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valued at $332,812. Other leading forms of apparatus, in the order 

 of their importance, based on the value of their catch, were: Otter 

 trawls with 8,967,918 pounds, principally shrimp, valued at $208,651 ; 

 haul seines with 5,699,060 pounds, valued at $254,635; and lines 

 with 2,914,917 pounds, valued at $192,880. 



The total yield of all forms of apparatus employed in the fisheries 

 of the east coast of Florida amounted to 81,211,488 pounds, valued 

 at 81.746,175, of which 63.04 per cent of the quantity and 18.03 per 

 cent of the value arc credited to purse seines operated in the vessel 

 fisheries, the remainder being credited to the various forms of appa- 

 ratus employed in the shore fisheries. 



The products of the vessel and shore fisheries of the east coast of 

 Florida in 1918 are shown in the following tables, by counties, appa- 

 ratus, and species: 



Yield of Vessel Fisheries of East Coast of Florida in 1918, by Purse Seines, 



Counties, and Species. 



Yield of Shore Fisheries of the East Coast of Florida in 1918, by Appara- 

 tus, Counties, and Species. 



by seines. 



