Rhode Island Code § 21-15-4

Construction, size, and packing of casks
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Every cask shall be well seasoned and bound with twelve (12) hoops. Casks for menhaden and herrings shall be of the capacity to hold twenty-eight gallons (28 gals.), and those for other fish of the capacity, if a barrel, to hold two hundred pounds (200 lbs.), and if a half barrel, one hundred pounds (100 lbs.) weight of fish. Each cask shall be full and the fish shall be sound and well cured.

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