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  REPOET 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  The 
  principal 
  items 
  in 
  this 
  lishery 
  in 
  the 
  3ear 
  under 
  consideration 
  

   were 
  shad, 
  $93,185; 
  alewives, 
  ^77,845; 
  striped 
  bass, 
  $67,380, 
  and 
  sque- 
  

   teague, 
  $54,954. 
  The 
  total 
  catch 
  was 
  14,446,672 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $371,874, 
  and 
  in 
  1897 
  it 
  was 
  14,080,660 
  pounds, 
  for 
  which 
  $238,798 
  

   was 
  received. 
  These 
  nets 
  are 
  set 
  principally 
  in 
  Dare, 
  Chowan, 
  Beau- 
  

   fort, 
  Washington, 
  Perquimans, 
  Pamlico, 
  Bertie, 
  and 
  Tyrrell 
  counties. 
  

  

  Dredges, 
  rakes, 
  tongs, 
  etc., 
  yielded 
  $356,005 
  worth 
  of 
  products 
  in 
  

   North 
  Carolina 
  in 
  1902, 
  the 
  returns 
  from 
  1,022,813 
  bushels 
  of 
  oysters, 
  

   146,897 
  bushels 
  of 
  quahogs 
  or 
  hard 
  clams, 
  and 
  2,170 
  bushels 
  of 
  scallops. 
  

   The 
  principal 
  counties 
  in 
  which 
  these 
  were 
  taken 
  are 
  Carteret, 
  Plyde, 
  

   Beaufort, 
  Onslow, 
  Dare, 
  Brunswick, 
  and 
  Pamlico. 
  

  

  The 
  remaining 
  forms 
  of 
  apparatus 
  used 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  Avith 
  the 
  

   respective 
  values 
  of 
  their 
  product 
  in 
  1902, 
  were: 
  Lines, 
  $23,883; 
  bow 
  

   nets, 
  dip 
  nets, 
  etc., 
  $20,951; 
  eelpots, 
  $17,640; 
  wheels 
  and 
  slides, 
  $3,372, 
  

   fyke 
  nets, 
  $2,783, 
  and 
  miscellaneous 
  forms, 
  $7,275. 
  

  

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  sJtoiving, 
  hy 
  counties 
  ami 
  species, 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  the 
  seine 
  fis]ieries 
  of 
  Xorth 
  Carolina 
  

  

  in 
  1902. 
  

  

  