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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The shore fishery, as shown in Table 33, yields the largest quantities of fish and the 
greatest money returns. Of the 37,807,368 pounds, valued at $673,864, taken in the 
vessel fisheries of the State, 14,318,899 pounds, valued at $228,386, were obtained in 
the shore fishery, cod, hake, pollock, and haddock being the principal species. The 
cod vessels frequenting banks east of 65° west longitude brought in 6,275,907 pounds, 
valued at $190,423. After these, in the order of their importance, are the market, 
mackerel, herring, swordfish, menhaden, halibut, lobster, and molluscan fisheries. 
33. — Table showing by fisheries and species the yield of the vessel fisheries of Maine in 1889. 
Fisheries and species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Banks east of 65° W. longitude : 
Cod, salted 
6, 275, 907 
$190, 423 
Halibut : 
202, 338 
15, 992 
Shore : 
Alewives, fresh 
28,000 
195 
Alewives, salted 
14,000 
161 
Cod, fresh 
1.979, 954 
38, 761 
Cod. salted 
3, 593, 361 
83, 120 
Cunners, fresh 
60, 000 
1,200 
Cusk, fresh 
86, 500 
760 
Cusk, salted 
129, 970 
1,315 
Eels, fresh 
7, 250 
610 
Haddock, fresh 
1, 092, 950 
19, 500 
1 Haddock, salted 
737, 534 
8, 531 
Hake, fresh 
699. 752 
6, 023 
Hake, salted 
3, 791, 924 
40, 668 
Halibut, fresh 
113, 415 
7,221 
Halibut, salted 
36 
Pollock, fresh 
1. 380, 513 
12, 906 
Pollock, salted 
575, 176 
5, 804 
Shad, fresh 
18, 000 
675 
Smelt, fresh 
10, 000 
900 
Total 
228, 386 
Mackerel : 
Mackerel, fresh 
181, 251 
14, 472 
Mackerel, salted 
562, 100 
51, 904 
Total 
743, 351 
66, 376 
Fisheries and species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Market: 
Cod, fresh 
1, 710, 616 
$33, 539 
Cod, salted 
1, 995 
Haddock, fresh 
1, 289, 000 
22, 282 
Halibut, fresh 
23, 700 
1, 678 
Red snapper, fresh 
285, 000 
7, 100 
Total 
3, 400, 604 
66, 594 
Menhaden : 
Menhaden, fresh 
S, 498, 860 
18, 805 
Herring : 
Herring, fresh 
618,900 
4,680 1 
Herring, salted 
2, 497, 200 
34,827 
Total 
39, 507 
Swordfish : 
Swordfish, fresh 
634, 435 
26, 817 
Molluscan : 
Scallops, fresh 
32, 614 
1, 950 
Clams, fresh 
35, 020 
1,582 
Total 
67, 634 
3, 532 
Crustacean : 
Lobsters, fresh 
549, 240 
17,432 
Grand total 
If7,l07, 368 
673, 864 
THE SHORE FISHERIES. 
Under this head are included all those fisheries prosecuted from boats or from the 
shore without the aid or use of vessels, although, as in the case of the lobster fishery, 
vessels may be employed to take the catch of the shore fishermen to market, in which 
case they are recorded as transporters. 
The shore fisheries of Maine are of much greater consequence than those of any 
other New Eu gland State, and are more than double the importance of the vessel 
fisheries of the State, so far as the value of the products is concerned. 
In the tables the extent of the industry is shown by counties and by apparatus, 
and some of the more important fisheries are discussed at length. In the first three 
tables the condensed figures for the shore fisheries are given for each county. The 
first tabular statement shows that of the total number of fishermen, viz, 6,205, Han- 
cock County had 1,730, the greatest number, followed by Cumberland County with 
1,105 and Washington County with 1,076. The other counties ranged from 744 in Lin- 
coln to 43 in Penobscot. 
