The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Vol. 4

Excerpt from The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Vol. 4: Prepared Through the Co-Operation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superintendent of the Tenth Census; The Fishermen of the United States Of the twenty-nine States and Territories whose citizens are engaged in the fishery industry, sixteen have more than a thousand professional fishermen each. The most important of these is Massachusetts, with men; second stands Maine, with unless, indeed, the oystermen of Virginia and the of Maryland are allowed to swell the totals for those States. Maine, however, stands second so far as the ocean fisheries proper are concerned. In geographical areas the Southern Atlantic States rank first in the number of fishermen, wit-h men; followed by the New England States, with the Middle States, exclusive of the Great Lakes, with the Pacific States and Territories, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.