606 HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 
This is a marked increase over the number existing in 1877, which has been set down by Pro- 
fessor Goode as thirty. 
No difficulty is usually found in securing good prices for the fish in New York and Philadelphia. 
The markets of Providence and Newport also absorb a very considerable proportion of the products 
of the fishery. 
STATISTICS FOR 1880.—The amount of the catch in 1880, according to the information obtained 
by Messrs. Kumlien, Wilcox, and others, was about 8,300,000 pounds. 
In 1877 the yield of three traps was as follows: 
Pounds, 
17, 225 
15, 675 
112, 750 
29, 825 
10, 600 
23, 625 
209, 100 
Average to the trap.......ceene semen nweeeeceneee 69, 700 
Estimated yield of the 30 traps In use in 1877....| 2,091, 000 
In 1876 the three traps of Messrs. Edward Gladding & Oo. and Mr. H. M. Merritt yielded 
248,400 pounds of fish, or about 82,800 pounds to the trap. 
In 1867 Mr. Benjamin Tallman, of Portsmouth, caught in six traps in nine days $18,000 worth 
of fish. Estimating the value of the fish at $5 per box, which is not too great a sum, the number 
of boxes secured was about 3,600, representing 1,260,000 pounds of fish. The average catch to a 
trap each day was about 23,300 pounds. 
8. THE POUND-NET FISHERIES OF CONNEOTICUT. 
CONNEOTIOUT RIVER SHAD-POUNDS.—The pound-net fishery in Connecticut for the capture of 
shad is carried on chiefly at the mouth of the Connecticut River and to the westward. The nets 
are in every respect similar to those fished on Vineyard Sound, and it is therefore unnecessary for 
me to do more than allude to them. Full information on this topic will be found in the chapter on 
the river fisheries of the Atlantic States. 
9. THE POUND-NET FISHERIES OF NEW YORK. 
LOCATION AND IMPORTANCE OF THE POUND-NET FISHERIES OF Lone IsLanp.—In New 
York the pound fisheries are confined to Long Island, and are not so extensively carried on as 
formerly. The height of the prosperity of the fishery seems to have been reached in 1875. The 
investigations of Mr. Fred. Mather show that there are nets scattered along both shores of Long 
Island at considerable intervals. They are moved quite frequently, to the end that more fish may 
be taken. : 
The nets employed correspond to those in use in Vineyard Sound. Some, however, have no 
“heart,” but merely a funnel leading into the bowl, which may be circular or square. Such nets 
are known in common parlance as “traps.” All the nets have leaders. 
The fish most sought for are shad and striped bass. Some of the traps are employed for the 
capture of the latter species alone. A few Spanish mackerel are taken in many of the nets. 
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