Table 6. --Commercial fisheries shore plant installations, Florida west coast, 1967- 



Number of firms 



Employees Value of Value 



County „. Wholesale at peak Man processed of 



° ? sa e and Total of season years products landings 

 only 



processing 



Bay 9 10 19 131 110 $270,600 -'$1,471,208 



Charlotte 4 3 7 65 166,900 398,201 



Collier 12 12 54 38 ,.— 927,322 



Citrus 2 1 3 19 17 322,913 



Dixie 11 3 14 85 74 495, -'232,890 



Escambia 7 7 14 74 70 217,600 923,668 



Franklin 11 55 66 693 560 3,02:. 2,119,510 



Gulf 2 3 5 42 32 53,000 266,442 



Hillsborough... 21 12 33 1,329 1,299 46,588,700 1,98 



Lee 22 4 26 166 131 360.300 3,558.807 



Leon 1 1 40 33 



Levy 4 10 14 46 42 238,000 266,349 



Manatee 8 8 31 25 ,,-— 694,769 



Monroe 36 1 37 193 148 7,655,343 



Okaloosa 5 3 8 27 26 43 300 .403,800 



Pasco 1 12 4 3 £'— I' 43, 627 



Pinellas 23 6 29 196 157 1,312,300 1,324,489 



Polk 1 1 56 48 107 — 



Santa Rosa 9 2 11 12 12 42,491 



Sarasota 11 11 23 22 — 2 ? 1 t 097 



Taylor 3 1 4 44 16 



Wakulla 2 13 15 216 190 1,152 600 175,022 



Walton 2 13 3 3 30,019 



Total 205 343 3,549 3,114 53,924,900 23,117,317 



— Source: U. S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, Branch of Fishery Statistics -- Region 2, Gulf and South Atlantic Region. 



r-.Combined with Washington County. 

 ^--Combined with Levy County. 

 ■r.Combined with Taylor County. 

 ^-■Combined with Wakulla County. 

 ■y.No landings. 

 tt. Combined with Lee County, 

 q/combined with Hillsborough County. 

 -r-Combined with Hernando County. 

 yy.Combined with Escambia County. 

 y? .Combined with Dixie County. 



— Combined with Okaloosa County. 



marketing. Table 6 records the value of pro- 

 cessed products as well as several other aspects 

 of the industry. Tampa in Hillsborough County 

 is by far the major processing center. An in- 

 teresting and important feature of the commer- 

 cial fisheries is the much greater diversity of 

 species' from Tampa Bay southward (Fig. 41), 

 a reflection of the subtropical conditions of the 

 southwest coast. Also, the high productivity, 

 location of processing plants and the high local 

 demand for seafood combine to support greater 

 landings on the southwest coast than at ports to 

 the north (Fig. 42). 



Deepwater ports are located at Boca Grande 

 (mouth of Charlotte Harbor) , Port Manatee and 

 Tampa (Tampa Bay), Port St. Joe (St. Joseph 

 Bay) , Panama City (St. Andrew Bay) , and Pen- 



* We use the word "species" in its commercial sense 

 rather than in its biological sense. Ingle (1970) included 

 a list of common and scientific names of species landed 

 in Florida in his annual summary of commercial marine 

 landings. 



sacola (Pensacola Bay). Tampa handles by far 

 the greatest volume of shipping (U.S. Army, 

 Corps of Engineers, 1969) and was the seventh 

 busiest port in the United States in 1968 in ton- 

 nage handled— 27,436,709 short tons (24,890,164 

 metric tons) . The major exports were phos- 

 phate rock, superphosphate, fertilizer, and scrap 

 iron and steel ; principal imports included pe- 

 troleum products, coal, sulfur, fruits, and grains. 



POLLUTION 



The State has classified its waters in five cate- 

 gories ranging in purity from drinking water, 

 Class I, to grossly polluted, Class V, (Florida 

 State Board of Health, 1967b; U.S. Federal 

 Water Pollution Control Administration, 1967; 

 Ch. 28-5, Supp. 52, Fla. Statutes). The only 

 coastal waters in Class V are the Fenholloway 

 River, Eleven Mile Creek discharging to Perdido 

 Bay, and Hillsborough Bay (including McKay 

 Bay), although the Gulf County Canal connect- 

 ing St. Joseph Bay with the Intracoastal Water- 



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