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  REPOET 
  OF 
  COMMISSIO'NER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  THE 
  PRODUCTS 
  BY 
  APPARATUS. 
  

  

  Vessel 
  fislierles. 
  — 
  The 
  vessel 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Georgia 
  are 
  prosecuted 
  

   chiefly 
  in 
  Chatham 
  County, 
  but 
  also 
  to 
  a 
  limited 
  extent 
  in 
  Glj'nn 
  and 
  

   Mcintosh 
  counties. 
  The 
  vessels 
  are 
  all 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  oyster 
  fishery, 
  

   and 
  the 
  principal 
  forms 
  of 
  apparatus 
  emploj^ed 
  are 
  oyster 
  tongs 
  and 
  

   grabs. 
  Lines 
  are 
  used 
  in 
  taking 
  red 
  snapper, 
  groupers, 
  and 
  sea 
  bass, 
  

   and 
  seines 
  in 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  terrapin. 
  The 
  number 
  of 
  vessels 
  has 
  

   increased 
  since 
  1897 
  from 
  51, 
  valued 
  at 
  ^21,425, 
  to 
  105, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $52,950; 
  and 
  the 
  catch 
  from 
  2,081,870 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $32,577, 
  to 
  

   6,489,600 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $147,887. 
  The 
  catch 
  in 
  1897 
  consisted 
  

   wholly 
  of 
  oysters, 
  but 
  in 
  1902 
  it 
  included 
  6,240,500 
  pounds, 
  or 
  891,500 
  

   bushels, 
  of 
  oysters, 
  valued 
  at 
  $132,647, 
  248,000 
  pounds 
  of 
  red 
  snapper, 
  

   groupers, 
  and 
  sea 
  bass, 
  valued 
  at 
  $14,800, 
  and 
  1,100 
  pounds 
  of 
  terrapin, 
  

   valued 
  at 
  $400. 
  

  

  Slwre 
  fisheries. 
  — 
  The 
  apparatus 
  employed 
  in 
  the 
  shore 
  fisheries 
  con- 
  

   sisted 
  of 
  pound 
  nets, 
  gill 
  nets, 
  cast 
  nets, 
  seines, 
  lines, 
  oyster 
  tongs 
  

   and 
  grabs, 
  clam 
  tongs 
  and 
  hoes. 
  The 
  catch 
  aggregated 
  4,613,010 
  

   pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $211,194. 
  

  

  The 
  catch 
  taken 
  with 
  03'ster 
  tongs 
  and 
  grains 
  amounted 
  to 
  332,500 
  

   bushels 
  of 
  oysters, 
  valued 
  at 
  $87,820. 
  Gill 
  nets 
  were 
  next 
  in 
  impor- 
  

   tance, 
  the 
  yield 
  being 
  1,075,325 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $77,164. 
  The 
  

   species 
  secured 
  in 
  largest 
  quantities 
  in 
  gill 
  nets 
  were 
  shad, 
  1,029,050 
  

   pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $75,189, 
  and 
  squeteague, 
  28,750 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $1,437. 
  The 
  catch 
  with 
  lines 
  was 
  622,525 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $21,388, 
  

   consisting 
  chiefly 
  of 
  cat-fish, 
  crabs, 
  carp, 
  sheepshead, 
  squeteague, 
  

   whiting, 
  croaker, 
  and 
  channel 
  bass; 
  with 
  seines, 
  404,435 
  pounds 
  of 
  

   various 
  species, 
  valued 
  at 
  $19,640; 
  with 
  cast 
  nets, 
  126,800 
  pounds, 
  

   valued 
  at 
  $3,339; 
  with 
  pound 
  nets, 
  46,425 
  pounds, 
  valued 
  at 
  $1,018; 
  

   and 
  with 
  clam 
  tongs 
  and 
  rakes, 
  10,000 
  pounds, 
  or 
  1,250 
  bushels 
  of 
  

   hard 
  clams, 
  valued 
  at 
  $825. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  tables 
  show 
  the 
  quantit}' 
  and 
  value 
  of 
  products 
  taken 
  

   with 
  each 
  fonn 
  of 
  apparatus 
  in 
  the 
  vessel 
  and 
  shore 
  fisheries 
  of 
  

   Georgia 
  in 
  1902: 
  

  

  Tabic 
  shoiving, 
  by 
  counties, 
  the 
  yield 
  of 
  the 
  vessel 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Georgia 
  in 
  li)02. 
  

  

  