FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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103. — Table showing by counties the apparatus employed in the shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 1889. 
104. — Table showing by counties and species the yield of the shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 1889. 
Alewives, fresh 
Ale wives, salted — 
Alewives, smoked . . 
Bluefisb, fresh 
Butter-fish, fresh... 
Cod, fresh 
Cod, salted 
Eels, fresh 
Flounders, fresh 
Haddock, fresh 
Kingfish, fresh 
Mackerel, fresh 
Mackerel, salted 
Perch, fresh 
Pollock, salted 
Seahass, fresh 
Soup, fresh 
Shad, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
Squeteague, fresh. . 
Striped bass, fresh . 
Taulog, fresh 
MisceUaneous, fresh 
.Refuse fish, fresh . . . 
Lobsters 
Crabs 
Clams (soft) 
Quahogs 
Scallops 
Oysters - 
Total 
Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value. ’Pounds. Value. 
79, 450 
412, 000 
130, 300 
38, 950 
192, 500 
174, 500 
210, 000 
5, 000 
9 700 
: -1,500 $90 
,015 i 1,500 ! 150 
233 i 19,050 494 
Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value.! Pounds. Value 
8,132 ! 32,750 I 1,638 
4,873 67,500 1,585 
16, 000 
14, 100 
622, 600 
11, 850 
81, 000 
134, 000 
55, 240 
116, 500 
10, 500 
676, 200 
81, 500 
4,460 
37, 750 
9, 610 
789 
3, 900 
5,700 
5, 102 
4, 340 
210 
845 
4, 200 
1, 125 
3, 010 
-u, uiru , 
7 251) 
11,200 
16, 000 
245, 000 
18,650 688 1,000 
6.000 1 180 
1,300 | 125 1,500 
3, 500 ; 295 
30,250 1.120 ! 6,000 
5,000 400 . 5,600 
11,000 520 I 6,125 
193.000 19,300 1100.000 
192.000 20,900 j 20,000 
20,250 2,250 
44, 100 9, 074 588, 595 
51, 520 
459, 200 
5,435,000 
90 
10,000 ih 
388, 073 
3,116,200 175,951 1651,300 59,343 787,120 128,215 424,673 74,076 8,605,559 199,249 13,584,852 536,834 
73, 111 
230, 964 
13, 500 
51, 000 
1,840 
12, 605 
82, 125 
9,469 
1,247 
2, 430 
366, 000 16, 770 
499. 450 
412, 000 
134, 800 
401, 375 
267, 050 
85, 000 
11, 200 
249. 450 
529, 750 
5,000 
9,700 
270, 000 
120, 000 
16, 000 
51, 520 
493, 150 
i, 063, 800 
16, 650 
84, 500 
406, 214 
80, 340 
187, 625 
46, 250 
, 106, 200 
447, 500 
4,460 
330, 750 
212, 000 
20, 250 
022, 868 
26, 648 
9, 827 
2, 490 
500 
11, 87S 
12, 425 
125 
291 
91, 921 
1, 149 
4, 195 
16, 844 
7, 291 
7,700 
925 
1,770 
20, 970 
1, 125 
32, 310 
23, 025 
2. 250 
195, 234 
The relative importance of each of the various means of capture is illustrated in 
the next table, the specification being by counties and species. Of the apparatus 
employed in the capture of fish proper, pound nets and trap nets are by far the most 
effective devices, yielding 9,683,879 pounds, chiefly scup, alewives, and squeteague, 
worth $171,771. Lines took 759,720 pounds in 1889, principally mackerel, for which 
the fishermen got $46,758. Pots were the next most important apparatus if lobsters 
are included, taking 562,250 pounds, valued at $26,810. Grill nets stocked $18,841, 
seines $15,665, and fyke nets $3,045. Such miscellaneous apparatus as dredges, tongs, 
rakes, etc., produced 1,590,328 pounds of crabs, clams, oysters, scallops, etc,, worth 
$253,944. 
F. C. B. 1890—11 
