FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1931 



119 



Fisheries of the United States and Alaska, 1930 — Continued 

 OPERATING UNITS: By sections— Continued 



Item 



Pacific 



Lakes 



Mississip- 

 pi River 

 and trib- 

 utaries 



A laska 



Total 



Boats: 



Motor . 



Other. 



Apparatus: 



Haul seines. 



Purse seines 



Lampara nets 



Otter trawls (including all types and sizes) . 



Beam trawls 



Paranzella nets ..- 



Gill nets 



Trammel nets 



Pound nets, trap nets, and weirs 



Stop nets .'-- -- 



Fyke nets 



Bag nets and pocket nets 



Other nets * 



Hooks, baits, or snoods 



Fish wheels 



Eel pots and traps 



Lobster pots 



Shrimp nets and traps 



Crab and crawfish pots, traps, drags, etc--- 



Clam dredges 



Crab dredges. 



M ussel dredges 



Oyster dredges 



Scallop dredges and drags 



Crab sera pes 



Tongs, rakes, hoes, forks, grabs, etc 



Crowfoot bars (pairs) 



Abalone outfits 



Sponge apparatus 



Other apparatus ' 



Number 

 5,942 

 1,614 



212 

 395 

 241 



Number 

 2,215 

 1,664 



Number 

 4,597 

 10, 941 



Number 

 1,814 

 3,439 



189 

 703 



55 



16 



5,108 



61 



670 



93, 542 



94 

 7,947 



866 



459 



11 



2,102 



69 



389 



1, 196, 533 



39 



2,515 



27 

 828, 571 



W 



4,360 



18, 634 



5,418 



3,479 



""il 



804 



285 



1,810 

 3,490 



4,592 



(») 



5,290 

 ""'708 



W 



Number 

 35, 437 

 37, 961 



3,426 



1,447 



241 



3, 063 



64 



16 



159, 989 



1,063 



15, 989 



93 



66, 509 



251 



5,538 



9, 508, 149 



355 



30, 394 



384, 737 



4,360 



32, 206 



239 



235 



8 



2,660 



5,995 



1,850 



28,838 



3,775 



13 



338 



10, 253 



CATCH: By sections ? 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars; that is, 000 omitted] 



< Includes dip nets, cast nets, scap nets, reef nets, and other minor nets. 

 5 Number not determined. 



I Includes box traps, wire baskets, harpoons, spears, gatTs, crab and crawfish hooks, periwinkle and cockle 

 pots, and other apparatus not included in " Other nets." 

 " Salt fish have been converted to the basis of round weight. 

 * Includes the catch of fish taken in Lake Okeechobee, P"la. 

 » I^ess than 500 pounds or $500. 



Note. — Whaling apparatus, the number of which was not determined, was used in the Pacific Coast 

 States and Alaska. 



