FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. 
175 
A table of averages and percentages is next given and discloses some interesting- 
facts. The average value of catch for each man engaged in the shore fisheries varied 
from $256 in Middlesex County to $481 in New Haven County. The average stock for 
each $100 invested in boats ranged from $379 in Fairfield County to $583 in Middle- 
sex County. The average value of catch per each $100 invested in apparatus has 
a wide range, from $187 in Middlesex County to $4,367 in Fairfield County, the fish- 
ermen in the latter county taking mostly products of a relatively high price with a com- 
paratively inexpensive kind of apparatus. The percentage of the value of the catch 
with each form of apparatus is shown for the various counties. 
128. — Table showing by counties certain averages and percentages of the shore fisheries of Connecticut in 1889 
Counties. 
| 
Value of 
catch per 
each $100 
invested 
in boats. 
Value of 
catch per 
each $100 
invested in 
apparatus. 
Value of 
catch per 
each man 
employed. 
Percentage of value of yield in principal forms i 
>f apparatus. 
1 
Total. | 
Pound 
nets 
and trap 
nets. 
| Seines. 
Gill 
nets. 
Pots. 
Mis- ; 
Spears . cella- j 
neous. 
New London.. . 
$452 
$312 
$388 
1 100.00 
16. 53 
.76 
.72 
j 
7.59 9.08 
50. 08 
6.05 9.19 
Middlesex 
583 
i 187 
256 
100.00 
20.66 
1 .11 
8. 85 
.16 4. 48 
21. 72 
7. 11 36. 91 1 
New Haven 
572 
i 1, 084 
481 
100.00 
11.49 
j .20 
.42 
.43 2.33 
5. 37 
. 59 79. 17 1 
Fairfield 
379 
4, 367 
320 
100.00 
1.43 
2.08 
.76 
. 48 | 3. 89 
3.55 
.59 ! 87.22 
The relative importance of each species in the different counties is next exhibited, 
the figures presenting the percentage of the value of the various products to the total 
stock in each county. 
129. — Table showing by counties the percentage of value of each species to the total yield of the shore fisheries 
of Connecticut in 1889. 
