COMMERCIAL FISHERIFS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 475 
THE FISHERIES OF NIIHAU. 
This island is devoted almost exclusively to the raising of sheep, 
and fishing is carried on in a desultory fashion by the employees of 
the sheep ranch and their families. What they do not consume is 
carried across the strait to Waimea, on Kauai, and sold there. A 
small portion of the catch is also dried. Native men and women alone 
engage in the fisheries. The following table shows by apparatus the 
yield of the fisheries in 1900: 




Species. Lbs. Value. 
Lines 
INSTA 5-650 CaS BOO COORDS: BEICEESD SOS BOT DO CECE EERO AScEOOS: FEE Eee Seno aeeeCenne 380 $95 
LN SEAT IG Ts 1G Ne IS a EA 3 ee a en SS ee eee eres Ser, Be Ree aes 3, 100 465 
RELIC ee een eos sho si oboe wie ain iniareins ais cr sciisaais & oleresvlsteeiecetesivinseeiisicc isarate 800 120 
TO eee eats SER Be en aS SA oS as hath = in 58 SSS Be AR eo egscs 7, 200 1, 800 
WU, 52 Se RNs ES Sa eS rey Ses IC eee a eee en 1, 200 480 
Neh ise S55 SE ae he ee Se Re ee eee te ee 2 So Ee ae 4, 400 1, 100 
CUES Tie ES) DS SR Re a a ee Ee eo Se ee 4, 900 
Maa Oe SE as eee soo asian wisinowaeinae saunas taivce 5 oes cease teeadeibas 5, 100 510 
VIER Cs eters tte o seas oan ae See wares oa disci esineee elaid esd ooeaisle Sema ajesiniasier 600 120 
PROTA oe eae a oe etn eae oto tis So aia ee ae a ae tee coe ANAS Tage 27, 680 5,180 
Hands 
LOULETIS en si6 SR Ode ARES OCG SU Roe ane nS AE OH aM an AE een ae RAG I Bees acres 145 15 
OP TMS AS he ae ie a Re ee ae 250 65 
(GINS: ano 58k G eb SURES SER SSE ESS See eres Acca a ae are ene ee ae 1, 200 300 
AAT UE ne Sieh Sho, SS Sere ays Sicko ini no oS late oterelarsl ais aTaroisiniate spas arctan Soawlote Soha see ers 250 63 
SOUR eae os ae sisi tide sistas toe es cee oe eninie o Sao c elstclel na ceine erecroete Six cite seen 1, 845 443 


THE FISHERIES OF MOLOKAI. 
Although one of the larger islands of the group, Molokai has buta . 
very small part of the total population. It must have supported a 
considerable native population at one time, as there area large number 
of fish ponds on the southern side of the island, many of which have 
been abandoned, as, owing to a lack of market consequent upon the 
rapid dying out of the native population, it did not pay to keep them up. 
The island at present is used mainly for grazing, as the lack of water 
makes it unsuitable for the growing of sugar cane. There are no 
harbors along the coast and no settlements of any size. Pukoo and 
Kaunakakai, the principal places, are very small villages. 
About the center of the northern side of the island, on a point of 
land extending a considerable distance out into the ocean, are located 
the two leper settlements, which contain more than half of the total 
population of the island. Fishing is carried on at these settlements by 
the lepers—3 bag nets, valued at $450; 10 cast nets, worth $100, and 
$18 worth of lines, being used. The board of health for the territory, 
which has charge of the settlements, purchases all the fish that are 
caught, provided the fishermen care to dispose of them, at a uniform 
price of 7 cents per pound, and distributes these in lieu of meat ration. 
Should the fishermen wish to sell personally to the people of the settle- 
ments they are permitted to do so. The fishermen are all lepers. 
This fishing has been included in the tables. 
