SHAD FISHERIES OP THE ATLANTIC COAST. 



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caught each year in pound neta. Between Cape Cod and the eastern 

 part of Maine mackerel boats catch several thousand shad, and a few 

 are taken in pound nets set on the coast, 97,5(>5, being- thus taken in 

 1890, making- a total of 115,(576 shad taken in 1896 along the ocean 

 shore, against a total of 113,937,753 taken within the coast line. 



The following table shows by water-courses the number of persons 

 employed in the shad fisheries in 1896: 



Statement, by water areas, of the number of men employed in each branch of the ahad 

 Jisheries of the Atlantic coast in 1896. 



