326 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES, 
70. Table showing by species and apparatus the yield of the fisheries of New York in 1887, 
exclusive of the shellfish, crustacean, and reptilian fisheries. 
Species. 
Seines. 
Gill nets. 
Pound nets. 
Fyke nets. 
Pounds 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
175, 000 
192, 090 
5, 000 
$1, 950 
12, 030 
198 
5, 000 
454, 670 
$55 
27, 110 
54, 000 
564, 460 
7, 800 
326, 000 
$615 
34, 925 
286 
10, 235 
15, 800 
14, 700 
$180 
890 
3, 000 
5, 300 
150 
290 
3, 260 
79, 705 
118, 780 
230 
5,180 
4, 128 
4, 210 
325 
Flounders . ............. 
7,350 
256 
227, 410 
7, 914 
1, 088, 900 
38, 495 
H a 1 i h n t, 
Kingfish 
21, 050 
2, 245 
17, 000 
1, 782 
28, 400 
3, 600 
2, 046, 600 
2,554 
395 
5,322 
520 
44 
Mackerel 
Menhaden 
68, 936, 450 
344, 500 
22, 000 
139, 300 
160, 832 
1, 935 
1, 230 
6, 825 
12, 000 
55 
53, 320 
200 
Minnows 
Mullet 
Perch. 
62, 565 
2, 000 
31, 300 
3, 170 
175 
2, 552 
2, 450 
156 
43, 700 
300 
2, 225 
26 
Pike 
Sea bass 
46, 560 
117, 300 
3, 645 
218 
98, 600 
233, 000 
131, 600 
2, 600 
392, 720 
8, 750 
9, 600 
27, 100 
8, 600 
34, 620 
7, 800, 000 
6, 895 
480 
6,221 
580 
23, 526 
860 
530 
1, 600 
465 
1, 260 
12, 100 
Sea- robins . 
Shad 
328, 440 
12, 365 
167, 150 
5, 465 
Spanish maekerel 
930 
281, 860 
20, 680 
160 
14, 274 
1 , 760 
Squeteague orweakfish 
Striped bass 
382, 360 
29, 120 
20, 984 
2, 346 
66, 450 
28, 230 
2, 908 
2, 973 
Sturgeon __ __ 
Tautog 
4, 250 
2, 250 
46, 000 
• 254 
120 
1 , 480 
12, 400 
4, 500 
28, 400 
688 
230 
915 
7, 650 
60, 200 
21, 200 
133, 300 
398 
1, 936 
935 
200 
Tomcod or frost fish - - - 
Miscellaneous species. . 
Refuse fish 
Total 
70, 556, 965 
218, 694 
1, 381, 315 
73, 008 
12, 007, 910 
116, 919 
1, 709, 720 
57, 315 
Species. 
Lines. 
Pots. 
Spears. 
Total. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Alewives 
• 
249, 800 
2,852, 310 
20, 600 
329, 000 
20, 220 
3, 455, 240 
1, 218, 730 
1, 722, 380 
11, 160 
79. 270 
7, 300 
71, 048, 370 
347, 400 
22, 000 
252, 015 
2, 300 
319, 420 
250, 300 
627, 190 
5, 330 
1, 504, 560 
115, 380 
9, 600 
150, 000 
129, 950 
192, 540 
7, 933, 300 
$2, 800 
175, 745 
814 
10, 385 
1,355 
114, 435 
94, 196 
61, 017 
645 
7, 670 
805 
166, 409 
2, 095 
1, 230 
12, 626 
201 
26, 600 
698 
24, 051 
1, 140 
82, 587 
11, 059 
530 
7, 814 
5, Oil 
7, 430 
12, 300 
"Rhiefish 
1, 626, 390 
7,800 
$100, 790 
330 
Fonitn 
Tin tier fish 
(Ta.tfi sb 
7, 450 
3,455, 240 
510 
114, 435 
find _ _ _ _ 
Pels 
879, 705 
$66, 040 
259, 320 
125, 300 
$22, 976 
3, 504 
Flounders 
154, 640 
11,160 
12, 300 
3, 700 
6, 720 
645 
1, 045 
410 
TTa.lihn t 
Fingfish 
Mackerel 
Menhaden 
Minnows 
2, 900 
160 
Mullet 
Perch 
4, 000 
250 
Pike 
. 
Sea, ba,ss . _ 
142,960 
13, 508 
Sea, -robins 
Sha.d 
Spanish mackerel 
1, 800 
381, 170 
28, 600 
400 
20, 895 
3, 112 
Squeteague orweakfish 
Striped bass 
Sturgeon 
Tautog 
98, 600 
54, 400 
62, 320 
4, 874 
2, 260 
2, 840 
Tomcod or frostfish . . . 
Miscellaneous species. . 
Refuse fish 
Total 
6, 055, 430 
273, 192 
879, 705 
66, 040 
384, 620 
26, 480 
92, 975, 665 
831,648 
