nSIIERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1924 



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The investment amounted to $2,320,880 and includes 14 fishing and 

 transporting vessels, valued at $226,400, with a net tonnage of 594 

 tons and outfits valued at $46,033; 1,306 power and row boats, 

 valued at $532,550; fishing apparatus used on vessels and boats, 

 valued at $131,614; shore and accessory property to the value of 

 $1,106,083; and cash capital amounting to $278,200. 



The products amounted to 86,895,922 pounds, valued at $1,719,921. 

 The principal species taken, arranged in the order of their value, were 

 shrimp, 11,024,045 pounds, valued at $385,361 ; menliaden, 57,918,030 

 pounds, valued at $276,209; mullet, 6,198,200 pounds, valued 

 $194,092; Spanish mackerel 2,469,400 pounds, valued at $187,247; 

 cero and kingfish, 1,965,457 pounds, valued at $161,077; bluefish, 

 1,100,550 pounds, valued at $147,321; squeteague or "sea trout," 

 1,198,400 pounds, valued at $122,854; shad, 502,866 pounds, valued 

 at $62,447; catfish, 783,440 pounds, valued at $38,372; alewives, 

 1,048,000 pounds, valued at $26,700; sunfish, 476,809 pounds, valued 

 at $19,672; oysters, 502,264 pounds, or 71,752 bushels, valued at 

 $17,835; and sea crawfish or spiny lobster, 156,200 pounds, valued at 

 $11,634. 



Compared with 1918, there was a decrease of 523, or 15.71 per cent, 

 in the number of persons engaged but an increase of $110,201, or 4.98 

 per cent, in the investment. There was an increase of 5,684,434 

 pounds, or 7 per cent, in the quantity, with a decrease of $26,254, or 

 1.5 per cent, in the value of the products. There was an increase in 

 the catch of alewives, bluefish, blue runner or hardtail, catfish, men- 

 haden, squeteague or ''sea trout," shrimp, crabs, sea crawfish or 

 spiny lobster, oysters, and various other species. There was a 

 decrease in a number of species, the more important of which were 

 mullet, pinfish or sailor's choice, pompano, sergeant fish or snook, 

 shad, Spanish mackerel, and spot. 



wStatistics of the number of persons engaged, investment, and prod- 

 ucts of the fisheries of the east coast of Florida in 1923, by counties, 

 are given in the following table : 



Persons engaged in the fisheries of the east coast of Florida in 1923 



