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MARINE FISHERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



TABLE 1 



Comparison of Fisheries with Agriculture, Forestry and 

 Manufacturing in Coastal Counties 



1936 to 1940, inclusive, was $2,019,632, which may be compared with farm 

 income of $33,900,000 in 1940. The average number of fishermen was 6,909 

 (of whom about 1,500 were employed casually) which may be compared with 

 27,991 farmers and farm managers. While the region is not considered a 

 manufacturing community, it furnished in 1939 employment to 10,131 wage 

 earners who received $6,052,000 in wages and added a value of $19,553,000 

 by manufacture. Thus the fisheries employed (full or part time) 24.7 per cent 

 as many persons, and produced 6.0 per cent as much value as agriculture, and 

 employed 69.0 per cent as many persons as received wages in manufacturing 

 while producing only 32.3 per cent as muchJn gross value as were paid in 

 wages in manufacturing and 10.2 per cent as much as the value added by 

 manufacture. In 1942, the 21 counties produced 317,678,000 board feet of 



