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FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



$12,000, emplo3"ing 592 persons, to whom $60,985 were paid in wages 

 during the year. The pack amounted to 2,769,168 cans of various 

 sizes, vahied at S338,843. 



The following table contains statistics of the canning industr}^ for 

 SouthCaroUna in 1918: 



Oyster-Canning Industry in South Carolina in 1918. 



1 The by-products are included with the statistics for Georgia, 

 s Two dozen cans per case. 

 8 Four dozen cans per case. 



FISHERIES OF GEORGIA. 



In 1918 the fisheries of Georgia gave employment to 1,680 persons, 

 of whom 188 were on fishing and transporting vessels, 476 in the 

 sliore fisheries, and 1,016 shoresmen in the wholesale fishery trade and 

 oyster and shrimp canning industry. 



The investment amounted to $769,998, which includes 33 fishing 

 and transporting vessels, valued at $122,663, with a net tonnage of 

 552 tons and outfits valued at $41,866; 412 power and other boats, 

 valued at $86,205; fishing apparatus emplo3^ed on vessels and boats, 

 valued at $17,085; shore and accessory property, valued at $429,779; 

 and cash capital amounting to $72,400. 



The products amounted to 37,153,953 pounds, valued at $416,043, 

 and represent an increase of 26,051,343 pounds in quantity and 

 $56,962 in value as compared with 1902. The 5 most important 

 products, arranged in the order of their value, are as follows: Shrimp, 

 5,793,465 pounds, valued at $173,990; menhaden, 29,484,000 pounds, 

 valued at $88,453; ovsters, 1,109,822 pounds, or 158,546 bushels, 

 valued at $73,913; shad, 100,540 pounds, valued at $26,960; and sea 

 bass, 292,015 pounds, valued at $23,765. Compared with 1902, there 

 has been an increase in the catch of shrimp of 5,449,338 pounds in 

 quantity and $165,582 in value, and an increase in the catch of sea bass 

 amounting to 216,115 pounds in quantity and $17,683 in value; a 

 decrease in the take of oysters amounting to 7,458,178 pounds, or 

 1,065,454 bushels, in quantity, and $146,554 in value* a decrease of 

 928,510 pounds in ouantity of shad and $48,229 in value; a decrease 

 in the catch of mullet amounting to 115,150 pounds in quantity and 

 $1,883 in the value; and a decrease in the catch of terrapin amount- 

 ing to 31,196 pounds in quantity and $10,682 in value. In 1902 there 

 was no fishery for menhaden in the State. 



