REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



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55. Table allowing by apjmratus and species the yield of the shore fisheries of 



Rhode Island in 18S7 and 18S8, exclusive of the shellfish 



and crustacean fisheries. 



Apparatus. 



Pound nets. 



Gill nets. 



Species. 



Fyke nets . 



Pots 



Haul seines 



Alewives 



Alewives, salted... 

 Alewives, smoked. 



Bluefish 



Butterfish 



Eels .. 



Flounders 



Kingfish 



Scup 



Sea bass . . 



Shad..' 



Smelt 



Squeteague 



Striped bass 



Tautog 



Miscellaneous fish* 

 Refuse fishf 



Total .... ... 



Bluefish 



Butterfish 



Squeteague 



Total 



Flounders 



Eels 



Alewives 



1887. 



Pounds. 



681,^00 

 10,000 

 80,000 

 53,500 



262,000 

 75,000 



313,300 



8,000 



3,027,200 



485,300 



7,500 



40,000 



252,000 

 50,000 

 25,000 

 76,500 



860,000 



Value. 



$10,230 



200 

 1,250 

 3,076 

 9,240 

 3,000 

 8,566 



320 

 75,460 

 12,640 



562 

 2,000 

 9,660 

 4,250 



950 

 1,148 

 1,090 



6,307,100 I $143,642 



218,500 

 1,000 



$16,170 

 20 

 410 



228,500 I $16,600 



93,000 

 198.000 



$2,410 

 12,250 



1.000 I 



20 



Pounds. 



664,300 



15,600 



95,000 



65,800 



277,700 



111,000 



408,000 



8,500 



4,206,000 



496,300 



8,400 



42,200 



255,850 



73,000 



52,000 



118,000 



1,396,000 



8,293,650 



230,700 

 1,800 

 10,650 



243,150 



125,800 

 161,000 



2.500 



Value. 



$10,170 

 325 



1,552 



3,948 



9,704 



5,994 



9,545 



298 



84,430 



14,976 



588 



2,153 



10,692 



6,032 



2,070 



1,580 



1,756 



$165,813 



$13,842 



373 



$14,251 



$3,145 

 8,635 



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* Miscellaneous fish includes the cheaper grades of food-fishes, as flatfish, flounders, scup, sque- 

 teague, etc., which have been taken in small quantities and shipped without regard to quantities of 

 diflerent species; also, species of infrequent occurrence not suliiciently important to separate. 



t Principally sculpin and menhaden used in the production of oil and fertilizer, and a few other 

 species unfit for market because of their small size or deterioration in quality. 



