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EEPOKT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



Table showing by islands, apparatus, and species the yield of the pond fisheries of the 



Hawaiian Islands in 1903. 



THE FISHERIES CONSIDERED BY ISLANDS. 



During the year 1903 commercial fishing was prosecuted from the 

 islands of Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, 

 and Oahu. This list shows an addition since 1900, for no commercial 

 fishing was done by the few inhabitants of Kahoolawe at that time. 

 The fishermen from these islands also frequent some of the smaller 

 islands of the group, which are uninhabited the greater part of the 

 year. In 1904 Mr. Max Schlemmer, of Honolulu, who is in charge 

 of the guano work on Laysan Island, made an offer to the territorial 

 government to lease Necker and Gardiner islands for a term of twenty- 

 one years at a yearl}^ rental of $25. It is his intention to engage in 

 fishing from these islands during the rainy season (the equivalent of 

 winter in the temperate region), when the guano work is not being 



