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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Persoxs Engaged, Investment, and Products op Fisheries of Rhode Island 

 IN 1919, BY Counties — Continued. 



> 19,629 bushels. 2 40,376 bushels. .15,666 bushels. < 1,000 l)uslieis. ^ i,050 bushels. « 894,537 bushels. 

 fisheries by apparatus. 



The combined yield of all forms of apparatus employed in the 

 vessel and shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 1919 amounted to 

 48,2.50,883 pounds, valued at $3,296,578. Dredges employed prin- 

 cipally in tne oyster vessel fishery were the most productive form of 

 apparatus, yielding 6,142,623 pounds of oysters and mussels, valued 

 at .51,217,637; while dredges, tongs, rakes, hoes, shovels, and grabs 

 used in the shore fisheries took 723,122 pounds of oysters, clams, 



