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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Persons Engaged, Investment, and Products of Fisheries op Connecticut 

 IN 1919, BY Counties — Continued. 



1 6,247 bushels. 

 » 22,915 bushels. 



» 6,400 bushels. 

 < 19,522 bushels. 



5 689,524 bushels. 



6 105,788 bushels. 



■ 927,695 bushels. 



fisheries by apparatus. 



Dredges employed in the oyster fisheries of Connecticut in 1919 

 were the most productive form of apparatus. In the vessel fisheries 

 dredges took 11,844,084 pounds, or 1,692,012 bushels, of oysters, 

 valued at $1,037,717, and in the shore fisheries dredges, tongs, rakes, 

 and hoes took oysters to the amount of 353,619 pounds, or 50,517 

 bushels, valued at S49,299, and clams to the amount of 279,126 

 pounds, or 29,162 bushels, valued at $50,982. The catch with pots 

 amounted to 768,078 pounds, valued at $192,629, of which 740,848 

 pounds, valued at $189,157, were lobsters. Otter trawls caught 

 flounders, giant scallops, and hake to the amount of 2,359,221 pounds, 

 valued at $103,031. The catch with purse seines amounted to 

 6,625,240 pounds, valued at $93,812, the principal species taken being 

 menhaden to the amount of 6,608,400 pounds, valued at $91,765. 

 Gill nets, used principally in the taking of shad, yielded 443,551 

 pounds, valued at $76,175. The quantity of shad taken with gill 

 nets amounted to 374,823 pounds, or 86,567 in number, valued at 

 $69,201, of which 53,822 were roes and 32,745 were bucks. Various 

 species were taken with lines, amounting to 201,763 pounds, valued 

 at $24,241; with pound nets, amounting to 379,371 pounds, valued 

 at $22,047; and with seines, amounting to 189,160 pounds, valued at 

 $21,680. All forms of apparatus employed in both the vessel and 

 shore fisheries yielded a total of 23,652,647 pounds, valued at 

 $1,700,638. 



