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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
29. — Table showing Inj customs districts the average tonnage, value, crew, and stock of vessels employed in 
the fisheries of Maine in 1889. 
Customs districts. 
Average tonnage. 
Average 
value. 
Average value of 
outfit and appa- 
ratus. 
Average number 
of crew. 
Average gross 
stock. 
Fishing. 
Trans- 
porting. 
Fishing. 
Trans- 
porting. 
Fishing. 
Trans- 
porting. 
Fishing. 
Trans- 
porting. 
Fishing. 
Trans- 
porting * 
Passamaquoddy . . . 
35.42 
32.50 

$975 
$1, 572 
$713 
$240 
9 
3 
$765 
$2, 960 
Maeliias 
13. 34 
28. 55 
409 
2, 050 
414 
275 
4 
3 
772 
2,125 
Frenchmans Bay . . 
45.01 
53. 77 
1, 884 
1,220 
1,443 
205 
9 
4 
2, 275 | 
3,720 
Castine 
30.23 
11.84 
1, 058 
1. 146 
944 
200 
6 
2 
1,631 
3, 033 
Belfast 
36. 81 
29. 62 
1,516 
817 
1, 540 
133 
9 
3 
1,482 
1,783 
W aldoboro 
18, 89 
21. 90 
734 
857 
466 
189 
5 
2 
1, 157 
3, 682 
Wiscasset 
40. 34 
1, 258 
2, 117 
Bath 
18. 76 
644 
Portland 
47! 77 
19. 67 
2, 572 
882' 
1. 383 
229 
10 
2 
. 3’, 205 
5, 176 
8. 12 
550 
420 
4 
1, 177 
Kennebunk 
18. 40 
846 
1,761 
York 
7. 91 
250 
288 
3 
366 

. .. 
* The value of products transported. 
The relative importance of the different kinds of apparatus employed in the vessel 
fisheries in the capture of fish is shown in Table 30. It appears that by means of hand 
lines and trawl lines 24,126,298 pounds of fish, valued at $503,267, were taken, these 
figures representing about 65 per cent of the total catch and 77 per cent of the aggre- 
gate value. Salt cod is by far the most important item in the line fishery, the value 
of this species in this condition being more than that of all the other line fish com- 
bined. Seines rank next to lines in both quantity and value of fish. Of the 9,030,960 
pounds taken by this means, 8,498,860 pounds were menhaden; but of the total value 
of seine-caught fish, viz, $67,777, mackerel represented $48,297. After seines come 
gill nets with 3,391,551 pounds, worth $54,429, of which the herring amounted to 
3,116,100 pounds, valued at $39,507. Harpoons and pots complete the list of appa- 
ratus in the vessel fisheries; the catch by these forms is restricted to swordfish and 
eels, and is necessarily insignificant in comparison with the other kinds of apparatus, 
although the 634,435 pounds of swordfish, valued at $26,817, represent an important 
fishery. 
30.— Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of the vessel fisheries of Maine in 1889, exclusive of 
the molluscan and crustacean fisheries. 
Apparatus and species. 
Pounds, j 
Value, j 
Apparatus and species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
33,500 
480, 600 
$3,135 
45,162 
Bines : 
Cod, fresh 
3, 690, 570 
$72, 300 
275, 538 
Mackerel, salted 
Cod, salted 
Cusk, fresh 
9, 961, 556 
86, 500 
Menhaden, fresh 
Sliad, fresh 
8, 498, 860 
18, 000 
18,805 
760 
675 
Cusk, salted 
129, 970 
2, 381, 950 
737, 534 
699, 752 
3, 791, 924 
339, 453 
1, 315 
41, 782 
8,531 
4o! 668 
24, 891 
Haddock, fresh 
Haddock, salted 
Hake fresh 
Total 
9, 030, 960 
67,777 
Gill nets : 
Alewives, fresh .... 
28, 000 
195 
Hake, salted 
Halibut, fresh 
Alewives, salted 
Cunners or perch, fresh . . 
Herring, fresh 
14, 000 
60, 000 
618, 900 
161 
Halibut, salted 
600 
1, 200 
Mackerel, fresh 
Mackerel, salted 
15, 300 
50,500 
1, 380, 513 
575, 176 
1, 373 
4,240 
12, 906 
5,804 
Herring, salted 
Mackerel, fresh 
2, 497, 200 
132, 451 
34,’ 827 
9. 964 
Pollock, fresh 
Pollock, salted 
Mackerel, salted 
Smelt, freshi 
31, 000 
10, 000 
2, 502 
900 
Red snapper, fresh 
285. 000 
7, 100 
Total 
24, 126, 298 
503, 267 
Total 
Pots : 
3. 391, 551 
54, 429 
Grand total 
37, 190, 494 
652, 900 
Eels, fresh 
7, 250 
610 
Harpoons : 
Swordfish, fresh 
634, 435 
| 26, 817 
