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445,000 pounds, §2,459; mackerel, 315,250 pounds, $16,618, and squid, 

 5,365,076 pounds, $25,340. The remaining species, aggregating 1,170,- 

 799 j)ounds, valued at |34,543, were bonito, butter-fish, flounders, ale- 

 wives, blue-fish, cod, cunners, eels, hake, hickory shad, sea bass, 

 striped bass, sturgeon, tautog, tomcod, shad, and horse mackerel. 



The catch with dredges, tongs, rakes, etc., comprised 03^sters, 103,- 

 386 bushels, $133,682; hard clams, 106,518 bushels, $130,839; soft 

 clams, 227,941 bushels, $157,247; scallops, 65,925 bushels, $89,832, 

 and cockles, 2,000 bushels, $5,600. 



The oysters were taken chiefly with tongs, the clams with rakes, 

 hoes,^ etc., the scallops with dredges, and the cockles were mostly 

 picked up b}" hand. At Wellfleet rakes which have been recentl}^ intro- 

 duced are used quite extensively in taking hard clams. These rakes 

 have an iron frame 26 inches long and 8 inches wide, and from 18 to 

 21 teeth 4^ inches long. A bag of wire netting 3 feet long is attached 

 to the frame to catch the clams as they are raked from the bottom. 

 The handle is a strong ash or oak pole from 20 to 40 feet long, accord- 

 ing to the depth of water in which the rake is to be used, and weighs 

 from 8 to 12 pounds. The cost of the apparatus is $7. 



Lobster pots, which are the only apparatus emplo3'ed in the lobster 

 fishery, took 1,695,688 pounds of lobsters, the value of which was 

 $175,095; dip nets secured 1,428,000 pounds of alewives, $17,001, and 

 680,000 pounds of herring, $5,100; fyke nets, 16,725 pounds of eels, 

 $1,014, and 6,000 pounds of flounders, $180; eel weirs, 49,687 pounds 

 of eels, $1,950; cunner nets and pots, eel pots, and spears, 23,500 

 pounds of cunners, $1,410; eels, 326,332 pounds, $15,866, and floun- 

 ders, 4,300 pounds, $150; beam trawls, used in Barnstable County but 

 not elsewhere in the United States in the commercial fisheries, 1,419,809 

 pofunds of flounders, $43,169, and minor forms of apparatus, 135,410 

 pounds of several different species, valued at $6,662. The catch of 

 sword-fish with harpoons in the vessel and shore fisheries was 750,126 

 pounds, worth $57,746. The products taken with harpoons, bomb 

 guns, lances, etc., in the whale fisheries, including the catch b}^ vessels 

 from New Bedford, Mass., which sail from San Francisco, Cal., con- 

 sisted of 684,902 gallons of whale and sperm oil, $292,875, and 19,000 

 pounds of whalebone, $90,000. 



The following tables show b}^ counties and species the quantity and 

 value of products taken with the various forms of fishing apparatus in 

 th?. vessel and shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902. 



