COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 451 
EXPORTS OF FISHERY PRODUCTS. 
Owing to the large home demand, the islands have exported but little. 
The béche-de-mer and sharks’ fins have usually been shipped to China 
or to the Chinese residents in California, while the.gold-fish were sent 
to California, where they were probably used for ornamental purposes. 
The exporting was carried on in a small way during the period from 
1853 to 1876, in some years nothing being shipped. 
The following table shows, by years, the exports of each species: 





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INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF FISHES, ETC. 
The fresh waters of the Hawaiian Islands are too limited to justify 
extensive experiments in acclimatization. The streams are necessarily 
short and during the rainy season they become raging torrents, while 
in the dry season they are either totally dry or else a series of stagnant 
pools. The principal streams are on Kauai, Oahu, and Hawaii. The 
only native fishes in the streams are species of gobies, known collect- 
ively as oopu. These have some value as food, but are not highly 
esteemed. Opai, or shrimp, are also abundant in the streams. 
Although the waters in and adjacent to the islands teem with fishes 
and other denizens of the sea, numerous efforts have been made to 
introduce additional species. Among the principal species so far 
introduced are the following: 
Black bass.—Black bass would probably thrive in the fresh-water 
streams, and as the streams are filled with shrimp, there would be an 
abundant food supply for them. During the summer of 1897 a num- 
ber of the citizens of Hilo procured ashipment of black bass from the 
California Fish Commission. In October, 90 of them (about 6 inches 
in length) were shipped from San Francisco on a Hilo sailing packet, 
and 55 were living when the vessel arrived. Through some oversight 
they remained on board several days, 34 of them dying in the mean- 
