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445,000 pounds, $2,459; mackerel, 315,250 pounds, 116,618, and squid, 

 5,365,076 pounds, $25,340. The remaining species, aggregating 1,170,- 

 799 pounds, valued at |34,543, were bonito, butter-fish, flounders, ale- 

 wives, blue-fish, cod, cunners, eels, hake, hickor}^ shad, sea bass, 

 striped bass, sturgeon, tautog, tomcod, shad, and horse mackerel. 



The catch with dredges, tongs, rakes, etc., comprised 03^sters, 103,- 

 386 bushels, $133,682; hard clams, 106,518 bushels, |130,839; soft 

 clams, 227,941 bushels, $157,247; scallops, 65,925 bushels, $89,832, 

 and cockles, 2,000 bushels, $5,600. 



The oysters were taken chiefly with tongs, the clams with rakes, 

 hoes, etc., the scallops with dredges, and the cockles were mostl}'^ 

 picked up b}" hand. At WelMeet rakes which have been recentW intro- 

 duced are used quite extensively in taking hard clams. These rakes 

 have an iron frame 26 inches long and 8 inches wide, and from 18 to 

 21 teeth 4^ inches long. A bag of wire netting 3 feet long is attached 

 to the frame to catch the clams as they are raked from the bottom. 

 The handle is a strong ash or oak pole from 20 to 40 feet long, accord- 

 ing to the depth of water in which the rake is to be used, and weighs 

 from 8 to 12 pounds. The cost of the aj^paratus is $7. 



Lobster pots, which are the only apparatus emploj^ed in the lobster 

 fishery, took 1,695,688 pounds of lobsters, the value of which was 

 $175,095; dip nets secured 1,428,000 pounds of alewives, $17,001, and 

 680,000 pounds of herring, $5,100; fyke nets, 16,725 pounds of eels, 

 $1,014, and 6,000 pounds of flounders, $180; eel weirs, 49,687 pounds 

 of eels, $1,950; cunner nets and pots, eel pots, and spears, 23,500 

 pounds of cunners, $1,410; eels, 326,332 pounds, $15,866, and floun- 

 ders, 4,300 pounds, $150; beam trawls, used in Barnstable County but 

 not elsewhere in the United States in the commercial fisheries, 1,419,809 

 pounds of flounders, $43,169, and minor forms of apparatus, 135,410 

 pounds of several different species, valued at $6,662. The catch of 

 sword-fish with harpoons in the vessel and shore fisheries was 760,126 

 pounds, worth $57,746. The products taken with harpoons, bomb 

 guns, lances, etc., in the whale fisheries, including the catch b}^ vessels 

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

 sisted of 684,902 gallons of whale and sperm oil, $292,875, and 19,000 

 pounds of whalebone, $90,000. 



The following tables show by counties and species the quantity and 

 value of products taken with the various forms of fishing apparatus in 

 tha vessel and shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1902. 



