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fishermen received $109,084. Cumberland County comes after Washington County, 
showing a catch of 12,996,601 pounds, worth $230,770; in this county clams take 
precedence in quantity and value, 3,518,069 pounds being the output in 1889, worth to 
the fishermen $84,296. In Knox County, with its quota of 10,411,260 pounds, valued 
at $154,429, lobsters are by far the most important product, the yield of that species 
being 3,779,800 pounds, with a value of $105,108. The only remaining county with an 
output worth over $100,000 is Lincoln, in which 8,875,934 pounds of fishery products 
were secured, which yielded $132,286; in this county the lobster is also the most im- 
portant single product, 1,693,250 pounds, valued at $52,138, being taken. The other 
counties, in the order of their rank, are York with products worth $84,161; Sagadahoc 
with $69,393; Waldo with $41,800 and Penobscot with the small sum of $2,708. 
34. — Table showing by co unties the number of persons engaged in the shore fisheries of Maine in 1889. 
Counties. 
No. 
Washington 
1, 076 
Hancock 
1,730 
Penobscot 
43 
Waldo 
207 
Knox 
491 
Lincoln : 
744 
Sagadahoc 
536 
Cumberland 
1, 105 
York 
273 
Total 
6,205 
35. — Table showing by counties the apparatus employed in the shore fisheries of Maine in 1889. 
Designation. 
Washington. 
Hancock. 
Penobscot. 
Waldo. 
Knox. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 1 Value. 
No. 
Value. 
Ko. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
Boats 
Weirs 
Pound nets 
Trap nets 
Bag nets 
Gill nets 
Fyke nets 
Seines 
Lines 
Pots 
Spears 
Scallop dredges 
Clamming apparatus 
Miscellaneous nets 
Total - - - . 
930 
173 
$59, 106 
29, 947 
1,371 
43 
3 
126 
67 
318 
$62, 962 
11,130 
1, 000 
10, 505 
3, 630 
3, 235 
24 
$248 
236 
$4, 053 
120 
616 
$20, 782 
98 
172 
375 
2, 570 
1,684 
25 
19 
115 
152 
114 
53 
8, 135 
2, 550 
6 
210 
220 
125 
1, 890 
48 
3, 025 
21, 7ii 
731 
19, 288 
2, 070 
41, 753 
127 
1, 070 
494 
30 
11 
1,484 
1,623 
16, 566 
44, 147 
122 
82 
15 
11 
1,856 
19, 215 
64 
103 
177 
29 
50 
22 
8 
113, 987 
141,031 
1,658 
16, 382 
50, 113 
Designation. 
Lincoln. 
Sagadahoc. 
Cumberland. 
York. 
Total. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
Trouts 
464 
13 
1 
$22. 382 
238 
300 
361 
$9, 048 
1, 232 
13 
20 
$40, 348 
1,820 
6, 495 
756 
$18, 540 
5,990 
273 
33 
341 
280 
3, 561 
134 
$237, 469 
52, 022 
14, 895 
33, 000 
11, 570 
32, 973 
550 
5, 325 
14. 790 
108, 812 
165 
1,603 
1,584 
337 
Weirs 
Pound nets 
4 
89 
34 
234 
4,200 
13, 650 
1, 570 
2,895 
50 
5 
2, 900 
Ba«- nets 
Gill nets 
Fyke nets 
Seines 
Lines - . 
708 
31 
5, 351 
75 
150 
3,523 
11,937 
25 
468 
63 
711 
101 
6, 071 
425 
2,150 
3, 720 
8, 099 
1, 189 
11,695 
’*2," 565 
459 
2, 051 
8, 470" 
2,653 
7,623 
Pots 
Spears 
Scallop dredges 
Clamming apparatus. . . . 
12, 875 
36 
10, 394 
121, 250 
158 
123 
5 
65 
142 
498 
165 
Miscellaneous nets 
Total 
13 
107 
44, 592 
34, 130 
69, 626 
43, 576 
515, 095 
