900 



U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



ludiistries related to the fisheries of Georgia, 1928 

 TRANSPORTING 



Items 



Number 



Men on transporting vessels 



Transporting vessels: 

 Motor— 



.•> to 10 tons... 

 11 to 20 tons.. 

 41 to 50 tons.. 



Total 



Net tonnage- 



Sail, 5 to 10 tons. 

 Net tonnage. 



Total vessels 



Total net tonnage _ 



18 

 223 



21 

 246 



WHOLESALE FISHERY TRADE 



Items 



Chatham 

 County 



Establishments 



Persons engageil: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners -. 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages 



Glynn 

 County 



13 



19 

 234 



Liberty and 

 Mcintosh 

 Counties 



$38, 710 

 23, 700 



62, 410 



$16, 898 

 63, 550 



$300 

 5,700 



80, 448 



6,000 



Total 



31 



48 

 316 



$55, 908 

 92, 950 



148,858 



PREPARED FISHERY PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS 



' A standard case contains forty-eight 5-ouncc cans of oysters, forty-eight 5-ounce cans in the dry pack, or 

 forty-eight 5Ji-ounce cans in the wet pack of shrimp. 



2 Includes canned dam chowder, canned terrapin meat and terrapin soup, and acidulated scrap and oil 

 from menhaden. 



EAST COAST OF FLORIDA ^ 



Tiic fisheries of the east coast of Florida in 1928 employed 25 per 

 cent of the total number of fishermen and accounted for 26 per cent 

 of the total catch of the South Atlantic section. The fisheries and 

 industries related to the fisheries employed 3,806 persons, which is a 

 deci-ease of less than one-half of 1 per cent as compared wdth the 

 number employed in 1927. Of the total, 3,026 were fishermen, 1 was 

 (m])loyed on a transi)orting vessel, 582 in the wholesale trade, and 

 197 in the prepared-products and by-products industries. 



» See pp. 914-923 for complete statistics for Florida. 



