Excerpt from The Fisheries Fishery I Industries of the United States the Co-Operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries, and the Superintendent of the Census
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a geographical review of the fisheries of the United States, including the fishery districts of the Atlantic, the Gulf, and the Pacific coasts, and of the great lakes. This report has been prepared by the following-named census agents and assistants of the United States Fish Commission: Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, Mr. A. Howard Clark, Capt. Joseph W. Collins, Mr. If. Edward Earll, Mr. Richard II. Edmonds, Mr. Ernest Ingersoll, Prof. David S. Jordan, Mr. Ludwig Kumlien, Col. Marshall McDonald, Mr. Frederick Mather, Mr. Silas Stearns, Mr. Frederick W. True, and Mr. W. A. Wilcox. The manuscript of this volume was prepared for the press by Mr. R. E. Earll, and has been printed under the editorial supervision of Mr. A. noward Clark.
This report constitutes Section II of the Special Report on the Food Fishes and Fishery Industries of the United States, prepared through the co-operation of the Commission of Fish and Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census. Section 1, the Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, has already been published.
The accompanying statistical statement gives a summary of the fisheries of the country in 1880. We find that the total number of persons actually employed in the fishery industries, either as fishermen or in preparing the products for market, was 131,426, of whom 101,684 were fishermen, and the remainder shoresmen. The fishing fleet consisted of 6,605 vessels (aggregating 208,297.82 tons) and 44,804 boats, and the total amount of capital invested was $37,955,349, distributed as follows: Vessels, $9,357,282; boats, $2,465,393; minor apparatus and outfits, $8,145,261; other capital, including shore property, $17,987,413.
The value of the fisheries of the sea, of the great rivers, and of the great lakes was $43,046,053, and that of those in minor inland waters was $1,500,000; in all, $44,546,053. These values were estimated upon the basis of the prices of the products received by the producers, and, if average wholesale prices had been considered, the value would have been much greater.
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