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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The relative value of each fishery product is shown in great detail in the next table, 
the specification being by counties. The figures represent the percentage of value of 
each product to the total value of the catch in each county. 
80 . — Table showing by counties the percentage of value of each species to the total yield of the shore fisheries of 
Massachusetts in 1889. 
Albacore, fresh 
Alewives, fresh - 
Alewives, salted 
Bluefish, fresh - 
Bonito, fresh 
Bonito, salted - 
Butter-fish, fresh 
Cod, fresh 
Cod, salted - 
Cunners, fresh 
Eels, fresh - 
Flounders, fresh 
Frostfish or tomcod, fresh. . - 
Haddock, fresh 
Hake, fresh 
Halibut, fresh 
Herring, fresh - 
Herring, salted 
Hickory shad, fresh 
Kingfisli, fresh 
Mackerel, fresh 
Mackerel, salted 
Menhaden, fresh 
Menhaden, salted 
Pollock, fresh 
Pollock, salted 
Salmon, fresh 
Scup, fresh 
Sea bass, fresh 
Shad, fresh 
Shad, salted 
Spanish mackerel, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped bass, fresh 
Sturgeon, fresh 
Swordfish, fresh 
Tautog, fresh 
Whiting, fresh 
Miscellaneous fish, fresh 
Refuse fish, fresh 
Squid, fresh 
Shrimp, fresh 
Lobsters, fresh 
Clams (soft), fresh 
Clams (soft), salted 
Quahogs, fresh 
Scallops, fresh 
Oysters 
Algae 
Total 
Suffolk. Norfolk. Plymouth. Barnstable. Nantucket. Dukes. Bristol. 
2. 63 
2.52 
5. 95 
2. 40 
3. 18 
.32 
3.15 
.01 
19.18 
4.89 
The following tables show three different phases of the bait fishery prosecuted 
from the shores of Massachusetts. In the first table the extent and value of this fish- 
ery is shown by counties and apparatus ; in the second table an exhibit is made by 
counties and species; and the third is a presentation by apparatus and species. 
A consideration of these tables demonstrates that Barnstable County is the most 
important from the standpoint of production of bait, while Essex County comes next. 
In both of these counties, as well as in Bristol County, pound nets and trap nets are 
the important factors in obtaining bait; indeed, the third table shows that of the 
8,592,464 pounds of fish and squid obtained in the shore fisheries of Massachusetts and 
sold for bait, 6,980,684 pounds were the product of the pound-net fishery ; while gill 
nets, the next most productive form, took only 406,000 pounds. 
