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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The quantity and value of fish taken in each form of apparatus are shown in the 
next tabulation. Lines yield the largest money returns, but seines secure the greatest 
quantities of fish. 
130. — Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of the vessel fisheries of Connecticut in 1889, exclusive 
of the molluscan, crustacean, and mammalian fisheries. 
Apparatus and species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Apparatus and species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
Mackerel, salted 
Menhaden, fresh 
13. 800 
41, 338, 834 
$1,239 
86,812 
Lines— continued. 
Mackerel, salted 
Pollock, fresh 
Ked snapper, fresh 
Sea bass, fresh 
Squeteague, fresh 
Tail tog, fresh 
2, 300 
17, 400 
520, 000 
209, 245 
2, 165 
21, 340 
$300 
365 
16, 800 
13,595 
105 
947 
Total 
41, 352, 634 
88, 051 
Lines: 
Bluefish fresh 
453, 326 
1. 523, 418 
1 780 
22, 970 
49, 696 
Cod. fresh 
Total 
132,903 
Haddock, fresh 
199| 290 
5, 309 
Harpoons: 
Swordfish, fresh 
Hake fresh . . . 
900 
15 
146, 190 
8,285 
Halibut fr^sh 
264, 890 
26. 170 
20,293 
2,331 
Mackerel, fresh 
Grand total 
44. 747, 048 
229, 239 
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From Table 121, giving the full extent of each fishery in which the vessels of Con- 
necticut engaged, it will be seen that mollusks, of which the oyster was chief, were the 
objects of capture by more vessels than any other product ; 113 vessels were so employed. 
The shore fishery was followed by 37 vessels, the lobster fishery by 22 vessels, and the 
market fishery for cod, haddock, bluefish, sea bass, etc., by 27 vessels. The other fish- 
eries had from 4 to 11 vessels each. As previously explained in discussing similar 
tables, the object of such a presentation is to exhibit the greatest number of vessels 
engaged in each fishery during any portion of the year, together with their tonnage, 
value, and crew, all of which items are duplicated to the extent to which each vessel 
follows two or more fisheries. The catch, however, is not duplicated, and represents 
simply the results obtained in each fishery. 
The market fishery, according to Table 122, yields a larger stock than any other 
fishery except the oyster, the 27 vessels therein employed taking products to the 
value of $104,072, an average of $3,855 per vessel. The menhaden fishery comes next, 
with $86,812, or $14,469 per vessel. The vessels in the shore fishery stocked $26,360, 
or $713 each; while $26,064 resulted from the lobster fishery, the vessels earning $1,185 
each. The 113 vessels composing the oyster and clam fleet took products to the value 
of $831,100, averaging $7,355. 
131. — Table showing the number of vessels engaged in each fishery in Connecticut in 1889, together with 
their tonnage, value, and number of crew. 
