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EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



272 Japanese and a decrease of 14 Hawaiians. The other nationalties 

 show small increases, but they occupy an insignificant proportion of 

 the total, which, in 1903, was 827, as compared with 549 in 1900, a 

 gain of 278. 



The total investment in boats, apparatus, fish ponds, and shore and 

 accessory property in 1903 was $37,912. As compared with 1900 

 there is a very material gain in the number of boats owned and the 

 number of seines, bag nets, and cast nets operated, while the value of 

 the lines used is more than doubled. There is a very material decrease, 

 however, in the number of gill nets in use, and one less fish pond was 

 operated. 



The total catch was 1,404,794 pounds, valued at $101,149. The line 

 fisheries furnished more than four-fifths of this. Gill nets, seines, 

 cast nets, spears, dip nets, hands, baskets, bag nets, and snares follow 

 in the order named. The akule is the principal species taken in the 

 Hawaii fisheries, over one-third of the total catch being composed of 

 this species alone. The other important species are aku, ulua, moano, 

 kawakawa, oio, opelu, and puhi. 



The following tables show the extent of the fisheries in 1903: 



Table showing by nationalities the persons engaged in (he fisheries of Hawaii in 1903. 



Table showing the boats, apparatus, fish ponds, and properly used in the fisheries of Hawaii 



in 1903. 



Item. 



Boats 



Apparatus: 



Seines ... 



Gill nets. 



Bag nets . 



Cast nets 



Dip nets . 



Lines 



Num- 

 ber. 



260 



(122 

 biS, 



22 

 124 



22 



a 1,153 yards. 



Value. 



$18, 970 



4,850 



1,460 



715 



620 



110 



1,226 



Item. 



Apparatus — (continued) : 



Baskets (opai) 



Spears 



Snares 



Fish ponds 



Shore and accessory property. 



Total 



Num- 

 ber. 



b 2, 198 yards. 



Value. 



$21 



95 



3 



1,500 



8,342 



37, 912 



