FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. PAS) Th 
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 pounds, 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 oysters, 103,- 
886 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 by hand. At Wellfleet rakes which have been recently 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 44 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 employed 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 
pounds of flounders, $48,169, 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 by 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 by counties and species the quantity and 
-value of products taken with the various forms of fishing apparatus in 
the vessel and shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902. 
