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catch of 903,660 pounds of various species, valued at $77,239; gill 

 nets, with 3,770,625 pounds, valued at $355,972; pound nets and 

 weirs, with 46, 663,590 pounds, valued at $1,448,822; hand lines and 

 trawl lines, with 4,523,537 pounds, valued at $401,510; dredges, with 

 22,348,286 pounds, valued at $2,676,244, consisting chiefly of oysters; 

 and tongs, rakes, hoes, etc., with 2,468,881 pounds, valuedat $481,038, 

 consisting chiefly of oysters and clams. Other forms of apparatus 

 that took considerable quantities of products were fyke nets, bag nets, 

 stop nets, dip nets, cast nets, otter trawls, eel pots, lobster pots, and 

 spears. The lobster catch, amounting to 379,841 pounds, valued at 

 $88,588, was all taken in lobster pots. The products taken with each 

 form of fishing apparatus in the vessel and shore fisheries combined 

 are shown in the appended tables : 



Yield of the fisheries of N'eir Jersey in 1921, by counties, apparatus, arid species. 

 BY PURSE SEINES AND HAUL SEINES. 



