FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
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The quantities and values of products taken in each of the principal forms of appa- 
ratus employed in the shore fisheries are shown in the next table. Pound nets and 
trap nets are the most important means of capture employed in taking' fish proper; 
the yield was 7,556,665 pounds, worth $43,288. Lines rank next as far as the value 
of the fish is concerned, but fyke nets catch larger quantities of fish. If lobsters are 
considered, pots produce larger returns than pound nets and trap nets, the stock in 
1889 being $71,450. Dredges, tongs, rakes, and other miscellaneous apparatus natu- 
rally secured the largest quantities of products, which consisted chiefly of shellfish. 
126. — Table showing by counties and apparatus the yield of the shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1889. 
Apparatus and species. 
New London. 
Middlesex. 1 
New Haven. 
Fairfield. 
Total. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
V alue. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pound nets and trap nets : 
3,280 
$165 
39, 392 
$265 
| 8, 600 
$225 
51, 272 
7, 550 
42, 400 
45 
$655 
391 
1, 064 
Butter-fisli, fresh 
914 

7, 400 
150 
Flatfish and flounders, 
183, 900 
3, 551 
7 , 000 
140 
190, 900 
55, 600 
4, 330 
3,691 
2, 515 
55, 000 
$ 2, 500 
4, 330 
620 
Menhaden fresh .... 
18, 667 
87 
327, 227 
658 
6 , 209, 986 
20 
12, 575 
18 
’280 
6,800 
2 , 006 
107 , 652 
170, 000 
24, 350 
19, 100 
11 , 640 
306, 860 
13, 320 
222 
170 
201 
204 
Sr j,’ ^ 
6 , 800 
2, 006 
170 
Coo hooo -f-rooll 
201 
Shad fresh 
1 , 925 
89, 730 
7,847 
15, 997 
6,000 
1 , 255 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped bass, fresh. . . 
164 , 000 
24 , 350 
5,865 
2,410 
700 
240 
6’ 105 
2, 410 
700 
174 
1,859 
19, 100 
Whiting fresh 
1 11, 640 
174 
Miscellaneous, fresh . 
| 92, 360 
469 
142 , 000 
535 
72, 500 
855 
Total 
575 , 553 
15, 821 
605, 609 
9, 649 
6 , 320, 503 
15, 318 
55, 000 
2 , 500 
7 , 556 , 665 
43 288 
O, L.OO 
Seines : 
Alewives, fresh 
2, 000 
15 
2 , 000 
3,060 
15 
' 205 
10 1 
310 
350 
1,979 
892 
420 
485 
Bluefish fresh: 
3, 060 
100 
205 
Eels fresh 
10 
100 
Flatfish andflounders, 

I 
! 13, 500 
310 
13, 500 
9, 400 
22, 050 
10, 600 
6,840 
6,450 
Frostfish fresh . . . 
9, 400 
350 
3,150 
260 
18, 900 
1, 600 
1, 719 
Smelt fresh 
9,000 
400 
700 
192 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped hass, fresh . . . 
25 
6, 440 
395 
400 
35 
6, 050 
450 
Total 
9 , 400 
725 
2,400 
50 
3, 150 
260 
59, 050 
3,631 
74, 000 
4 , 666 
Gill nets: 
Bluefish, fresh 
870 
77 
4,000 
30, 000 
200 
500 
35 
5 , 370 
30 , 500 
66, 150 
14 , 2<*0 
312 
62 
Menhaden, fresh 
“500 
2 
60 
Shad, fresh 
52, 150 
4,132 
14, 000 
1 , 280 
15 
5,412 j 
868 
Squeteague, fresh 
Striped bass, fresh — 
7 , 940 
553 
6, 000 
300 
300 
620 
60 
620 
60 | 
Total 
9, 930 
692 
52, 150 
4, 132 
40, 000 
560 
14, 800 
1, 330 
116, 880 
6 , 714 
Fyke nets : 
Flatfish and flounders. 
fresh .... 
6,429 
485 
1, 200 
30 
4,500 
100 
16 , 000 
. 5 , 000 
340 
347, 400 
26 , 000 
66 , 500 
7, 350 
8,000 
” - 
6, 899 
660 
375 
475 
350 
Frostfish, fresh .... 
21,000 
175 
Menhaden, fresh 
66, 500 
1,500 
375 
Striped bass, fresh. 
600 
45 
100 
5,250 
330 
Tautog, fresh 
8 , 000 
350 

Total 
354,700 
7,264 
1, 800 
75 
72, 500 
575 
26,250 
845 
455 , 250 
8, 759 
