290 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
men with 10 dories. The method of fishing practiced is termed ‘‘ bob- 
bing.” The apparatus consists of a short pole with a line attached, by 
which is suspended a ball of fine twine interwound with angleworms. 
The eels, in their attempt to secure the worms, entangle we teeth 
in the twine and are quickly drawn into the boat 
The cunner fishery from Boston in 1902 was carried on near the 
islands in Boston Harbor by 9 fishermen with 3 boats. The catch 
was taken with hoop nets, or fyke nets, and amounted to 38,400 dozen, 
or 57,600 pounds of cunners, valued at $3,840. The boats made two 
trips a week during eight months of the year, and averaged 200 dozen 
eunners each, toa trip. The fish were of small size, weighing about 
2 ounces each, and sold for an average of 10 cents a dozen. These 
boats are the last of the ‘‘Irish market boats,” being about 4 tons 
each and similar to those used in Ireland. Formerly from 80 to 40 
sailboats of this kind engaged in taking cunners, flounders, and her- 
ring in and near Boston Harbor; but in recent years the owners who 
continued fishing have changed to large vessels as their boats were 
worn out or lost. 
Barnstable County had 2,251 persons employed in its’ fisheries. 
The number of vessels engaged in fishing and transporting was 124, 
valued at $223,225, having a net tonnage of 3,320 tons, and outfit 
ralued at 891,729; the number of boats in the shore fisheries was 
934, valued at $72,275; the apparatus of capture on vessels and boats 
was valued at $156,024; the shore and accessory property in the fish- 
eries and wholesale fishery trade at $146,073; and the cash capital 
was $29,500, the total investment being $718,826. The yield was 
36,156,018 pounds, valued at $932,828. 
Pane incetown, which is the principal fishing port in this county, 
had 1,001 persons employed in its fisheries; of this number 673 were 
on vessels, 254 on boats, and 74 were shoresmen. ‘There were 66 ves- 
sels in the food fans and 4 in the whale fisheries, a total of 70 ves- 
sels, valued at $169,425, the net tonnage of which was 2,814 tons and 
the value of their outfit $77,944. The vessels in the food fisheries 
included 3 small steamboats and 1 vessel propelled by gasoline. There 
were 9 vessels engaged in the eod fisheries on the Grand Banks of 
Newfoundland; 2 large vessels and 30 small ones varying from 5 to 20 
tons each fished for mackerel; 20 of the larger vessels fished for cod 
and haddock on Georges, Browns, and other banks off the New Eng- 
land coast, and many small vessels and boats, during the summer 
months, took ground-fish, mackerel, and herring in the inshore 
waters. The number of peace in the shore Galeries: including 11 
power boats using steam or gasoline, was 226, raha at $24,820. 
The apparatus of capture used on vessels Ceeeece chiefly of band 
and trawl lines to the value of $11,048; 1,308 gill nets, $10,626, and 
