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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  THE 
  CANNING 
  INDUSTRY. 
  

  

  The 
  canning 
  industry 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  extensive 
  

   than 
  it 
  was 
  in 
  1897, 
  when 
  there 
  were 
  only 
  3 
  canneries, 
  valued 
  at 
  $1,700. 
  

   The 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  employed 
  was 
  133, 
  and 
  the 
  output 
  was 
  valued 
  

   at 
  121,136. 
  In 
  1902 
  there 
  were 
  9 
  canneries 
  in 
  operation, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $50,300. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  persons 
  employed 
  was 
  1,477, 
  and 
  the 
  prod- 
  

   ucts 
  prepared, 
  consisting 
  of 
  canned 
  oysters, 
  clams, 
  clam 
  juice, 
  shrimp, 
  

   and 
  mullet, 
  and 
  salted 
  mullet 
  and 
  mullet 
  roe, 
  were 
  valued 
  at 
  $371,086. 
  

  

  Table 
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  the 
  exloit 
  of 
  tlie 
  canning 
  indu^trii, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  salting 
  of 
  ntallet 
  and 
  mullet 
  

   roe 
  in 
  South 
  Carolina 
  in- 
  1902. 
  

  

  FISHERIES 
  OF 
  GEORGIA. 
  

  

  The 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Georgia 
  in 
  1902 
  gave 
  employment 
  to 
  2,286 
  persons, 
  

   of 
  whom 
  418 
  were 
  on 
  fishing 
  vessels, 
  1,256 
  on 
  boats 
  in 
  the 
  shore 
  fish- 
  

   eries, 
  and 
  612 
  were 
  shoresmen 
  in 
  the 
  wholesale 
  iishery 
  trade 
  and 
  

   oyster-canning 
  industry. 
  

  

  The 
  investment 
  in 
  the 
  fisheries 
  amounted 
  to 
  $342,150. 
  The 
  number 
  

   of 
  vessels 
  engaged 
  was 
  105, 
  valued 
  at 
  $52,950; 
  their 
  net 
  tonnage 
  was 
  

   1,340 
  tons, 
  and 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  their 
  outfit 
  was 
  $26,035. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  

   boats 
  in 
  the 
  shore 
  fisheries 
  was 
  736, 
  valued 
  at 
  $21,574, 
  The 
  fishing 
  

   apparatus 
  used 
  on 
  vessels 
  and 
  boats 
  was 
  valued 
  at 
  $21,679, 
  and 
  the 
  

   shore 
  and 
  accessory 
  property 
  at 
  $86,912. 
  The 
  cash 
  capital 
  utilized 
  was 
  

   $133,000. 
  

  

  The 
  products 
  amounted 
  to 
  11,102,610 
  pounds, 
  having 
  a 
  value 
  to 
  the 
  

   fishermen 
  of 
  $359,081. 
  The 
  species 
  secured 
  in 
  largest 
  quantities 
  were 
  

   oysters, 
  1,224,000 
  bushels, 
  $220,467; 
  shad, 
  1,029,050 
  pounds, 
  $75,189; 
  

   shrimp 
  and 
  prawn, 
  341,127 
  pounds, 
  $8,408; 
  cat-fish, 
  288,550 
  pounds, 
  

   $6,838; 
  mullet, 
  125,800 
  pounds, 
  $2,576, 
  and 
  red 
  snappers, 
  125,000 
  

   pounds, 
  $7,500. 
  

  

  Compared 
  with 
  1897 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  this 
  state 
  in 
  1902 
  showed 
  an 
  

   increase 
  of 
  417 
  in 
  persons 
  emploj'ed, 
  $57,286 
  in 
  capital 
  invested, 
  and 
  

  

  