﻿FISHERIES 
  OF 
  SOUTH 
  ATLANTIC 
  STATES. 
  

  

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  counties 
  and 
  species 
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  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  North 
  Carolina 
  

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  THE 
  YIELD 
  BY 
  DIFFERENT 
  FORMS 
  OF 
  AFPAKATUS. 
  

  

  The 
  product 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  forms 
  of 
  fisheiy 
  apparatus 
  used 
  in 
  North 
  

   Carolina 
  waters 
  in 
  1902 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  detail 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  series 
  of 
  

   tables. 
  As 
  regards 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  product, 
  the 
  gill 
  net 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  

   important 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus, 
  the 
  catch 
  in 
  1902 
  being 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $181,284, 
  of 
  which 
  $218,860 
  represented 
  shad, 
  |81,206 
  mullet, 
  $65,253 
  

   squeteague, 
  121,511: 
  blue-fish, 
  and 
  the 
  remaining 
  $91,451 
  represented 
  

   numerous 
  other 
  species. 
  The 
  use 
  of 
  gill 
  nets 
  has 
  increased 
  in 
  this 
  

   state 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  fifteen 
  years. 
  The 
  value 
  of 
  those 
  used 
  in 
  1890 
  was 
  

   $1.54,582, 
  in 
  1897 
  it 
  was 
  $179,190, 
  and 
  in 
  1902 
  it 
  amounted 
  to 
  $236,855. 
  

   The 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  catch 
  has 
  increased 
  correspondingly, 
  amounting 
  to 
  

   $252,249 
  in 
  1890, 
  $382,034 
  in 
  1897, 
  and 
  $481,284 
  in 
  1902. 
  

  

  The 
  seine 
  ranks 
  second 
  among 
  the 
  forms 
  of 
  apparatus 
  as 
  regards 
  

   the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  catch, 
  this 
  amounting 
  to 
  $454,594 
  in 
  1902, 
  but 
  it 
  

   ranks 
  first 
  with 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  quantity, 
  yielding 
  32,339,889 
  pounds, 
  or 
  

   48 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  total 
  product 
  in 
  the 
  state. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  increase 
  

   over 
  1897, 
  when 
  the 
  seine 
  catch 
  amounted 
  to 
  26,230,347 
  pounds, 
  for 
  

   which 
  the 
  fishermen 
  received 
  $340,055. 
  The 
  principal 
  species 
  caught 
  

   by 
  seines 
  in 
  1902 
  were 
  mullet, 
  $105,197; 
  .shad, 
  $59,605; 
  black 
  bass, 
  

   $55,995; 
  white 
  perch. 
  $42,516; 
  alewives, 
  $35,573; 
  and 
  menhaden, 
  

   $31,420. 
  

  

  The 
  use 
  of 
  pound 
  nets 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina 
  has 
  greatlv 
  increased 
  in 
  

   the 
  last 
  twenty-five 
  years. 
  In 
  1880, 
  117 
  were 
  reported; 
  in 
  1890 
  the 
  

   number 
  was 
  950; 
  in 
  1897 
  it 
  was 
  1,852, 
  and 
  in 
  1902 
  it 
  had 
  risen 
  to 
  2,982. 
  

  

  