FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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The effectiveness of the different means of capture employed in the shore fisheries 
is exhibited in considerable detail in the following table. Regarding fish proper, it 
is seen that pound nets and trap nets take by far the largest quantities of products 
and yield the greatest money returns. In 1889, 14,633,315 pounds, worth $328,386, 
were thus secured. Of the fish caught in this way, the mackerel is the most valuable, 
although herring and scup are taken in greater abundance. Hand lines and trawl 
lines rank second in the quantity and value of catch; they took 4,433,812 pounds, for 
which $109,245 was received. Cod is the most important species as regards both quan- 
tity and value secured by this means. Gill nets were used for the capture of 3,319,158 
pounds, worth $95,964. Herring are the most abundant and mackerel the most valuable 
fish thus taken. The catch in pots, omitting the lobster, is unimportant, but including 
that crustacean is greater in value than that with lines and considerably larger than 
that with gill nets. 
77. — Table showing by counties and apparatus the yield of the shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1889. 
Apparatus and species. 
Pound nets and trap nets : 
Albac.ore, fresh 
Alewires, fresh 
Alewives, salted 
Bluefish. fresh 
Bonito, fresh 
Butter-fish, fresh 
Cod, fresh 
Gunners, fresh 
Eels, fresh 
Flounders, fresh 
Herring, fresh 
Herring, salted 
Kingfish, fresh 
Mackerel, fresh 
Menhaden, fresh 
Menhaden, salted 
Pollock, fresh 
Pollock, salted 
Salmon, fresh 
Scup, fresh 
Sea bass, fresh 
Shad, fresh 
Spanish mackerel, fresh . 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped hass, fresh 
Sturgeon, fresh 
Tautog, fresh 
Whiting, fresh. 
Miscellaneous fish, fresh. 
Refuse fish, fresh 
Total 
Gill nets : 
Bluefish, fresh 
Bonito, fresh 
Butter-fish, fresh 
Cod, fresh 
Cunners, fresh 
Flounders, fresh 
Herring, fresh 
Herring, salted 
Mackerel, fresh 
Mackerel, salted 
Menhaden, fresh 
Scup fresh 
Shad, fresh 
Spanish mackerel, fresh . 
Smelt, fresh 
Squeteague. fresh 
Striped hass, fresh 
Tautog, fresh 
Essex. 
Suffolk. 
Norfolk. 
Plymouth. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
1 Value. 
Pounds. 1 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Yalue. 
| 
1 200 
$15 
41, 652 
$406 
9! 176 
140 
2, 000 
144 
40 
100 
io 
78 
2 
62, 109 
1 , 498 
6, 825 
179 
40,500 
250 
720 
7 
223 
15 
750 
55 
254 
8 
1,947 
43 
. 1,552,460 
73,000 
11, 273 
730 
40, 000 
108 
816 
45 
98,367 
6. 624 
6, 333 
953 
175, 000 
1,153 
22, 175 
24 
3, 600 
7.000 
61 
15 
4 
1.560 
48 
37 
5 
548 
23 
41 
609 
55 
600 
1,465 
1, 005 
19 
49 
6 
21 
131 
10 
I".’”!.'.’"!! 
5! 336 
55 
30, 000 
30 
2,061,029 
22, 706 
126, 701 
1, 931 
17, 089 
365 
1, 662 
30 

235* 
$28 
3, 515 
157 
6, 000 
120 
5, 590 1 
280 
6, 000 
120 
i 
491,200 
5,158 
2, 487 
50, 000 
$750 
4, 000 
21, 000 
12 
192, 200 
640. 000 
6,400 
1,200 
24 
187 
32, 675 
4, 250 
450 ; 
30 
10, 950 
1,129 
4, 700 
8, 931 
867 
378 
96, 000 
960 
69 

32 
3, 527 
102 
135 
45 
1,700 
102 
1, 781 
92 
64 
13 
445 
37 
824, 075 
13, 095 
690, 000 
7,150 
j 7,475 
362 
79, 069 
4, 047 
Total 
