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canned fishery products and by-products may be obtained from 

 Fisheries Document No. 1095, entitled "Fishery Industries of the 

 United States, 1929." 



Industries related to the fisheries of Georgia, 1929 

 TRANSPORTING 



Items 



Persons engaged on transporting boats_ 

 Transporting boats 



Number 



WHOLESALE 



Items 



Chatham 



and Liberty 



Counties 



Glynn and 

 Camden 

 Counties 



Total 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages 



20 

 16 

 127 



11 



1 



110 



$57, 220 

 61, 169 



$400 

 38, 240 



118, 389 



31 



17 



237 



$57, 620 

 99, 409 



157, 029 



MANUFACTURING 



1 Includes pickled shrimp prepared by one firm whose activities were principally in the wholesale fishery 

 trade. 



» A standard case contains forty-eight 5-ounce cans of oysters, forty-eight 5-ouiice cans in dry pack, or 

 forty-eight 5^-ounce cans in the wet pack of shrimp. 



3 Includes canned hard clam chowder, caimed terrapin soup and meat, pickled shrimp in vinegar and 

 menhaden products. 



FLORIDA 



The fisheries and industries related to the fisheries of Florida in 

 1929 employed 10,918 fishermen, which is 1 per cent more than the 

 number employed in 1928. Of the total number of persons, 9,003 

 were fishermen, 41 were employed on transporting vessels, 1,387 in 

 the wholesale trade, and 487 in manufacturing industries. Of the 

 fishermen, 127 were engaged also in the manufacture of prepared 

 fishery products. 



The total catch am.ounted to 145,953,078 pounds, valued at 

 $6,119, 947, which is an increase of 11 per cent in the catch and a 

 decrease of 2 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, mullet accounted for 18 per cent; sponges and shrimp, each 14 

 per cent; and red snapper, 10 per cent. Of the total weight of the 

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