Elsewhere, as in Georgia, production is fairly unifoiin along 

 the entire coastline of the State. 



IJliite Shr3jnp_ 



Joluison and Lindner make the following suiraiiary comments on the 

 geonraphic concentration of the south Atlantic coast white shrimp fish- 

 ery in 193 14 i/* 



North Carolina - The principal fishing areas are at the mouths 

 of the Neuce and Noxrport Rivers, Core Sound j the coastal iraters approx- 

 imately 10 miles offshore from Cape Lookout north to a point about op- 

 posite Atlantic, North Carolina; coastal waters a similar distance off- 

 shore from about Little River Inlet to Fort Caswell j and coastal waters 

 on the eastern side of South Island. 



South Carolina - In South Carolina there is a small fishery in 

 the vicinity of Georn;otown, but the major portion of the fishing is done 

 in the southern half of the State from Bull Island to Tybae Roads. The 

 areas most productive are off Johns, St, Helena, and Hilton iload Islands 

 and in St, Hulena, Port Royal, and Calibogue Sounds. 



Georgia - The Georgia shrimp fishery is carried on throughout 

 the entire extent of the inside and littoral offshore waters of the State 

 from the Savannah River In the north to the St. Marys River in the south. 

 This coast is fairly imifonu in its production of shrimp, 



Florida - On the east coast of Florida the fishery is more 

 scattered thtin in Georgia and vrLth the exception of the Cape Canaveral 

 fishery is conterod around the mouths of the various inlets of the central 

 and nortliem coast. Other than a fexj shriiap taken near the mouth of the 

 St, Jolins Rivor, pracbically the entire catch of shrimp on this coast of 

 Florida is frora the Atlantic Ocean i/ithin 10 miles of shore. The prin- 

 cipal Florida east coast shrimping grounds are in the vicinity of 

 Fornandajia, the mouth of the St. Jolms River, St, Augustine, Neii Smyrna, 

 and Cape Canaveral, South of the Cape Canaveral grounds, which extend 

 to Mell50Ui-ne, there is no fishei'y of major importance although shrimp 

 ai'o occarjlonally t;ilcon off Vero Boach and Fort Pierce, Fi>5m Fort Piei'ce 

 south therj is no fishery as the coral bottoms make it impossible to 

 opex'ats the otter trawl successfully. 



1/ Fred F. Johnson and Milton J. Lindner, Shrimp Industry of the South 

 Atl anti c and Gulf States , United States Department of Commerce, 

 Bureau of l^'isheries , Investigational Report 21. 



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