Our country and its resources; . 2 for 8,832,281 lobsters. The in-dustry shows the peculiar andanomalous condition of a steadilydecreasing output and a steadily in-creasing profit to those engaged. Intwenty-four years time the yearlycatch has decreased by more than18,000,000 pounds, or 60 per cent,while the fishermans receipts haveincreased by a million and a half dollars, or 178 per cent. In L880the lobster brought an average cents a pound. In 1913 lobstersaveraged .191 cents per pound, nearlyten times as much as in 1880 andtwo and a half times as much asin l!)O0. ALASKAN The 1914 seas
Our country and its resources; . 2 for 8,832,281 lobsters. The in-dustry shows the peculiar andanomalous condition of a steadilydecreasing output and a steadily in-creasing profit to those engaged. Intwenty-four years time the yearlycatch has decreased by more than18,000,000 pounds, or 60 per cent,while the fishermans receipts haveincreased by a million and a half dollars, or 178 per cent. In L880the lobster brought an average cents a pound. In 1913 lobstersaveraged .191 cents per pound, nearlyten times as much as in 1880 andtwo and a half times as much asin l!)O0. ALASKAN The 1914 season saw the Alaskafishing industry at its height ofvalue. It afforded employment to21,200 persons and included the in-vestment of $37,000,000. The totalvalue of the products of the Alaskanfishers is estimated at $2L2*3,0u0,an advance of over $5,500,0o0 over1913, due largely to an unusualabundance of red salmon and thehigher prices commanded by cannedsalmon. SEAL The fur seal service reports fromthe Pribilof Islands a satisfactory. FISH CULTURAL STATION, B0ZEMAN, MONTANA 72 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES condition of the seal herd. A com-plete census of the seals shows L! f,s7. ail increase of nearly L!;MHianimals over the year 1913. TheL915 census has not yet been com-pleted but indicates an increase of60,000 animals over 1014. M l SSEL The Bureau Of Fisheries has beenconducting a general canvass offresh-water mussel fishing, whichha:, been in progress for several with supervision of propagation anddistribution of food and game fishesand scientific investigations into all matters pertaining to tisli. In 1914the enormous quantity of 44i88,757,-^<H» tish and ova were greater proportion of this, ofcourse, was egg and not tish. butfingerling, yearling and adult tishnumbered over 58,000,000, an in-crease of 150 per cent over this number, salmon, trout andbass contributed the larger part.
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