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nets, trap nets, and weirs, and 40 per cent in pots, while only 2 per cent is taken by 
means of gill nets. In Hancock, Knox, and Lincoln counties pots also take by far 
the largest percentage of the catch. In Penobscot County seines and bag nets yield 
54 per cent and gill nets 33 per cent, the relative importance of these forms of appa- 
ratus being much greater in this county than elsewhere in the State. Lines are the 
most important means of capture in York County, and such miscellaneous devices as 
rakes, hoes, dredges, etc., are most important in Cumberland County. 
39. — Table showing by counties certain averages and percentages of the shore fisheries of Maine in 1889. 
Counties. 
Value of 
catch per 
each $100 
invested 
in boats. 
V alue of 
catch per 
each $100 
invested 
in appa- 
ratus. 
Value of 
catch per 
each 
man em- 
ployed. 
Percentage of value of yield 
. in principal forms of apparatus. 
Total. 
Pound 
nets, trap 
nets, and 
weirs. 
Seines 
and bag 
nets. 
Gill 
nets. 
Fyke 
nets. 
Lines. 
Pots. 
Spears. 
Miscel- 
laneous. 
Washington 
$467 
$503 
$256 
100. 00 
40. 76 
4. 38 
2.12 
8.44 
39. 56 
4.74 
Hancock 
680 
549 
248 
100. 00 
11. 96 
5. 11 
1. 34 
16. 45 
47. 44 
"”'.’95' 
16. 75 
Penobscot 
1, 354 
193 
63 
100. 00 
3.80 
54. 21 
32.76 
9. 23 
Waldo . . 
lj 020 
339 
202 
100. 00 
37. 85 
16. 96 
1. 32 
27. 64 
16. 23 
742 
527 
315 
100. 00 
6. 41 
2. 07 
4. 32 
11.55 
68. 06 
7. 59 
Lincoln 
591 
596 
100. 00 
.10 
8. 67 
11. 06 
.17 
28. 56 
39.41 
.58 
11. 45 
Sagadahoc 
771 
276 
129 
100. 00 
33. 45 
1.98 
6. 92 
. 14 
28.14 
12.12 
.20 
17. 05 
Cumberland 
573 
788 
209 
100. 00 
5. 78 
2. 81 
o 22 
.45 
23. 17 
23. 19 
.21 
37. 17 
York 
455 
337 
308 
100. 00 
6.01 
13. 23 
38.04 
23.58 
.42 
18. 72 
The following table shows for each county the percentage of the value of each spe- 
cies to the value of the total yield in the county and illustrates the great differences 
which exist in the various counties in the matter of the importance of fish and other 
products therein taken : 
40. — Table showing by counties the percentage of the value of each species to the total yield of the shore fish- 
eries of Maine in 1889. 
Species. 
W asking- 
ton. 
I Hancock. 
Penob- 
scot. 
Waldo. 
Knox. 
Lincoln. 
Sagadahoc. 
Cumber- 
land. 
York. 
Alewiv^s fresh 
07 
. 12 
1. 15 
1. 00 ' 
5. 05 
2.74 
.75 
1 . 58 
. 11 
.02 
Alewives, smoked 
.20 
1. 35 
1. 01 
2 ] 38 
Bream fresh 
. 39 
Butter-fish, lresh 
.13 
.17 
Catfish fresh 
. 17 
Cod, fresh 
.38 
1 28 
2. 56 
9. 36 
1. 99 
5. 23 
17. 42 
Cod, salted 
2^82 ! 
5.48 
.12 
2. 09 
3. 46 
. 84 
. 34 
06 
Cusk fresh 
. 01 
78 
.50 
.99 
" 26 
Cusk salted 
.04 
. 04 
Eels fresh 
.03 
1. 48 
9. 23 
. 59 
. 20 
21 
. 12 
3. 29 
. 09 
. 18 
.53 
".40 
Erostfish or tomcod, fresh 
. 71 
.05 
16. 62 
1.31 
12 
Haddock, fresh 
.59 
.55 
.08 
3. 28 
.70 
! 88 
7.47 
15. 48 
Haddock, salted 
.89 
1. 51 
1.02 
Hake, fresh 
.08 
.53 
.ii 
1. 66 
4. 03 
4. 06 
2. 00 
Hake, salted 
2. 56 
.78 
3. 42 
Halibut, fresh 
1. 50 
1.07 
.40 
57 
. 66 
Herring, fresh 
7.05 
5. 69 
7. 59 
1.57 
2. 31 
4. 76 
2. 14 
Herring, salted 
1.42 
1. 01 
2. 15 
9. 74 
5. 55 
Herring, smoked 
33. 90 
1.49 
.24 
Mackerel, fresh 
14. 25 
2 28 
7. 79 
1VTrYnbflde.il fresh 
. 22 
q -IK 
2. 50 
Pollock, fresli 
. 14 
.06 
.20 
.38 
2. 63 
2! 77 
’ 10 
Pollock, salted 
.46 
.51 
.02 
.45 
Salmon, fresh 
. 11 
3. 65 
36.56 
35. 07 
.55 
1. 77 
. 22 
.O' 7 
Shad, fresh .... 
.27 
.03 
. 01 
20. 84 
1. 16 
.06 
Smelt, fresh 
2. 22 
5.74 
37. 59 
16. 15 
.33 
5.49 
21. 04 
4. 64 
3.48 
Waste fish, fresh 
. 01 
. 63 
. 63 
Eobsters, fresh 
39. 80 
46. 28 
27. 64 
68. 38 
39. 96 
12. 13 
23.34 
23. 8i 
Clams (soft) , fresh 
. 95 
3. 23 
16. 15 
1. 95 
2. 60 
2. 66 
13. 03 
13.35 
Clams (soft), salted 
9. 67 
.07 
4. 74 
3. 62 
13. 88 
23.74 
2. 63 
Scallops, fresh 
2. 81 
3. 39 
. 44 
Quahogs, fresh 
. 12 
.46 
.47 
.47 
.61 
1. 83 
Total 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
