FISHERIES? OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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The following table graphically exhibits the relative importance of the various 
means of capture employed in the shore fisheries of Massachusetts. The table shows 
the wide differences which exist between the percentages of quantity and value of 
products obtained in the different forms of apparatus. 
78. — Table showing the relative quantity and value of yield in each principal form of apparatus of capture 
employed in the shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1889. 
Apparatus. 
Percentage. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Seines 
.64 
2.19 
9.68 
.03 
1.47 
2.93 
2. 37 
.26 
80.43 
1 . 55 
8.89 
30.40 
.13 
4.34 
10. 12 
14. 83 
.99 
28. 75 
Gill nets 
Pound nets and trap nets 
Fyke nets 
Snap nets and dip nets 
Hand and trawl lines - 
Pots 
Harpoons and spears - -• 
Miscellaneous 
Total 
100. 00 
100. 00 
The various counties fare very differently in the item of receipts from the sale of 
fishery products. This fact is brought out in the following table. In Essex County, 
for instance, the fishermen take $1,256 worth of products for each $100 invested in 
boats; in Suffolk County they stock $1,117 on the same basis, while in Plymouth County 
only $215 is the average. The variation in the item of investment in apparatus is 
quite as marked. Suffolk County leads with products valued at $1,214 for each $100 
expended for apparatus ; Barnstable County ranks last, with only $226. The average 
stock per man is greatest in Dukes and Suffolk counties ($528 and $524, respectively) 
and least in Norfolk County ($101). 
The relative effectiveness of each kind of apparatus in each county is shown. 
Pound nets and trap nets yield a larger percentage of returns than any other devices 
in Barnstable, Dukes, and Bristol counties; pots lead in Suffolk County; and such 
miscellaneous forms as rakes, hoes, dredges, etc., are the most important in Essex, 
Norfolk, Plymouth, and Nantucket counties. Seines take an insignificant part in the 
fisheries of all the counties, but are most important in Dukes County, where they are 
credited with 3 per cent of the entire value of the shore products. Gill nets are most 
effective in Bristol County, where they yield 21 per cent of the returns, but in no 
other county do they represent as much as 9 per cent of the income of the fishermen. 
In Suffolk County snap nets, dip nets, and other minor nets took 18 per cent of the 
value of the output. Lines in Nantucket, Plymouth, and Essex counties yielded, 
respectively, 36, 18, and 16 per cent of the returns. 
79. — Table showing by counties certain averages and percentages of the shore fisheries of Massachusetts in 1889. 
Counties. 
Value of 
catch per 
each $100 
in boats. 
Value 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 
and 
trap 
nets. 
Seines. 
Gill 
nets. 
Fyke 
nets. 
Snap 
nets, 
dip 
nets, 
etc. 
Lines. 
Pots. 
l_ 
Har- 
poons 
and 
spears. 
Mis- 
cella- 
neous. 
Essex 
Suffolk 
Norfolk 
Plymouth . . 
Barnstable . 
Nantucket . 
Bukes 
Bristol 
$1, 256 
1. 117 
244 
215 
365 
910 
497 
418 
$466 
1, 214 
378 
426 
226 
433 
460 
$385 
524 
101 
225 
224 I 
337 
528 
357 | 
100.00 
100.00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
100. 00 
13. 00 
1.49 
43.59 
69. 88 
26.83 
1. 12 
1.48 
2. 00 
.91 
3. 26 
7. 50 
8. 54 
4.79 
3. 13 
8. 52 
7. 57 
8. 02 
21.20 
.01 
”.'67’ 
\6L' 
2. 39 
18. 32 
”’3.' 98' 
5.39 
15. 90 
"".'20" 
18.04 
8.81 
36. 35 
1.74 
19. 16 
43.08 
35.69 
4.41 
11. 85 
8. 34 
10. 65 
1 
16 
10 
40. 92 
30. 06 
95. 01 
35. 91 
26. 05 
43. 32 
8.76 
26.57 
