FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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THE SHORE FISHERIES. 
The shore fisheries of New Hampshire yield about one-half as much products as 
the vessel fisheries and rather more than half the value of the latter. The 194 shore 
fishermen have $4,170 invested in boats and $5,626 in apparatus, as shown in the second 
table for the State, and in 1889 took the following products : 
57. — Table showing by species the yield of the shore fisheries of New Hampshire in 1889. 
Species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Alewives, fresh 
140, 400 
$3, 080 
Sea bass, fresh 
500 
$40 
Cod, fresh 
435, 400 
7, 240 
Shad, fresh 
88 
3 
Eels, fresh 
12, 000 
1,200 
Smelt, fresh 
46, 000 
3,600 
Haddock, fresh 
644, 000 
10,250 
Miscellaneous fish, fresh 
10, 000 
300 
Herring, fresh 
19, 800 
195 
Lobsters, fresh 
123, 000 
5, 770 
Mackerel, fresh 
2, 160 
240 
Clams (soft), fresh 
3, 000 
150 
Menhaden , fresh 
37, 000 
225 
Perch or cunners, fresh 
4, 000 
200 
Total 
1, 477, 348 
32, 493 
The foregoing table shows that the average value of the products taken by the 
shore fishermen of New Hampshire is $167 per man, $774 per each $100 invested in 
boats, and $580 per each $100 invested in apparatus. It is also seen that 32 per cent of 
the income of the shore fishermen is obtained from the sale of haddock, 22 per cent 
from cod, 17 per cent from lobsters, 11 per cent from smelt, 9 per cent fr om alewives, 
4 per cent from eels, and 1 per cent each from mackerel, menhaden, herring, perch, 
and minor species. 
The importance of the various fishing devices employed in the shore fisheries of the 
State is exhibited in the following table, in which the quantity and value of each 
species taken in each form of apparatus are given. 
58. — Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of the shore fisheries of New Hampshire in 1889. 
Apparatus and species. 
Weirs : 
Ale-wives, fresh. 
Perch, fresh 
Sea bass, fresh . . 
Shad, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
Total . 
Gill nets : 
Herring, fresh . . . 
Mackerel, fresh . . 
Menhaden, fresh . 
Pounds. 
Value. 
133, 200 
$2, 960 
4, 000 
200 
500 
40 
88 
3 
1, 000 
100 
138, 788 
3,303 1 
7, 200 
120 
19. 800 
195 
2, 160 
240 
37,000 
225 
58, 960 
660 
Apparatus and species. 
’ounds. Value. 
Trawl lines and hand lines : 
Cod, fresh 
Haddock, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
Miscellaneous, fresh . . . 
Total 
Spears : 
Eels, fresh 
Miscellaneous : 
Lobsters 
Clams (soft) 
Total 
Grand total 
435, 400 
644, 000 
45, 000 
10, 000 
12, 000 
123, 000 
3, 000 
126, 000 
1, 477, 348 
$7, 240 
10, 250 
3, 500 
300 
5. 920 
32, 493 
Examination of the table shows that lines are to be credited with 65 per cent of 
the stock, weirs with 10 per cent, spears with 4 per cent, gill nets with 2 per cent, 
seines with 1 per cent, and pots and other minor apparatus with 18 per cent. 
