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productive form, yielding 108,703,430 pounds, valued at $4,311,755, 

 the principal species taken being: Cod, 62,604.055 pounds, valued 

 at S2.699J86; haddock, 33,154.060 pounds, valued at 8945,599; 

 halibut, 1,649.305 pounds, valued at 8285,860; hake, 3,436,229 

 pounds, valued at 8130,755; and pollock, 4,698,115 pounds, valued 

 at SI 16,328. Otter trawls ranked second, with 58,584,932 pounds, 

 valued at 81,906.360, of which 42.593,223 pounds, valued at $1,195,- 

 092, were haddock. Gill nets, employed chiefly in the taking of 

 mackerel, pollock, haddock, and cod, yielded 18,204,216 pounds, 

 valued at $814,940. The catch with seines amounted to 14,159,335 

 pounds, valued at $792,721. The most important species taken in 

 seines was mackerel, the catch of which amounted to 8,552,827 

 pounds, valued at $738,220. Various species were taken in pound 

 nets, trap nets, and weirs to the amount of 32,314,809 pounds, 

 valued at $655,005. Other important forms of apparatus used in 

 both the vessel and shore fisheries were dredges, with 2,023,428 

 pounds of oysters, scallops, and clams, valued at $680,331; tongs, 

 rakes, hoes, and forks, with 3,387,906 pounds of oysters, scallops, 

 clams, and Irish moss, valued at $577,203; and lobster pots with 

 4,152,597 pounds of lobsters and crabs, valued at $505,817. 



The following tables give the products of the vessel and shore 

 fisheries by counties, apparatus, and species: 



Yield of Vessel Fisheries ok Massachusetts ix 1919, by Counties, Apparatus, 



AND Species. 



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