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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 

 Summary by counties 



CONNECTICUT 



In 1924 Connecticut ranked third among the New England States 

 in the size and value of her fisheries. There were 1,298 persons en- 

 gaged in it, including 571 on fishing vessels, 17 on transporting 

 vessels, and 707 in shore or boat fisheries. The investment amounted 

 to $1,593,472, which included 130 fishing and transporting vessels, 

 valued, together with their outfits, at $1,010,667; 385 motor boats 

 valued at $263,075; 511 sail and row boats valued at $25,605; fishing 

 gear and apparatus valued at $61,301, and shore and accessory 

 property valued at $232,821. The products of the fisheries amounted 

 to 25,769,516 pounds, valued at $2,006,658. The most important 

 products were oysters, 8,020,292 pounds, valued at $1,326,056; flound- 

 ers, 4,415,927 pounds, valued at $197,507; lobsters, 701.647 pounds, 

 valued at $240,809; and menhaden, 5,270,020 pounds, valued at 

 $56,437. 



Fis/ieries. — The yield of fishery products by vessels totaled 

 15,878,216 pounds/ valued at $1,495,943. The yield by dredges 

 amounted to 7,753,718 pounds of oysters, valued at $1,282,100, making 

 this by far the most important gear operated in the vessel fisheries. 

 Otter trawls were next, with a yield of 2,046,360 pounds, valued at 

 $94,581, consisting mostly flounders. Purse seines followed, with 

 a yield of 5,387,150 pounds, valued at $65,245, which consisted largely 

 of menhaden with lesser amounts of mackerel and squeteagues. 

 Lines, harpoons, lobster pots, tongs, and eel pots, named in order 

 of importance, took the remainder of the yield by fishing vessels. 



The yield of the shore and boat fisheries amounted to 9,891,300 

 pounds, valued at $510,715. Lobster pots produced the most valuable 

 share, consisting of 684,923 pounds of lobsters valued at $233,950. 

 Otter trawls were next, with 2,397,165 pounds, valued at $103,257, 

 consisting almost entirely of flounders. Tongs were third, with a 

 yield of 5,520,217 pounds of shells and shellfish, valued at $31,581; 

 dredges took 160,299 pounds of oysters and scallops, valued at 

 $26,218; and lines yielded 313,292 pounds of various kinds of fish, 

 valued at $24,477. Gill nets, rakes, pound and trap nets, haul seines, 

 fyke nets, eel pots, harpoons, spears, purse seines, dip nets, crab pots, 

 and minor apparatus, named in order of importance, took the re- 

 mainder of the products in the shore and boat fisheries. 



