FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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The following table, based on the preceding, illustrates the relative quantity and 
value of the products taken in the various kinds of apparatus used in the shore fish- 
eries. It is of interest to observe the great difference which exists between the per- 
centage of quantity and value in some forms of apparatus. Although pound nets and 
trap nets yield over 71 per cent of the shore products, the value of the catch is only 
32 per cent, while dredges, tongs, etc., secure only 11 per cent of the quantity but 47 
per cent of the value. 
106. — Table showing the relative quantity and value of yield in each principal form of apparatus of capture 
employed in the shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 1889. 
Apparatus. 
| Percentage. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Seines 
| 4.29 
2. 91 
Gill .-lets 
; 2.15 
3.51 
Pound nets and trap nets 
71.28 
32. 00 
Fyke nets 
.84 
.56 ; 
Hand lines and trawl lines 
5. 59 i 
8.73 j 
Pots 
4. 14 : 
4. 99 
Miscellaneous 
11.71 ! 
47.30 
Total 
100. 00 
1 100.00 
Certain averages and percentages for each county are given in the next tables. 
Providence County ranks first in the average value of catch per man and also in the 
average value of catch per each $100 invested in apparatus, Bristol County being 
second in both these items. Washington County has the first position in the average 
value of catch per each. $100 invested in boats, followed by Providence County. 
The relative value of the catch in each form of apparatus in each county is shown. 
Pound nets and trap nets yield 63 per cent and 61 per cent, respectively, of the stock 
from the shore fisheries in Washington and Newport counties, and only 1 per cent 
each in Kent and Bristol counties ; while dredges, tongs, etc., take 87 per cent, 97 per 
cent, and 99 per cent, respectively, of the value of the products in Kent, Providence, 
and Bristol counties, and only 6 per cent in Washington county. 
The final table exhibits, for each county, the proportional value of each species to 
the value of the total yield. 
107. — Table showing by counties certain averages and percentages of the shore fisheries of Rhode Island in 
1889. 
1 Counties. 
V alue of 
catcli per 
each $100 
invested 
in boats. 
Value of 
catch per 
each $100 
invested in 
apparatus. 
Value of 
Percentage of value of yield in 
principal forms of apparatus. 
catch per 
each man 
employed. 
Total. 
Pound 
nets and j Seines, 
trap nets. 
Gill 
nets. | 
Fyke 
nets. | 
Lines, j Pots. 
Miscel- 
lane- 
ous. 
Washington. . . 
$1, 045 
$374 
$370 
100. 00 
62. 72 | 16. 81 
.86 
1. 05 
4.22 | 8.30 
6.04 
Kent 
596 
1, 211 
406 
100. 00 
.81 ! 2. 15 
2.82 
2. 02 
2.62 ; 2.76 
1 86.82 
1 Providence . . . 
912 1 
6, 748 I 
100. 00 
.33 | 1. 26 
.12 
J 1.01 
1 97.28 
i Bristol 
827 
4, 938 
100. 00 
1.30 ! 
98.70 
Newport 
886 
265 | 
566 
100. 00 
61.36 i 
8.21 
.53 
21.08 8.82 
1 ! 
