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Industries related to the fisheries of North Carolina, 1929 — Continued 

 MANUFACTURING 



Items 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages 



Number 



22 



32 

 21 

 329 



$57, 033 

 150, 560 



Products 1 



Salted: 



Alewives pounds. 



Mullet do.-. 



Spot -_do... 



Canned: 



Oysters-standard cases 2 



By products: 

 Menhaden — 



Dry scrap tons. 



Acid scrap.- do... 



Fish meal do... 



Oil gallons. 



Miscellaneous products 3-_ 



Total. 



Quantity 



875, 000 

 748, 600 

 137, 800 



19, 852 



4,234 



5,887 



2,869 



753, 722 



Value 



$15, 187 

 61,940 

 10, 022 



97, 102 



189, 663 

 158, 184 

 158, 231 

 323, 904 

 151, 304 



1, 165, 537 



FISHERMEN'S PREPARED PRODUCTS 



' Includes the production of 22 firms whose activities were principally in the wholesale trade. 



2 A standard case contains forty-eight 5-ounce cans of oysters. 



3 Includes spiced alewives, canned shrimp, canned alewife roe, and oyster-shell products. 



SOUTH CAROLINA 



The fisheries and industries related to the fisheries of South Carolina 

 in 1929 employed 2,384 fishermen, which is 6 per cent less than the 

 number employed during 1928. Of the total number of persons, 

 1,571 were fishermen, 124 were engaged on transporting vessels and 

 boats, 219 in the wholesale trade, and 470 in manufacturing indus- 

 tries. Of the fishermen, 264 were engaged also in the manufacture of 

 prepared fishery products. 



The total catch amounted to 6,135,133 pounds, valued at $275,118, 

 which is a decrease of 17 per cent in the catch and 13 per cent in the 

 value of the catch, as compared with the catch and its value in the 

 previous year. Of the total value of the catch, that of oysters ac- 

 counted for 46 per cent; shad, 20 per cent; mullet and sea bass, each, 

 8 per cent; shrimp, 6 per cent; and king whiting or "kingfish," 4 per 

 cent. Of the total weight of the catch, that of oysters accounted for 

 75 per cent; mullet and shrimp, each 5 per cent; and sea bass and shad, 

 each 4 per cent. 



OPERATING UNITS BY GEAR 



The catch of fishery products in South Carolina during 1929 was 

 taken by 1,571 fishermen, who used 10 motor vessels, 1,042 motor and 

 other small fishing boats, and 10 major types of gear. The vessels 

 had a combined capacity of 112 net tons. The fisheries accounting 

 for the greatest number of persons were the fishery with grabs em- 

 ploying 555 fishermen, the haul-seine fishery employing 315 fisher- 

 men, and the drift gill-net fishery employing 277 fishermen. 



