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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



or the efficiency and industry of the fishery deputies. The resulting 

 records therefore are subject to wide fluctuations in the various 

 fishery administrations and must be given broad interpretation when 

 determining the changing yield of the fisheries. In State records the 



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YEAR 1890 1897 1902 1908 1918 1923 



1. YIELD 0FALLMAR1NE PRODUCTS. 



2. FOOD PRODUCTS.(MARINE PRODUCTS LESS MANHADEN.) 



3. FI5H.(F00D PRODUCTS LESS SHRIMP AND 0Y5TER5.) 



4. 5H0RE FI5H.( FOOD FISH LESS RED 5NAPPER.) 



Fig. 1. 



-Yield of the Texas fisheries. (Data from the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of the 



Census) 



figures representing the total catch include only the actual catch of 

 the shore fisheries, minus oysters, shrimp, crabs, and other marine 

 products. 



TOTAL YIELD 



An examination of the Bureau of Fisheries' reports for the State 

 of Texas shows an enormous increase in the total yield of all fishery 

 products since the first survey, in 1880. From a total yield of less 

 than 4,000,000 pounds the quantity more than doubled in the suc- 

 ceeding 10 years. During the 20 years following the total yield 



