362 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
are extensively used in all but t\\’o counties, cbietiy for bluefish, cod, haddock, and sea 
bass. The catch in 1891 was 5,0(50,870 pounds, worth $228,203. Eels are taken with 
pots in Kings County, and lobsters with the same means in Eichmond County. A 
vessel tishery of great interest and value is that carried on from Sutfolk County with 
trap nets, which are operated in a manner entirely similar to that in which gill nets 
or other nets are used from vessels. The nets, to the number of 90 in 1891, are set 
at the eastern end of Long Island, and take large quantities of all the fish common 
to those waters, the principal part of the catch consisting of squeteague, bluefish, 
butter-fish, llounders, scrip, sea bass, and menhaden. The yield in 1891 was 7,200,080 
pounds, valued at $81,413. 
The yield of the shore fisheries in 1891 was 32,030,141 pounds, having a value of 
$2,852,141. The catch of the various mollusks and crirstaceans was 15,191,38(5 pounds, 
worth $2,234,241. Considering the output of fish, it appears that gill nets take the 
largest (juantities and give the greatest money returns of all the forms of apparatus 
employed. The fishes thus obtained which are caught in largest quantities are the 
shad, bluefish, squeteague, and alewives. The aggregate gill-net catch was 4,953,280 
pounds, valued at $222,014. The quantity and value of the seine yield come next; 
4,130,(584 pounds, worth $157,828, were secured in this kind of apparatus. The species 
which enter most conspicuously into the seine fishery are alewives, bluefish, kingfish, 
mullet, sea bass, shad, squeteague, and tomcod, the most important being bhrefish and 
squeteague. I'ouud nets took 2,742,412 pounds in 1891 and 3,228,198 pounds in 1890, 
valued, respectively, at $40,849 and $43,829; squeteague is the most prominent fish 
thus taken, although the menhaden is caught in larger (piantities. Fyke nets yield 
larger money returns than pound nets, but the catch is smaller. Flounders constitute 
the largest and most valuable part of the output. The fyke-net yield was 2,382,882 
pounds, worth $48,903. The catch of eels with iiots is very large, 957,331 pounds, 
valued at $58,441, being secured in 1891. Spears took eels to the value of $32,123, 
and flounders worth $9,020. The line catch was 995,735 pounds of bluefish, cod, 
squeteague, etc., valued at $48,71(5. 
Stalement bij counties, apparatus, and species of the yield of the vessel fisheries of 2\ea’ York. 
Kings. 
Kew York. 
Apparatus and sp(.^cies. 
1890. 
1891. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value, 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
21,960, 000 
$65, 880 
22, 380, OrO 
$70, 870 
Lines : 
190, 950 
184, 500 
7, 095 
86, 000 
1,58, 340 
4, 625 
431, 000 
$22, 120 
15, 910 
409, 000 
$19, 160 
16, 085 
1,650 
Cod 
6, 900 
6,960 
437, 500 
94,000 
1,700 
87 ', 000 
5,000 
500 
400 

30 
500 
30 
155, 000 
6,400 
142, 500 
6,280 
Tanto«>’ 
300 
15 
300 
15 
Total 
367, 250 
15, 040 
245, 140 
11,630 
1, 117,500 
46, 130 
1.097,170 
43, 175 
Pots : 
25, 700 
2,325 
17, 700 
1,500 
6,000 
500 

Ton^s, rakes, and dredges : 
Oyster.s 
Qnahogs or hard clams 
828, 345 
81, 200 
42, 000 
119, 685 
9, 890 
1,700 
729, 120 
69, 200 
21, 000 
111, 540 
8, 735 
900 
859, 250 
25, 840 
120, 350 
2,960 
890, 750 
24, 640 
126, 265 
2,810 
i: 
Total 
951, 515 
131, 275 
819, 320 
121, 175 
885, 090 
123,310 
915,390 
129, 075 
Grand total 
23, 304, 495 
214, 520 
23, 462, 160 
205, 235 
2, 008, .590 
169, 940 
2,012,560 
172, 250 
