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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
105. — Table showing by counties and apparatus the yield of the shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 1889. 
Apparatus and 
Washington. 
Kent. 
Providence. 
I Bristol. 
I Newport. 
Total. 
species. 
Pounds. 
Value 
Pounds 
Value. 
Pounds. Value. 
jPouuds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
I Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
$88 
1, 000 
$20 
5,450 
395, 850 
62, 500 
A. aq 
Ale wives, salted . - 
Alewives, smoked 
395, 850 
58, 000 
L250 
4, 500 
$66 
l! 340 
5, 500 
7,550 
Butter-fish, fresh . . 
1,000 
20 
6, 550 
244 
| 264 
39, 400 
2, 009 
39, 400 
4,250 
16, 000 
1, 000 
6, 800 
17, 000 
4, 250 
95 
j 009 
16, 000 
640 
640 
1, 000 
40 
1,500 
135 
460 
Smelt, fresh 
-13, 500 
675 
3,500 
295 
970 
4. 000 
235 
1 
4, 500 
10, 600 
Striped tiass, fresh 
5, 000 
400 
5, 600 
6, 125 
452 
320 
:::::::: 
320 
6, 125 
531, 200 
12,779 
1,275 
33, 525 
1, 611 
1 
582, 525 
15, 665 
Gill nets : 
Bluefish, fresh . . . 
10, 000 
650 
9. 000 
630 
1, 500 
150 
245,150 
$16, 368 
265, 650 
17, 798 
Butter-fish, fresh 
1, 500 
53 
1, 500 
53 
990 
Squeteague, fresh 
24,750 
990 
1 24, 750 
10, 000 
650 
35, 250 
1,673 
1, 500 
150 
245, 150 
16,368 
291, 900 
18, 841 
Pound and trap nets 
' 
Alewives, fresh... 
75, 000 
1, 125 
1 419, 000 
1 6,285 
i 494,000 
7. 410 
Alewives, salted. . 
Alewives, smoked 
1 16, 150 
323 
72, 300 

47,925 
30, 000 
I 3. 163 
1 7l| 875 
1 258, 000 
4 745 
Butter-fish, fresh . 
Eels, fresh 
192, 500 
95,100 
7, 850 
4, 021 
1 8,000 
160 
12, 500 
250 
15,000 
200 
$450 
800 
9,’ 510 
4, 029 
Flounders, fresh . . 
180, 750 
4, 078 
' 2, 000 
! 40* 
3, 666 
66’ 
i 210. 000 
4, 762 
8. 940 
Kingfisli, fresh . . . 
Scup, fresh 
291 
9, 610 
622^ 600 
6, 000 
! " " 180 
:::::::: 
; 200 
6 
5,435,000 
82, 125 
‘6, 063, 800 
91, 921 
! Sea bass, fresh 
14, 100 
484 
| 

200 
6 
459, 200 
12, 605 
473,500 
13, 095 
Shad, fresh 
7, 850 

! 2, 000 
100 
9, 850 
67, 500 
Smelt, fresh 
67, 500 
3,225 
3, 225 
Striped bass, fresh 
55, 240 
5, 102 
1 
:::::::: 
1 13, 500 
1 69, 740 
6, 439 
Squeteague, fresh. 
134, 000 
| 5, 700 
"s’ooo’ 
100 
”2, ’666’ 
120 
' 5, 000 
200 
230,964 
9, 469 
376, 964 
Tautog, fresh 
48, 000 
1,560 
3, 000 
90 
6 , 000 
180 
57, 000 
L 830 
Refuse fish, fresh . 
Miscellaneousfish, 
676, 200 
! 845 
10.000 
! 15 
420,000 
910 
1, 106, 200 
1,770 
fresh 
10, 500 
210 
35, 750 
715 
46, 250 
925 
| 
Total 
47, 635 
21,000 
, 480 
17,500 
430 
36, 600 
965 
7,307,339 
122, 261 
9, 683, 879 . 
171, 771 
Hand and trawl 
lines : 
Bluefish, fresh 
Cod, fresh 
5,000 
j 300 
53, 350 
85, 000 
11, 200 
3,420 
2, 490 
500 
58, 350 
85, 000 
11, 200 
15, 500 
5, 000 
270, 000 
3, 720 
Cod, salted 
’500 
345 
125 
22, 500 
9, 000 
1, 840 
Flounders, fresh . . 
I 15, 500 
345 
Haddock, fresh . . . 
Mackerel, fresh . . . 
5, 000 


270, 000 
120, 000 
51, 520 
22, 500 
9, 000 
1, 840 
Mackerel salted 
120, 000 
51, 520 
Pollock, salted 
Sea bass, fresh. . . . 


18,650 
11, 000 
18' 650 
124, 500 
Tautog, fresh 
68,500 
2,780 
520 i 
45. 000 
2,250 
5,550 
Total 
78, 500 
3, 205 
45, 150 
1, 553 j 
636, 070 
42, 000 
759, 720 
46, 758 
Fyke nets : 
Flounders, fresh . . 
29, 250 
795 
50, 000 
1,200 
35, 000 
1,050 
114, 250 
3, 045 
| Pots : 
1 Eels, fresh 
40, 000 
2, 102 
4,200 
32, 750 
1,638 
26, 000 
1,300 
16, 000 
366,000 
800 
114, 750 
447, 500 
5, 840 
I Lobsters, fresh 
81,500 
16, 770 
20, 970 
Total 
121, 500 
6, 302 
32, 750 
1, 638 ! 
26, 000 
1 , 300 
382, 000 
17, 570 
562, 250 
26, 810 
Miscellaneous : 
| 
Crabs 
4, 460 
37, 750 
1, 125 
4, 460 
330,750 I 
1, 125 
32, 310 
Clams (soft) 
3, 010 
193, 000 
19, 300 
100 , 000 
10, 000 
Quahogs 
192, 000 
20, 250 
44, 100 
20, 900 
2, 250 
20 , 000 
2, 125 
212 , 000 1 
23, 025 
2, 250 
195, 234 
Scallops 
20,250 
Oysters 
2, 100 
450 
9, 074 
588, 595 
112, 599 
388, 073 : 
73,’ ill' 
1 , 022, 868 | 
Total 
44, 310 
4, 585 
449, 350 
51, 524 
708, 595 
124, 724 
388,073 
73, 111 
1,590,328 
253,944 
Grand total... 
3,116,200 
75, 951 
651, 300 
59,343 
787, 120 
128, 215 
424, 673 
74, 076 
8,605,559 
199, 249 
13,584,852 
536, 834~ 
