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Table 60. Importance of Various Types of Fishing Gear in the United States 

 Fisheries, Shown by Catch and Percentage Each Contributes (1945 Data). 



Total Pounds Caught 

 by Gear Specified 



Per Cent of U. S. Total, 

 Including Alaska 



Classification of 

 Fishing Apparatus 



Nets: 



Purse seines 



Otter trawls (incl. shrimp) 



Pound and trap nets 



Gill nets 



Haul, beach, and stop seines 



Dip, brail, and scoop nets 



Weir nets 



Fyke nets 



Trammel nets 



Paranzella nets 



Cast and reef nets 



Beam trawls 



Stop and bag nets 

 Lines: 



Hand, trawl, trot, etc. 

 Dredges: 



Clam, oyster, scallop, etc. 

 Pots and traps: 



Lobster, eel, fish, etc. 

 Other gear: 



Tongs, rakes, and shovels 



Crowfoot bars and scrapes 



Hoes, forks, picks, and grabs 



Spears and harpoons 



Diving outfits 



Source: "Fishery Statistics of the U. S., 1945," U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sta- 

 tistical Digest, 18. 



Table 61. Comparison of Importance of Certain Fishing Gear in 1918 and 1945. 



Gear 



Purse seines 



Otter trawls 



Pound nets, etc. 



Gill nets 



Lines 



Dredges, tongs, etc. 



Quantity of total accounted for 



99 



93.7 



