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Fisheries of North Carolina, 1936 — Continued 

 CATCH: By COUNTIES— Continued 



SEED OYSTER FISHERY: Bt gear 



Item 



Oyster dredges 



OPEEATING UNITS 



Fishermen, on boats and shore: 



Regular 



Casual-. 



Total. 



Boats, motor 



Apparatus, number. 

 Yards at mouth. 



Oysters, seed, public, spring. 



Number 

 55 

 45 



Bushels 

 55, 600 



Value 

 $11,100 



Note.— Of the persons and gear employed in the seed oyster fishery 38 regular fishermen and 14 motor- 

 boats are duplicated among those in the market oyster fishery or fisheries for other species. The seed oyster 

 fishery in North Carolina is confined to Hyde County. 



