FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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The catch of mackerel, bank cod, and bank halibnt is classified by fishing-grounds 
in the following table. The yield of mackerel by each kind of apparatus is also specified. 
The figures are interesting as showing the importance of some of the principal grounds 
resorted to by American fishing vessels. 
73. — Table showing by fishing-grounds the catch of the mackerel {by apparatus), the bank cod, the Grand, and 
Western bank fresh halibut, and the Iceland halibut fleets of Massachusetts in 1889. 
Species. 
New England shore. 
Nova Scotia shore. 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
Pounds. 
I Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
j Pounds. 
Value. 
Mackerel, caught with seines, fresh 
Mackerel, caught with seines, salted 
Mackerel, caught with nets, fresh i 
Mackerel, caught with nets, salted 
Mackerel, caught with lines, fresh 
Mackerel, caught with lines, salted 
Cod, salted , 
856, 816 
2, 206, 400 
47, 960 
178, 200 
87, 375 
752,700 
$77, 640 
1 197, 240 
4, 979 
8, 200 
$603 
992, 600 
$94, 290 
i 14, 176 
7, 745 
63, 782 
10, 000 
239, 500 
1, 062 
9, 608 
Total j 
4,129,451 
365, 562 
8,200 
603 
1, 242, 100 
104, 960 
Pounds. Value. Pounds. I Value. | Pounds. | Value. 
Mackerel, caught with seines, 
fresh 
Mackerel, caught with seines, 
salted 
Mackerel, caught with nets, fresh 
Mackerel, caught with nets, 
salted 
Mackerel, caught with lines, fresh 
Mackerel, caught witli 1 i n c " 
salted. 
Cod, salted 
Halibut, fresh 
Halibut, salted 
Total . 
35, 734, 380 
7, 166, 861 
176, 571 
1,459,976 17,749,143 
856, 816 
. 3,207,200 
47,960 
.1 178,200 
.! 87,375 
762, 700 
52, 912, 915 
7, 976. 969 
$37, 092 923, 454 
THE SHORE FISHERIES. 
The shore fisheries of Massachusetts yield a smaller percentage of the value of 
its total fishery products than in any other New England State; nevertheless, the 
State is second only to Maine in this respect, surpassing in importance the combined 
value of the shore fisheries of the three remaining coast States. The special features 
which give prominence in this branch are the pound net, lobster, and molluscan 
The extent to which the citizens of each of the eight coastal counties of Massa- 
chusetts engaged in the shore and boat fisheries in 1889 is set forth in the following- 
series of tables, the first of which relates to persons engaged, the second to the boats 
and apparatus used, and the third to the quantity and value of products taken. 
From the first table it is seen that Barnstable County occupies a very prominent 
position in the shore fisheries, foiyof the 3,748 shore fishermen in the State, no less 
than 1,840 are credited to that county. Plymouth, the county with the least important 
vessel fisheries, ranks second in number of shore fishermen, having 575, while Essex 
County, with 5,751 vessel fishermen, ranks third, with only 454 shore fishermen. 
