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apparatus. Dip nets were used extensive!}^ in the alewife and herring 

 fisheries, the yield being 1,127,635 pounds of alewivcs, fresh, salted, 

 and smoked, valued at $13,872, and 1,820,000 pounds of herring, fresh, 

 valued at $9,875. Fyke nets for eels caught 59,984 pounds of that 

 species, worth $2,892. The catch of minor apparatus of various kinds 

 by vessels was 316,667 pounds of eels and squid, $9,500, and by boats 

 168,201 pounds of cunners, eels, flounders, and perch, $9,210. Drag 

 nets for flounders were fished only in Barnstable County, the catch by 

 vessels being 272,500 pounds, $4,256, and by boats 494,350 pounds, 

 $4,308. The catch of sword-fish by vessels with harpoons was 597,186 

 pounds, $35,280. The products secured by guns, harpoons, etc., in 

 the whale fisheries consisted of whale oil, including sperm and black-fish 

 Oils, 415,927 gallons, $199,023; sea-elephant oil, 63,000 gallons, $20,790; 

 and whalebone, 27,100 pounds. $65,875, a total of 3,619,050 pounds, 

 worth $285,688. Included in this are the products of vessels from 

 New Bedford, Mass., which sail from San Francisco, Cal. 



The following series of tables shows, by counties, species, and appa> 

 ratus, the quantity and value of the products taken in the vessel and 

 shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1898: 



Table showing^ by 



f counties, the yield of the seine fisheries of Massachusetts in 1898. 



Species. 



Essex. 



Suifolk. 



Plymouth. 



Nantucket. 



Lbs. 



Value. Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Vessel fisheries: 

 Blue-fish 





1 









65, 000 



$3,412 



Herring, fresh 



8, 953, 397 



»183,639 



60, 087 



78, 654 



122, 672 



2,350 



103 



164,400 



843, 600 



63,500 



128,800 



$2, 676 

 9,300 

 5,080 

 9,660 



69,800 



$696 







Herring, salted 



4,482,599 



1,391,978 



2,220,781 



340,900 



20, 520 







Mackerel, fresh 



60,000 



4,800 







Mackerel, salted 







Menhaden -. 





1 





Pollock 









1 





Oil, fish 



450 18 

























1 



Total 



17,410,625 



447,423 1,200,300 



26, 716 



129,800 



5,496 1 65,000 3,412 







Shore fisheries: 



, Alewives, fresh 









50,000 

 5,600 



600 

 70 



1 





Alewives, salted 



1 







1 





Blue-fish 



1 







.' ii6,666 



1,000 

 1,600 



5,500 



Scup 



1 











30 



Squeteague 



i 1 









48 















Total 



1 ; 





55,600 



670 1 112,600 



5, 578 











• Total vessel and 

 shore 



17,410,625 447,423 1,200,300 



1 



26,716 



185,400 



6,166 177,600 



8,990 







Species. 



Barnstable. Dukes. 



Bristol. 



Total. 



Lbs. 



Value. Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Vessel fisheries: 

 Blue-fish 



71,750 

 21, 660 

 60,000 



$3,092 



433 



1,300 



1,000 



$60 







137, 760 



21,660 



60,000 



10,000 



9,279 397 



5,581,559 



1,650,373 



2, 633, 381 



918,900 



458,860 



40,000 



2,750 



450 



$6,564 



Cod 







433 



Eels 











1,300 



Flounders 



10,000 



125 







125 



Herring, fresh 



91,800 

 255. .S60 



634 



3,360 



7,946 



15, 193 



3, 612 







187,545 



Herring, salted 











72, 747 



Mackerel, fresh 1 134, 895 











%,480 



Mackerel, salted 28.S. 800 











147, 525 



Menhaden 



578,000 











5,962 



Pollock 



438,340 



2,192 











2,295 



Squeteague 





40,000 



400 







400 



Striped bass 



2,750 



250 







250 



Oil, fish 











18 





' 











Total 



1,938,355 ?A.M'?. 1 51.000 



585 







20,795,080 



521,644 







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