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when the product was 7,556,665 pounds, worth $43,288. The principal 

 items in the returns for 1898 were menhaden, 4,706,900 pounds, worth 

 $9,287; flounders, 277,654 pounds, worth $7,843; squeteague, 179,893 

 pounds, worth $4,728; scup, 96,020 pounds, worth $3,288; and butter- 

 fish, 60,280 pounds, worth $2,370. 



The gill-net fishery yielded 401,511 pounds of fish in 1898, valued 

 at $17,074, of which 375,561 pounds, worth $15,680, represented the 

 shad yield. The remaining species taken by means of gill nets were 

 blue-fish, squeteague, striped bass, and alewives. 



Although fyke nets are used in every countj^ in the State in which 

 fisheries are prosecuted, the fishery is of comparatively little impor- 

 tance, the total yield amounting to only 213,083 pounds, worth $6,096. 

 The principal item in this total was flounders, the yield of which 

 amounted to 131,760 pounds, worth $4,206. 



The following series of eight tables shows, by counties and species, 

 the quantity and value of products taken with each form of apparatus 

 in the vessel and shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1898: 



Table shovAng, by counties, the yield of the seine fisheries of Connecticut in 1898. 



Species. 



Fairfield. 



Middlesex. 



Hartford. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Shore fisheries: 

 Alewives 







205, 855 



81,881 



583,645 



84, 685 



Blue-fish 



300 



S30 



Bullheads 



390 



480 



300 



2,535 



150 



1,100 



35,856 



18 



24 



18 



127 



9 



60 



1,517 



1,422 

 380 

 100 



7,464 



57 



Carp 





19 



Eels 









Perch, white 





373 



Perch, yellow 



1 





Pickerel 







1,230 

 57,624 



65 



Shad 







2,479 



Smelt •- 



5,500 

 3,600 

 1,100 



825 

 182 

 132 





Squeteague 









Striped bass 



80 

 17,150 



10 



688 



180 

 16,503 



24 



Sue cers 



657 



Tomcod or frost-fish 



a0,750 



430 













Total 



21,250 



1,599 



263, 896 



4,352 



668,548 



8,306 



Species. 



New H 



aven. 



New Lc 



ndon. 



Totj 



il. 



Lbs. 



"talue. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Lbs. 



Value. 



Vessel fisheries: 

 Mackerel, salted 







28,000 



4, 674, 600 



800 



82,000 



12,856 



24 



28,000 



6,428,010 



800 



82,000 



Mehhaden 



Scup 



1,753,410 



84,091 



16, 947 

 24 











Total 



1,753,410 



4,091 



4,703,400 



14,880 



6, 456, 810 



18, 971 







Shore fisheries: 

 Alewives 



12,000 



155 



8,800 



170 



810, 300 



300 



2,812 



860 



400 



10,999 



150 



3, 1.30 



94,120 



5, .500 



3,600 



1,360 



36, 053 



10, 750 



0,891 

 30 



Blue-fish 



Bullheads 







1,000 



30 



105 



Carp 







43 



Eels 











25 



Perch, white 



Perch , yellow 









. 1,000 



40 



540 

 9 



Pickerel 



Shad 



frio' 



68* 



800 



32 



157 

 4,064 



Smelt 







825 



Squeteague 



1 





182 



Striped bass 



i _ 





166 



Sue cers *. 







2,400 



72 



1,417 



Tomcod or frost-fish 







430 















Total 



12,640 



223 



14,000 



344 



980, 334 



14,884 



Total vessel and shore 



1,766,050 



4,314 



4, 717, 400 



15,224 



7,437,144 



33,8.55 



