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TABLE 25 



North Carolina Fisheries; Food Fish Only; Quantities, Values, 

 and Prices, 1880-1945 



* Canvassed. 

 t Calculated. 



% Calculated: equivalent number of dollars or cents of constant purchasing power in terms of 

 the all-commodity wholesale price index, 1926 = 100, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 



Composition of the Catch: Principal Species in the Various Years. The 

 series of data in the Tables, 68 to 90, Appendix, show in detail the com- 

 position in descending order of magnitude in both quantity and value of 

 all North Carolina species of food fish, each of which amounted to as much 

 as one per cent of either quantity or value in each of the canvassed years 

 from 1880 to 1945. It can be noticed that in 1880 more than 70 per cent 

 (see "cumulative" columns) of both quantity and value were made up of 

 shad, alewives, mullet, and oysters; that in 1923 the 70 per cent group had 

 grown from four to eight species, being then, in quantity, alewives, oysters, 

 gray trout, shad, croaker, spot, mullet, and shrimp, while in value it is this 

 same group but with croaker, spot, and shrimp giving place to spotted trout, 

 striped bass, and bluefish; and that the downward drift of shad, oysters. 



