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54. Table showing the number of vessels engaged in each fishery in Rhode Island in 1888, 
together with their tonnage , value , and number of crew. 
Fishery. 
Number 
of vessels 
engaged. 
Net ton- 
nage. 
Value of 
vessels. 
Number 
of fisher- 
men.* 
Mackerel 
30 
375. 95 
$35, 500 
136, 000 
20, 800 
25, 250 
1,600 
24, 300 
119 
225 
80 
60 
Menhaden 
12 
770. 00 
Shore 
21 
243. 91 
Swordfish. 
16 
210. 89 
Crustacean 
3 
17. 55 
9 
Mollusk 
22 
191.36 
53 
*A11 American citizens. 
55. Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of the shore fisheries of Rhode Island 
in 1887 and 1888, exclusive of the shellfish and crustacean fisheries. 
Apparatus. 
Species. 
1887. 
1888. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
| Value. 
681, 800 
10, 000 
80, 000 
$10, 230 
200 
1,250 
3, 076 
9, 240 
3, 000 
8, 566 
320 
75, 460 
12, 640 
562 
664, 300 
15, 600 
95, 000 
65, 800 
277, 700 
111, 000 
408, 000 
8, 500 
4, 206, 000 
496, 300 
8, 400 
42, 200 
255, 850 
73, 000 
52, 000 
118, 000 
1, 396, 000 
tin 1 70 
325 
1,552 
a 048 
53, 500 
Butterfish 
262, 000 
75, 000 
313, 300 
8, 000 
Of <r±u 
9,704 
5 994 
Eels 
9, 545 
298 
84, 430 
14. Q7fi 
Kingfish 
3, 027, 200 
485, 300 
7, 500 
Shad 
J.*, «/ lO 
588 
2, 153 
10, 692 
6,032 
2,070 
1, 580 
1,756 
Smelt 
40, 000 
252, 000 
50, 000 
25, 000 
76, 500 
860, 000 
2, 000 
9, 660 
Squeteague 
Striped bass 
4, 250 
950 
' 
Tautog 
Miscellaneous fish * 
1, 148 
1,090 
Refuse fisht 
Total 
6, 307, 100 
143, 642 
^8, 293, 650 
165, 813 
Gill nets 
Bliiefish 
218, 500 
1, 000 
9, 000 
16, 170 
20 
230, 700 
1,800 
10, 650 
IQ QAO 
Butterfish 
lOf 0^4 
Oft 
Squeteague 
410 
DO 
373 
Total 
228, 500 
16, 600 
243, 150 
| 14, 251 
Fyke nets 
Pots 
Flounders 
Eels 
93, 00CT 
198, 000 
27410" 
12, 250 
125, 800 
161,000 
3, 145 
j 8, 635 
Haul seines 
Alewives 
Alewives, salted 
1,000" 
315, 000 
50, 000 
2, 500 
3, 000 
45, 000 
6, 000 
61, 000 
500 
20“ 
6, 300 
1, 000 
2, 500 
399, 400 
55, 000 
4 000 
45 
8, 175 
QQQ 
Alewives, smoked 
Bluefish 
250 
ctfo 
Ann 
Butterfish 
60 
3 500 
rn 
Eels 
1,700 
45 500 
/U 
2, 457 
onn 
Flounders .. 
120 
8| 000 
60 000 
Perch or cunners 
2, 440 
20 
9 Ann 
Sea bass 
* 600 
9,000 
19, 300 
8, 500 
12, 500 
6, 250 
O 4 
Shad 
9, 200 
15, 000 
7,000 
11, 200 
5, 000 
685 
1st 
coc 
Smelt 
875 
D^O 
QQO 
Squeteague 
380 
475 
i niA 
Striped bass 
1, 074 
Tautog 
250 
1, UlO 
312 
Total 
531,400 
15, 174 
634, 050 
18, 079 
Lines 
Bluefish 
Cod 
35, 000 
70, 500 
15, 680 
14, 000 
6, 500 
225, 000 
176, 000 
50, 960 
1?, 000 
152, 000 
27100“ 
2, 170 
700 
45, 500 | 
73 000 ' 
2. 958 
2,245 
ecu 
Cod, salted 
14^ 560 
16 200 
Flounders 
310 
jinn 
Haddock 
155 
6 000 
4UU 
ijc 
Mackerel 
15, 000 
10, 560 
1, 752 
430 
199^ 800 1 
136,000 
50,400 , 
15 500 
140 
Mackerel, salted 
lO, OOU 
10, 200 
1, soo 
cn 4 
Pollock 
Sea bass 
Tautog 
6,000 
125, 250 i 
DU4 
5, 068 
Total 
757,640 
39, 177 
682,210 
40. 620 
Grand total 
8 , 115, 640 1 
229, 25 
10, 139, 860 
250,543 
Miscellaneous fish includes the cheaper grades of food-fishes, as flatfish, flounders, scup, sque- 
teague, etc., which have been taken in small quantities aud shipped without regard to quantities of 
amerent species ; also, species of infrequent occurrence not sufficiently important to separate 
t Principally sculpin aud menhaden used in the production of oil and fertilizer, and a few other 
species unfit tor market because of their small size or deterioration in quality. 
