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FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 



Dip nets andfyJce nets. — Dip nets are used only in the shore 

 fisheries, the catch by this apparatus in 1905 consisting of 2,770,500 

 pounds of herring, worth $30,500, and 916,100 pounds of alewives, 

 worth $10,912. The nets are used in Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Nor- 

 folk, and Plymouth counties. 



The catch by fyke nets was 68,700 pounds, worth $3,328, of which 

 eels constituted over 80 per cent, the remainder being flounders, 

 cunncrs, tomcod, Avhite perch, alewives, and tautog. 



Statemen'i', by Counties, of the Catch by Dip Nets and Fyke Nets in the Shore 

 Fisheries of Massachusetts in 1905. 



