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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
lobsters is greater than in all the other counties combined, being 887,700 pounds, 
valued ait $45,355. The bulk of the catch consists of algae. Middlesex County takes 
the largest quantities of eels and shad. The entire output of the county was 7,504,109 
pounds, for which the fishermen received $46,691 ; of this quantity 6,500,000 pounds 
were algae. 
123. — Table showing by counties the number of persons engaged in the shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1889. 
Counties. j No. 
Hew London 
Middlesex . . 
New Haven. 
Fairfield 
Total .. 
247 
182 
277 
546 
1,252 1 
124. — Table showing by counties the apparatus employed in the shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1889. 
Designation. 
Hew London. 
Middlesex. 
New Haven. 
Fairfield. | 
Total. | 
No. 
Value, j 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
t 
259 
$21, 235 
400 
174 
$8, 015 
100 
272 
$23, 280 
120 
648 
$46, 065 
2, 110 
$98, 595 
2, 730 
37, 800 
g e i nes 
2 
8 
30 
43 
Pound nets 
51 
10, 700 
36 
17, 400 
1, 760 
26 
9, 700 
154 
' 113 
Gill nets 
20 
150 
22 
10 
10 
460 
' 62 
2, 524 
2,230 
Fyke nets 
364 
1, 790 
21 
105 
17 
85 
250 
440 
110 
20 
60 
90 
Pots 
5, 182 
14, 361 
110 
2,734 
1,169 
1,578 
686 
894 
9, 771 
19, 719 
Spears 
60 
15 
20 
205 
3, 070 
2, 665 
550 
240 
6,525 
ts 1 ’ 
r rnf.al 
51, 926 
33, 011 
35, 542 
50, 129 
170, 608 
1 
125. — Table showing by counties and species the yield of the shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1889. 
Species. 
New London. 
Middlesex. 
New Haven. 
Fairfield. 
Total. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Alewives, fresh 
Bluefish, fresh 
Butter-fish, fresh 
32^ 520 
35, 000 
6, 445 
$165 
1, 823 
914 
322 
41, 392 
$280 
8, 600 
12, 300 
7, 400 
$225 
950 
150 
18, 810 
$1, 640 
53, 272 
63, 630 
42, 400 
6,445 
5,000 
315, 150 
626, 200 
123, 500 
6,300 
7,330 
6, 652, 880 
280 
40, 956 
6,800 
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 
24, 930 
12, 828 
4, 875 
290 
13, 757 
222 
3, 046 
170 
L 042 
8, 193 
3,430 
10, 405 
174 
57! 035 
| 300 
1. 280 | 
! 24,900 
20,714 
230 
225, 107 1 
| 6, 500 
4,903 
Cod, fresh 
Cunners, fresh 
5,000 
116, 750 
8,200 
200 
170 
Eels, fresh 
Flatfish and flounders, 
fresh 
Frosttish or tomcod, fresh . 
Haddock, fresh 
139, 900 
526, 000 
21, 600 
6, 300 
7, 330 
19, 167 
8,295 
10, 363 
500 
290 
980 
15, 500 
4, 500 
1, 340 
100 
43, 000 
87, 500 
101, 900 
5, 215 
2, 195 
4, 375 
Mackerel, fresh 
Menhaden, fresh 
Salmon, fresh 
327, 227 
10, 800 
658 
204 
640 
6, 306, 486 
20 
11, 000 
13, 010 
18 
780 
Sea bass, fresh 
Scup, fresh 
7, 856 
6, 800 
1, 925 
11, 200 
172, 340 
24, 970 
140, 300 
11, 640 
92, 360 
887, 700 
8, 300 
656 
170 
87 
850 
6, 443 
2, 470 
6, 525 
174 
469 
45,355 
300 
11, 300 
970 
Shad, fresh 
Smelt, fresh 
141,880 
11, 979 
19, 147 
1, 515 
32, 900 
1, 600 
18, 140 
11, 300 
24,400 
2, 999 
192 
1,060 
780 
1, 200 1 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped bass, fresh , . . . 
Tautog, fresh 
Whiting, fresh 
1, 000 
25, 000 
1,250 
14, 000 
' 1,500 
27, 600 
690 
100 
1,430 
Miscellaneous fish, fresh . . 
Lobsters 
Crabs 
142, 000 
61, 000 
535 
3, 380 
72, 500 
88, 000 
855 
6, 600 
17, 700 
1,700 
Terrapin 
3,057 
87, 500 
124, 480 
2,700 
1, 063, 769 
7, 800, 000 
2, 800, 000 
1,280 
6, 990 
15, 710 
230 
121, 122 
6, 500 
527 
Clams (soft) 
Quahogs 

12 ’ 456 
1, 530 
99 
62, 000 
7,200 
101, 500 
42, 360 
9,180 
4, 905 
Oysters 
Oyster shells 
15, 120 
4,165 
61, 600 
9,225 
927, 773 
90, 595 
■ Algse 
Total 
7, 190, 000 
2, 706 
6, 500, 000 _ 
810 
2, 170, 000 
860 
9, 381, 109 
95, 740 
7, 504, 109 
46, 691 
9, 830, 186 
133, 303 
12, 250, 056 
174, 685 
38, 965, 460 
450,419 
