REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 121 



A consideration of the quantities of mackerel taken with each kind 

 of apparatus shows the preponderating importance of the purse seine 

 as a means of capture. Of the 47,946 barrels of salt mackerel landed 

 in 1892, 42,650 barrels were caught with seines, and of the 7,411,113 

 pounds of fresh fish taken in the same year, 1,202,686 pounds were 

 secured in seines. The largest quantities of the mackerel sold fresh 

 are, however, obtained in pound nets, the catch in 1892 being 3,915,037 

 pounds. 



In the following table detailed figures are given showing by States, 

 for the years 1890, 1891, and 1892, the quantity and value of salt and 

 fresh mackerel taken with the different appliances. 



Table showing by apparatus with which taken the quantity and value of the Xeie England 



mackerel catch in 1S90, 1S01, and 1892. 



Apparatus. 



1890. 

 Salt fish: 



Seines barrels . 



Gill nets do... 



Pound nets do.. . 



Lines do. .. 



Total 



Fresh fish: 



Seines pounds. 



Gill nets do... 



Pound nets do. .. 



Lines do. . . 



Total 



1891. 

 Salt fish : 



Seines barrels 



("■ill nets do.. 



Pound nets do. . 



Lines do. . 



Total 



Fresh ii.-h : 



Seines pounds. . 



ti ill nets do 



Pound nets do 



Lines do 



Total 



1892. 

 Salt fish : 



Seines barrels. 



G ill nets do... 



Pound nets do. .. 



Lines do. .. 



Total 



Fresh fish: 



Seines pounds. 



Gill nets do. . . 



Pound nets do. . . 



Lines do. . . 



Total 



3U5, 839 



