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U. S. BUREAU OP FISHERIES 



Fisheries of the United States and Alaska, 1929 — Continued 



OPERATING UNITS: By sections 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars; that is, 000 omitted] 



Items 



New Eng- 

 land 



Middle 

 Atlantic 



Chesapeake 



South At- 

 lantic an<l 

 Gulf 1 



Fishermen: 



On vessels , 



On boats and shore. 



Total 



Vessels: 



Steam 



Net tonnage. 

 Motor.. 



Net tonnage. 

 Sail 



Net tonnage. 



Total vessels 



Total net tonnage. 



Boats: 



Motor 



Other 



Apparatus: 



Haul seines. 



Purse seines 



Otter trawls (including all types and sizes). 



Gill nets... _. 



Trammel nets 



Pound nets, trap nets, and weirs 



Stop nets 



Fyke nets.. 



Bag nets and pocket nets 



Other nets * 



Hooks, baits, or snoods 



Fish wheels 



Eel pots and traps 



Lobster pots 



Crab and crawfish pots, traps, drags, etc... 



Clam dredges 



Crab dredges 



Mussel dredges 



Oyster dredges 



Scallop dredges and drags 



Crab scrapes 



Tongs, rakes, hoes, forks, etc 



Sponge apparatus 



Other apparatus • 



Number 

 6,199 

 10 961 



Number 

 4,787 

 5,704 



Number 

 2,586 

 15, 884 



Number 

 3,298 

 23, 345 



17, 160 



10, 491 



18, 470 



55 



8, 805 



671 



17, 589 



5 



36 



19 



2, 550 



479 



6, 973 



85 



2,170 



30 



3,118 



95 



1,120 



281 



3,101 



731 

 26, 430 



583 

 11,699 



406 

 7,339 



5,093 



6, 524 



220 



179 



656 



14, 645 



1,800 

 2,596 



375 



39 



224 



2,447 



7,915 

 5, 500 



394 



47 



614 



378 



181 



201 



, 688, 392 



047 



85 



4,773 



31 



318 



670, 151 



2,970 



5 



3,307 



1, 590 

 1, 288, 960 



•'. ' 



345, 824 



3, 943 



94 



7.859 



47, 673 



74 



S3 



2 



13, 102 



124 



1 



273 



3,399 



677 

 1,102 



3,638 

 ""'502' 



3,201 

 "2O8" 



916 



819 



1, 095 



9,772 



524 



8,961 



90 



1,388 



614 

 10, 349 



6, 837 

 10, 704 



1,290 



71 



2. 396 



18,041 



512 



2, 785 



1 



3.818 



2.802 



357, 491 



20 



1,523 



6, 708 



1 



4.53 



662 

 703 



4. 872 



3-29 



1,236 



See footnotes at end of table. 



