0; 16.725 pots. eels and lobster,
 worth SPA, 4,9s0; eleven guns, worth
 $33O and $3,610 worth of lines, spears l and harpoons. The cash capital in-
 vested in the Connecticut fisheries last
 year was-according to the census bu- l reau-$572,29 ,290, and the value of the 1 shore and accessory property was | s513, ,230.
 Fishing is a very old industry here
 in Connecticut-perhaps the very old | est of all. Some of the Rev. Thomas
 Rockers. parishioners were (probably, | at it before Hartford was day old In the minutes of General Court hel6 here September g, 1641, we find: ''The Gouvernour, MT. Phelps and Capter
 Mason are desiered to treat with MT Phenicke Fenwick) conserneing lib l erty for making salt in Long Island
 and takeing fishe, who haue powel
 also to contract with whom they car
 procure for effecting the same" Ma! 25, 1647, we find this: ''Yf MT. Whit ing with any others shall make tryal J and prosecute a designe for the take
 ing of Whale within these libertyes
 and if vppon tryall within the term'
 of two yeares they shall like to zoe on noe others shalbe suffered to interrup
 them, for the tearme of seauel yeares."
 One of the acts promulgated b.
 Governor Andros and his council il the days of the Usurpation was "Al Act for regulating the Fishing trad
 and FiShermen"-June 1, 1887. It's
 curiosity: it ends thus:
 And all fishermen that are or Shal be shipped upon a fishing voyage fo
 the whole summer shall not presum
 to break off their voyage before tn last of October without the consent O the owner, master and share-men, ol penalty of forty shillings, besides al damages that shall be occasione thereby. All penalties, fines and for 5 1 feitures arising by this act to be, tn one-half to his Majesty, his heirs an
 successors, and the other half to hir or them that shall inform and sue fo 7 minion."
 2 We'd be sorry to think there wa 3 anywhere a Connecticut Yankee S ] as to need telling that it was a pro r posed act to amend an act to regulat 5 the shad and -alewife fishery which tn lGeneral Assembly went on with, afte = Abraham Davenport finished his ad ! | mirable remarks and the candles wer l brought in. Shad were p1entier the
 | than they are now and cheaper, alas
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