480 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
since then natives have gathered them in limited quantities for sale at 
the Honolulu market. They are said to have a very good flavor. 
The yield of the fish ponds was very important on this island owing 
to their number and size, as shown by the preceding table. The gill net 
was the most important form of apparatus employed, 290,356 pounds, 
valued at $72,492, being secured. Dip nets were second, with 211,029 
pounds, worth $52,747. The other forms of apparatus took but a 
limited quantity. Amaama was the principal species secured. The 
other species were awa, oopu, opai, and gold-fish. 
The numerous irrigation ditches for transporting water to the rice 
fields and taro patches were employed incidentally in raising china-fish, 
gold-fish, and oopu. ‘The trenches between the rows of Chinese bananas 
were also used for the same purpose. Buta small part of the fish taken 
in these ditches appears in the table given above, as most of it was 
consumed by the families of the fishermen or fisherwomen. 
Fishing is carried on to a limited extent in nearly all of the fresh- 
water streams on the island. These streams are few in number, and 
during a considerable part of the year are almost dry, the rainy season 
being the only time when they are of any consequence. The only 
indigenous species in them are the oopu (gobies) and the opai (shrimp). 
China-fish and gold-fish have been introduced and are taken in limited 
quantities. A considerable proportion of the catch in these waters 
was by people living along their banks, and most of it was consumed 
by the people who caught it. The streams fished commercially were 
the Kaneohe, Nuuanu, Piinaio, and Waiawa. Scoop nets, dip nets, 
and baskets were the forms of apparatus in use. The baskets were 
employed exclusively for opai. Piinaio stream was the most impor- 
tant, followed by Nuuanu, Waiawa, and Kaneohe in the order named. 
The total catch was 6,200 pounds, valued at $1,174. 
Table showing, by rivers and apparatus, the yield of the river fisheries of Oahu in 1900. 






Streams. Apparatus. Species. Lbs. | Value. 
Kameqne: tee nnisienitiseccece SCOOP Mets 2 -- see se see Ching-fish®2 sees eee eee 104 $36 
Qopul so 555 so essacetesoseeee 568 85 
IN (DUS EH 0 ee Sse Ais, SCOODMNCTS oe too opie eel |e OOi sees os esse eee 900 135 
Basketserucsssoto..5-coseene Opaliert: ssacesere ween es 750 188 
PTI ORAS ee cree eee ee sScooppmets sss. - casos cette Ghimertisht 93222 e- eer 114 40 
| Gol@=fish i sec22 no. eee 474 59 
Oop Jas cose eee 1, 068 160 
IBASKCUS permis seh sarc reise coats Opal sass eerceee seer 1, 050 263 
Wialawass. 2sasene S$ Se. ct Se TPM LS tere alates eve arco eat | (Gold-fish: 2-222 22.22 22528e-e6 300 38 
OOP. wsseiseesece se ee oes 490 74 
QOpaitne tess: + hao sees Opal..2c bebo ees eee 382 96 
MOC lesa 2s = eats tn | eS SEC EEE SY es eee ee 6,200 | 1,174 





