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FISHERIES OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF FLORIDA. 



that some of the owners will not replant, especially as their business 

 has entailed heavy losses np to the present. 



In 1895 the oyster fishery of Pensacola and the adjacent bays gave 

 employment to 06 persons, who used 31 sailboats and took 21,850 

 bushels of oysters having a value of $6,910. The oysters are all taken 

 by means of tongs. The capital invested in this business, exclusive of 

 the value of the oyster beds, was $4,112. 



Statistical recapitulation. — The fishing industry centering at Pensa- 

 cola had the following extent in 1895: Persons employed, 535; vessels, 

 42, valued at $231,050; boats, 99, valued at $0,910; value of apparatus 

 of capture, $1,521; value of shore property and cash capital, $112,805; 

 total investment, $358,910; pounds of products taken, 0,490,889; value 

 of the catch, $181,001. 



STATISTICS OF THE FLORIDA FISHERIES. 



In the following series of tables, the extent of the fishing industry 

 of the coastal waters of Florida is shown in detail by counties. The 

 figures relate to the calendar year 1895, with the exception of those per- 

 taining to the northeast coast, as explained in the preceding text. 



The county tables will be found to differ in some minor respects 

 from the figures credited to the principal regions, in the discussion of 

 which the object was to show the importance of the fishing centering- 

 there, without regard to county limits. 



Table showing by counties the persons employed in the coast fisheries of Florida. 



