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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  others, 
  considerably 
  curtailed 
  the 
  fish 
  trade 
  of 
  that 
  place 
  for 
  several 
  

   months. 
  

  

  Shad 
  have 
  been 
  reported 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  times 
  from 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  

   Florida, 
  and 
  an 
  occasional 
  specimen 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  by 
  scientists. 
  A 
  

   Pensacola 
  fisherman, 
  who 
  claimed 
  to 
  have 
  caught 
  12 
  or 
  15 
  shad 
  in 
  a 
  

   seine 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  February, 
  1900, 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  1903 
  shipped 
  

   to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Fisheries 
  two 
  specimens 
  which 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  Ala- 
  

   bama 
  shad 
  {Alosa 
  alahamsi). 
  It 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  more 
  

   abundant 
  than 
  is 
  generally 
  supposed, 
  as 
  but 
  little 
  netting 
  has 
  been 
  

   done 
  in 
  the 
  rivers 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  until 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   years. 
  

  

  The 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Florida 
  leads 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  Gulf 
  States 
  in 
  the 
  

   catch 
  of 
  blue-fish, 
  mullet, 
  pompano, 
  red 
  snapper, 
  grouper, 
  Spanish 
  

   mackerel, 
  turtle, 
  and 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  less 
  important 
  species. 
  The 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  tables 
  present 
  in 
  condensed 
  form 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  fisheries 
  in 
  1902: 
  

  

  Persons 
  employed. 
  

  

  Table 
  of 
  apparatus 
  and 
  capital. 
  

  

  