Report On the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas
The book Report On the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas was written by author Lorenzo Sabine Here you can read free online of Report On the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Report On the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas a good or bad book?
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Seasons occur when those engaged in it lose the use and outfits of their vessels, and the wages of their men. Sometimes the quality of the fish is so poor, that an average "catch" affords no profit; at others, the success of the British colonists gluts our markets. Mean- time, the most enterprising masters and owners, discouraged by repeated disappointments and losses,, . abandon the business, and suflfer their wharves and packing-houses ib go to decay. In 1851 the fishermen were fortunate. The... number of vessels em- ployed in Massachusetts was eight hundred and fifty-three. The fishery in our own waters, and in the colonial bays, was alike successliil; and these vessels, with eighty-seven others, owned in other States, but whose fish were inspected in Massachusetts, caught three hundred and twenty- nine thousand barrels. 187 ' The following statistical information, which relates to these nine hundred and forty vessels, is derived from returns
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