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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Spanish, mackerel . . 
Squeteague (or sea 
trout). 
Striped bass (or 
rockfish). 
Sturgeon 
Swordfish 
Tautog 
Whiting (or silver 
hake). 
Terrapin 
Scientific names. 
Scomberomorus maculatus. 
Cynoscion regale and C. 
maculatum. 
Roccus lineatus. 
Acipenser oxyrhynchus. 
Xiphias gladius. 
Tautoga onitis. 
Merlucius hilinearis. 
Malaclemmys palustris. 
Common names. 
Crabs 
Lobster 
Shrimp 
Clam (soft or long) . . 
Clam (hard, round, 
or quahog). 
Oyster 
Scallop 
Squid 
Scientific names. 
Callinectes hastatus and 
Cancer irrorata, chiefly. 
Homarus americanus. 
Crangon vulgaris. 
Mya arenaria. 
Venus mercenaria. 
Ostrea virginica. 
Pecten irradians and P. ma- 
gellanicus. 
Loligo pealei. 
The following tabular statements give a summary, by States, of the New England 
fisheries in 1889. 
The first table shows that 36,536 persons were employed in the industry, of whom 
15,122 were engaged in the vessel fisheries, 12,295 in the shore or boat fisheries, and 
9,119 in various capacities on shore. In the number of vessel fishermen Massachusetts 
is much in the lead of all the other States, having 10,851 persons in this class. Maine 
takes first rank in the shore fisheries and shore industries, giving employment to 6,205 
and 5,244 persons, respectively. 
The vessels, boats, apparatus, shore property, and cash capital employed in the 
New England fisheries are next given. The table shows 1,542 vessels, with a tonnage 
of 79,738.49, valued, with their outfit, at #6,382,006. Massachusetts is credited with 
more than half of all the fishing vessels of New England, viz, 836, followed by Maine 
with 408, Connecticut with 214, Rhode Island with 69, and New Hampshire with 15. 
Of the 11,561 boats, valued at #657,010, used in the shore fisheries, Maine has 5,990, 
worth #237,469, and Massachusetts has 3,494, valued at #254,033. The apparatus 
employed in the actual taking of fish and other products was valued at #1,683,525, 
of which #692,638 represented trawl and hand lines, #442,960 weirs, pound nets, and 
trap nets, #190,276 pots, #183,220 seines, #104,309 gill nets, and #68,122 minor forms, 
including bag nets, fyke nets, harpoons, spears, dredges, tongs, rakes, etc. Of the total 
investment in apparatus of capture, Massachusetts has #1,009,621, Maine #423,564, 
Rhode Island #119,417, Connecticut #106,682, and New Hampshire #22,291. The cap- 
ital invested in shore property of various kinds, as wharves, buildings, flake yards, etc., 
amounted to #5,850,979, of which more than half is to be credited to Massachusetts. 
The amount of ready money required to properly conduct the fisheries, and known as 
cash capital or working capital, was #5,523,224, Massachusetts employing #4,284,200. 
The total investment in vessels, boats, apparatus, shore property, and cash capital 
amounted to #20,094,794, of which Massachusetts had #13,245,229, Maine #2,889,893, 
Connecticut #2,826,834, Rhode Island #1,020,178, and New Hampshire #112,660. 
The third table shows the quantity and value of each species of fish and other 
marine products taken in each State. It is seen that, considering the New England 
States together, the cod is by far the most important species, being valued at #2,539,757, 
after which come oysters at #1,399,784, lobsters at #833,736, whale products at #828,463, 
haddock at #738,732, mackerel at #731,424, halibut at #725,756, and menhaden at 
#428,228. Regarding the quantities of products, menhaden rank first, with 173,632,210 
pounds, followed by seaweed, with 149,553,900 pounds; cod, with 97,145,645 pounds; 
haddock, with 43,473,627 pounds; herring, with 36,316,259 pounds, and lobsters, with 
