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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1908. 



nets, and weirs. From this it will be seen that the 

 leading kinds of apparatus in one class of fisheries 

 were of minor importance in the other. 



KIND OF APPARATUS. 



Total 



Lines 



Seines 



Dredges, tongs, etc 



Gill nets 



Whaling apparatus 



Crab, eel, and lobster pots and traps 

 Pound nets, trap nets, and weirs. . . 



Harpoons, spears, etc 



All other 



value or products: 1908. 



Total. 



$7,0 



3,930,000 

 806, 000 

 741, 000 

 393, 000 

 336,000 

 325, 000 

 266, 000 

 130,000 

 169,000 



Vessel 

 fisheries. 



$5,497,000 



3,649,000 



754,000 



155,000 



384,000 



336,000 



15, 000 



30, 000 



122,000 



53, 000 



Shore and 



boat 

 fisheries. 



$1,598,000 



281,000 



51,000 



586,000 



9,000 



310, 000 



236,000 



7,800 



116,000 



The following tabular statement gives the value of 

 the catch made with each form of apparatus of capture, 

 by county districts : 



The value of the line catch formed 55 per cent of 

 the value of the total catch for the state and was the 

 largest shown for any state, representing 42 per cent of 

 the value of the total line catch of the United States. 

 Although 30 species were taken with lines, 48 per cent 

 of the value of the product taken in this way was con- 

 tributed by cod. Nearly all of the cod, haddock, hake, 

 and halibut and all of the cusk reported were taken by 

 lines. The following tabular statement gives the value 

 of the line catch, by principal species and by county 

 districts : 



The catch with seines represented only 1 1 per cent 

 of the total value of products for the state, but 

 ranked second to that with lines. The number of species 

 captured by seines was 31, of which mackerel contrib- 



uted 74 per cent of the total value of the catch by this 

 form of apparatus. Essex County reported 67 per cent 

 of the total value of the seine catch. The value oi 

 the seine product caught by vessel fisheries formed 

 94 per cent of the total value of product taken by 

 this form of apparatus. The following tabular state- 

 ment gives the value of the principal species captured 

 by seines, for each county district: 



Dredges, tongs, etc., ranked third in the value of 

 the product taken. The following tabular statement 

 gives the value of the catch, by species and by county 

 districts: 



Of the value of the product taken in this manner, 79 

 per cent was reported by the shore and boat fisheries. 

 The amount returned by the vessel fisheries was 

 entirely from the district designated "All other 

 counties." 



Gill nets took products valued at 6 per cent of the 

 total, 87 per cent of the value representing that of 

 herring and mackerel. The gill-net catch was reported 

 principally by the vessel fisheries, and 70 per cent of 

 the value was contributed by the Essex County dis- 

 trict. The following tabular statement gives the 

 value of the gill-net catch, by principal species and by 

 county districts: 



