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V. Fisheries

At the census of 1880 the fisheries of the United States employed 131,426 persons, the capital invested was £7,591,700, and the value of the products (including seal and whale fisheries) was £8,600,000; the number of vessels engaged was 6,605, of 208,297 tons, In 1889 the capital invested in the whale and seal fisheries was $2,081,636; the number of vessels was 101, of 22,660 tons, valued at $1,791,173; the value of products landed was $1,834,551; persons employed, 3,513. In 1890 the Arctic whale-fishing yielded 226,402 lbs. of whale-bone, 3,980 lbs. of ivory, and 14,567 barrels of oil. In the years 1884-90 the product of the Alaska Salmon Canneries was nearly $7,000,000; the value of the seal and other furs shipped from Alaska to London (1867-90) is given at $49,000,000; in 1889 the fur seal and sea-otter industry yielded $124,983. COMMERCE.

The subjoined table gives the total value, in dollars, of the imports and exports of merchandise in the years ended June 30, 1879 and 1887-91:- Year (ended June 30).