Show FISHERIES BUSINESS CENSUS bulletin contains statistics representing the business done out of united states ports in 1889 in the whale fur sea seal and sea otter fisheries the capital invested in the pelagic or ocean whale fishery was in the shore whale fishery and the fur seal and sea otter fishery there were vessels employed in the whale fishery aggregating tons tens and valued at As compared with 1880 a decrease of 41 per cent is shown in the number of vessels of 42 per cent in the net tonnage and of 38 per cent in the value of vessels 1 including outfits outfit and apparatus the total number of persons employed in the whale fishery was in shore whaling 74 and in the fur seal and sea otter fishery makini making a grand total tal of the whale fleet was distributed as follows behring sea and arctic ocean 42 atlantic 36 and japan 9 south pacific 8 indian ocean 6 of these vessels new bedford sent out 57 san francisco 27 provincetown Province town mass 9 ed edgartown Edgar gar town mass 3 new london and stonington conn two each and boston 1 |