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In the shore or boat fisheries the catch amounted to 11,663,012 

 pounds, valued at $464,527. The apparatus used included gill nets, 

 ^abs, tongs, otter trawls, and lines. The catch with gill nets, con- 

 sisting of a number of species and including as its most important 

 item the entire catch of shad, amounted to 188,298 pounds, valued 

 at $34,094. The catch with grabs consisted of 824,670 pounds, or 

 117,810 bushels, of oysters, valued at $38,918, and with tongs, 776,545 

 pounds, or 110,935 bushels, valued at $43,865. Otter trawls took 

 9,661,780 pounds of shrimp, valued at $338,162. The entire catch 

 of shrimp m both the vessel and shore fisheries was taken with this 

 apparatus, but no other species was taken. Lines were used in 

 taking hard crabs, the catch amounting to 120,000 pounds, valued 

 at $7,000, which was the total catch of this species for the State. 

 There were taken by hand, without apparatus, 91,119 pounds, or 

 13,017 bushels, of oysters, valued at $1,988, and 600 pounds of ter- 

 rapin, valued at $500. 



The products taken with the various forms of fishing apparatus 

 employed in the vessel and shore or boat fisheries are given by 

 counties and species in the appended tables: 



Yield of the vessel fisheries of Georgia in 1923, by apparatus, species, and counties 



