74 PISHEKIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 



Investment in the Fisheries of Rhode Island in 1905. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Apparatus, vessel fisheries: 



Pound nets and trap 

 nets 



Purse seines 



Gill nets 



Lines, hand and trawl 



Pots, iolister 



Pots, eel 



Harpoons 



Dredges 



Rakes 



Tongs 



Hoes 



Apparatus, shore fisheries: 



Pound nets and trap 



nets 



Items. 



Apparatus, shore fisheries- 

 Continued. 



Seines 



Gil nets 



Fyke nets 



Lines, hand and trawl. . 



Pots, lobster 



Pots, eel 



Spears 



Dip nets 



Dredges 



Rakes 



Tongs 



Hoes 



Shovels 



Shore and accessory prop- 

 erty 



Cash capital 



Total. 



Number. 



65 

 79 



776 



10,673 



3,421 



61 



7 



76 

 54 

 452 

 322 



Value. 



S5, 725 



3,188 



4,647 



500 



12,955 



2,544 



48 



7 



514 



195 



1,981 



267 



52 



325, 100 

 25,500 



1,065,426 



Products. — The value of the fishery products in tlie two 3^ears 

 under consideration has increased from $1,155,701 to $1,546,658, or 

 33 per cent. The principal item in this increase has been oysters, 

 the value of which in 1902 amounted to $588,052, while in 1905 it 

 was $929,963, or 58 per cent greater. Aside from this the products 

 show a slight increase, from $567,649 in 1902 to $616,695 in 1905. 

 Principal among the other products showing an increase are butter- 

 fish, $10,407 to $18,714; cod, from $20,652 to $33,983; flatfish and 

 flounders, from $27,839 to $35,428; mackerel, from $32,950 to 

 $48,054; pollock, from $300 to $5,339; squeteague, $75,853 to 

 $86,478; swordfish, from $6,743 to $17,864; lobsters, from $39,488, 

 to $64,358, and clams, from $32,514 to $39,543. The principal 

 decreases in the value of the products from 1902 to 1905 have been 

 scallops, from $25,208 to $420; bluefish, from $9,416 to $6,397; bonito, 

 from $3,860 to $415; eels, from $22,290 to $17,545, and shad, from 

 $2,465 to $1,509. 



Products of the Fisheries of Rhode Island in 1905. 



