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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
112. — Table of products. 
Vessel fisheries. 
Shore fisheries. 
Alewives, fresh 
Bluefish, fresh 
Butter-fish, fresh 
Cod, fresh 
Cunners, fresh 
Eels, fresh 
Flatfish and flounders, fresh . 
Frostfish or tomcod. fresh . . . 
Haddock, fresh 
Hake, fresh 
Halibut, fresh 
Mackerel, fresh 
Mackerel, salted 
Menhaden, fresh 
Pollock, fresh 
Red snappers, fresh 
Salmon, fresh 
Sea bass, fresh 
Scup, fresh 
Shad, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped bass 
Swordfish, fresh 
Tautog, fresh 
Whiting, fresh 
Miscellaneous fish, fresh 
Lobsters 
Crabs 
Terrapin 
Clams (soft) 
Quahogs 
Scallops 
Oysters 
Oyster shells e 
Pounds. 
Value. 
453, 326 
$22, 970 
1 . 523. 418 
49, 696 
7,780 
177 
199, 290 
900 
264, 890 
26, 170 
16, 100 
41,338,834 
17, 400 
! 520, 000 
5. 309 
15 i 
20, 293 
2,331 
1, 539 ! 
86, 812 
365 
16, 800 
209, 245 
13,595 
s 
2, 165 
105 
j if6, 190 
21,340 
8,285 j 
947 1 
| 446, 890 
26, 064 | 
:i, coo 
400 
8.332,765 
830, 700 
””i76, ’rail 
8,610 
12,074 
1,107,087 
53, 272 
63, 630 
42, 400 
6,445 
5, 000 
315, 150 
626, 200 
123, 500 
6, : 
195, 852 
12, 800 
204, 480 
38, 770 
""'217,' 300 
11, 640 
306, 860 
1, 054, 400 
8, 300 
3, 057 
263, 600 
167, 296 
2,700 
2, 068, 262 
7, 800, 000 
18, 660, 000 
$670 
4,413 
1,064 
322 
200 
24, 930 
12, 828 
4, 875 
290 
. 529, 863 
5, 000 
315, 150 
16, 580 
1, 042 
8, 193 
3,430 
900 
264, 890 
33, 500 
16, 100 
47, 991, 714 
17, 400 
520, 000 
280 
250, 201 
6, 800 
195, 852 
12, 800 
206, 645 | 
146,’ 190 
238, 640 
11, 640 
306, 860 
I 1, 501, 290 
8, 300 
3, 057 
a 263, 600 
b 170, 896 
c 2, 700 
<210,401, 027 
/7, 800, 000 
18, 060, 000 
h ire," 7oi 
450, 419 92, 672, 464 
$670 
27, 383 
1, 064 
50, 018 
3, 311 
1, 539 
100, 569 
16, 641 
170 
16, 580 
1,042 
8, 298 
3, 430 
8, 285 
11, 352 
174 
a. 26, 360 bushels. 6 21,362 bushels. c 772 bushels. d 1,485,86] "bushels. 
cln addition to the figures given for shells in the above table, which represent only the output of the shell beds in the 
Housatonic River, 41,290,000 pounds, valued at $33,032, were also handled, their value being included with that of the 
oysters when the latter were first disposed of. 
/130.000 bushels. g The value of 1,326 seal and other skins. h 23,560 gallons. 
THE VESSEL FISHERIES. 
The fishing fleet of Connecticut is next in size to the fleets of Massachusetts and 
Maine, and is noteworthy for a larger number of steam vessels than is found elsewhere 
in the fisheries of the United States. The vessel fisheries of Connecticut of special 
importance are those for bluefish, cod, halibut, red snapper, menhaden, lobsters, and 
oysters, the last named being the most extensive fishery in the State. The red-snapper 
fishery is prosecuted off the coast of Florida. Detailed tables exhibiting almost every 
phase of the vessel fisheries are presented. 
There are three counties in Connec ticut from which vessel fisheries are carried 
on, viz, New London, New Haven, and Fairfield, each of which has fisheries of con- 
siderable prominence. 
The first table of the county series shows 1,062 persons employed on vessels, of 
whom 557 belong in New London County, 273 in New Haven County, and 232 in Fair- 
field County. Of the different nationalities represented by the fishermen the United 
States greatly predominates, with 916 men, or 86.2 per cent, after which come Portugal 
with 52 men or 4.9 per cent; Sweden and Norway, with 61 men or 5.8 per cent; British 
Provinces with 26 men or 2.4 per cent, and other countries with 7 men or 0.7 per cent. 
