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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Persons Engaged, Investment, and Products of the Fisheries of North 

 Carolina in 1918, by Counties — Continued. 



1 436,815 in number. 

 • 701,115 in number. 



» 24,697 bushels. 

 < 214,362 bushels. 



5 2,600 bushels. 

 • 70,472 bushels. 



FISHERIES BY APPARATUS. 



In the vessel fisheries of North CaroHna, in which seven counties 

 are represented, the forms of apparatus in use inchided purse seines, 

 gill nets, lines, otter trawls, oyster dredges, and oyster tongs. The 

 total yield from all forms of apparatus used on vessels was 179,072,191 

 pounds, valued at $1 ,355,684. The catch with purse seines amounted 

 to 178,101,814 pounds, valued at $1,305,057, of which 177,868,599 

 pounds, valued at $1,297,582, were menhaden. Other of the more 

 important species taken in purse seines included mullet, 71,165 

 pounds, valued at $2,630; croakers, 57,000 pounds, valued at $1,765; 

 and spots, 69,300 pounds, valued at $1,385. Gill-net fishing yielded 

 83,300 pounds of fish, chiefly squeteague, croaker, kingfish, and 

 bluefish, valued at $6,265, and was prosecuted only from vessels 

 operating in Carteret County. The catch of sea bass with lines was 

 47,500 pounds, valued at $4,725. Shrimp were taken with otter 

 trawls to the amount of 10,000 pounds, valued at $300; oysters 

 with dredges, 725,218 pounds, or 103,603 bushels, valued at $34,912; 

 and oysters with tongs, 104,359 pounds, or 14,908 bushels, valued at 

 $4,425. 



In the shore or boat fisheries pound nets were the most productive 

 form of apparatus, the catch amounting to 16,233,529 pounds, 

 valued at $683,292. The catch of alewives in pound nets amounted 

 to 12,254,728 pounds, valued at $301,577, or 75 per cent in quantity 

 and 44 per cent in value of the total take by this lorm of gear. Other 

 species of importance were squeteagues, shad, and butterfish. The 

 catch with seines in the shore fisheries amounted to 6,028,340 pounds, 

 valued at $340,795, of which 5,605,300 pounds, valued at $332,938, 

 were taken in haul seines, the remainder being credited to purse 

 .seines. Among the more important species taken in haul seines 

 ivere alewives, 1,589,037 pounds, valued at $66,825; black bass, 

 533,364 pounds, valued at $60,977; and mullet, 667,065 pounds, 

 Talued at $53,559. The yield by gill nets, which was slightly less in 

 quantity and exceeded in value that of seines, amounted to 5,995,917 



