REPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



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Statistics of the Oyster Industry op the South Atlantic States, 1910 — Contd. 



FLORIDA (PUBLIC AREAS). i 



GRAND TOTAL. 



Persons employed: 



On vessels fishing 



On vessels transporting. . . 

 Inshore or boat fisheries ... 

 Shoresmen 



Total. 



Wages paid: 



Dredging 



Tonging 



Transporting 



Wholesale trade . 



Total. 



Vessels, boats, apparatus, and 

 other property: 



Vessels fishing 



Net tonnage 



Vessels transporting 



Net tonnage 



Gasoline and steam boats 



Sail and row boats 



Apparatus — vessel fish- 

 eries — 



Dredges 



Tongs 



Apparatus— shore fish- 

 eries — 



Dredges 



Tongs 



Shore and accessory prop- 

 erty 



Cash capital 



Total. 



537 



23 



1,693 



2,088 



4,241 



ISO 



1,810 



8 



86 



21 



1,277 



86 

 462 



31 

 1,378 



$13,949 



284,339 



2,255 



135, 998 



436, 541 



94, 725 

 'ioJ835 



9,300 

 39, 265 



1,507 

 1,354 



470 

 4,607 



134,650 

 267, 150 



563,863 



Planting operations: 



Oyster grounds owned or 



leased acres. . 



Oyster grounds under 



culture acres. 



Grounds planted during 



the year acres. . 



Materials planted during 

 the year — 



Seed oysters, 

 bushels 



Oyster shells, 

 bushels 



Total. 



Expenses connected with 

 planting 



Oysters on private areas 

 at the end of the year, 

 bushels 



Products: 



Vessel fisheries — 

 With dredges- 

 Market oysters, 

 bushels 



With tongs- 

 Market oysters, 



bushels 



Seed oysters, 

 bushels 



Total 760,914 



6, 7S7 

 (2) 



17,500 

 156, 582 



{') 



110,283 



645,631 

 5,000 



$2,405 

 3,770 



6,175 





102, 747 

 750 



1 East coast only. 



2 Statistics not available. 



