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several other places falls of over 10 feet per mile occur, with very great 

 velocity of current. In the early i^art of the present century shad 

 annually migrated In quantities to the headwaters of the Savannah and 

 throughout the Tugaloo, 49 miles in length, and for a distance of 10 

 miles up the Tallulah, an important tributary of that stream, where 

 their farther progress was barred by Tallulah Falls, 384 miles by the 

 river course from the sea. Since 184G the dam above Augusta has 

 acted as a barrier to the farther ascent of most of the shad that find 

 their way to that point. The few that pass through the sluices are not 

 sufficiently numerous to warrant commercial fisheries, but they are 

 occasionally taken in apparatus set primarily for other species a dis- 

 tance of 80 or more miles above Augusta. 



THE SHAD FISHERIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The following tables show, by water-courses, the extent of each 

 branch of the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 1890, The unusually 

 large number of persons employed for the small number of shad caught 

 is very noticeable, the average yield per man being less than 100 shad: 



Statement of the nimiber of men employed in the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 1S96. 



a Cast-net fishermen. h Wheel and fall-trap fishermen. 



Statement of the apparatus, etc., employed in the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 18^6. 



