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Table shmviny by counties the product of the fisheries of Rhode Island in 1902 — Cont'd. 



Species. 



Albacore or horse mackerel 



Alewives, fresh 



Alewives, salted 



Blue-flsh 



Bonito 



Butter-fish 



Cod 



Eels 



Flat-fish aud flounders 



Haddock 



Hickory shad 



King-fish 



Mackerel 



Menhaden 



Minnows 



Perch 



Pollock 



Scup 



Sea bass 



Shad 



Smelt 



Spanish mackerel 



Squeteague 



Squid 



Striped bass 



Sword-flsh 



Tautog 



Tomcod 



Whiting 



Miscellaneous fish 



Shrimp 



Lobsters 



Crabs, hard 



Crabs, soft 



Clams 



Quahogs 



Scallops 



Oysters, market 



Oysters, seed 



Total. 



Providence. 



Lbs. 



8,550 



141,000 



Value. 



$216 



7,167 



2, 000 



Washington. 



Lbs. 



139, 100 



166, 800 



7, 925 



2,000 



19, 800 



40, 700 



100, 500 



276, 070 



39, 500 



8,260 



1,700 



103, 120 



20, 000 



Value. 



40, 400 



1,000 



2,000 



112, 800 



55, 440 



8,700 



2, 177, 168 



401,170 



2,911,028 



14,102 



9, 092 



1, 322 



329, 407 



15, 887 



377, 673 



252, 900 



25, 450 



3,300 



10, 600 



794, 090 



9, 200 



21,417 



36, 800 

 1,900 



6,100 



41,750 

 6,400 

 9,386 



12, 000 

 2, 120 

 9, 720 



56, 526 



2, 265, 533 



II, 520 



2,099 



521 



160 



572 



1,239 



5,101 



7,084 



1, 185 



243 



136 



4,348 



200 



2, 395 



6,136 

 1,631 



248 

 942 



19, 487 



200 



1,784 



65 



160 



4,589 

 400 

 1,760 

 1,462 

 382 

 2,180 

 8,126 



77, 733 



Total. 



Lbs. 



1 



464 



166 



146 



125 



362 



690 



451 



1,134 



606 



34 



3 



615 



471 



2, 



40 



30 



6,833 



247, 



30 



10 



3, 158, 



93: 



50: 



126 



278, 



2 



104 



168 



1 



397 



6 



9 



264 



217 



119 



3,615, 



640 



,200 

 ,690 

 ,800 

 ,336 

 ,180 

 ,910 

 ,160 

 ,740 

 ,870 

 ,196 

 ,760 

 ,430 

 ,600 

 ,000 

 ,000 

 ,400 

 ,000 

 ,290 

 ,220 

 ,786 

 ,600 

 410 

 ,115 

 ,860 

 ,087 

 ,900 

 ,160 

 ,400 

 ,500 

 ,100 

 ,200 

 ,305 

 ,400 

 ,386 

 ,900 

 ,240 

 ,652 

 ,353 

 ,850 



21, 613, 964 



Value. 



816 



5,267 



2,099 



9,416 



3,860 



10, 407 



20,652 



22, 290 



27, 839 



14, 265 



700 



364 



32, 950 



1, 156 



120 



2,395 



300 



160, 854 



13,018 



2,465 



942 



64 



75,853 



2, 631 



4,917 



6,743 



9,279 



90 



1,319 



412 



240 



39, 488 



400 



1,760 



32, 514 



36, 456 



25, 208 



561,291 



26, 761 



1,165,701 



THP] PRODUCTS BY APPARATUS. 



The pound net and trap net are the most important forms of appa- 

 ratus in Rhode Island for the capture of fish proper, yielding- three- 

 fourths of the total product in 1902. The number of these nets 

 employed was 198, a decrease of 4 since 1898; but the value increased 

 from $110,395 to $125,790. The catch in 1898 was 14,385,126 pounds, 

 worth $220,791, and in 1902 12,924,261 pounds, for which the fisher- 

 men received $310,219, an increase per pound from 1.54 to 2.40 cents. 



More than half of the pound-net and trap-net catch consists of scup, 

 and nearly half of the remainder is squeteague. Other items of impor- 



