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EEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 



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



GRAND TOTAL— Continued. 



Note. — In North Carolina the revenue to the State and counties, in taxes and license fees, from the oyster 

 industry in 1910 was $3,122, and the cost of administration was $2,433. In South Carolina the revenue to 

 the State and counties from these sources was $5,332; in Georgia, $1,712; and in Florida, $192. 



In the States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico the persons engaged 

 in the oyster industry in 1911 numbered 8,500, and the wages paid 

 amounted to SI, 682,000. The output was 6,226,000 bushels, valued 

 at $1,477,000. The development which the oyster industry of the 

 Gulf States has undergone in recent years has depended chiefly on 

 the mauguration and extension of oyster planting in various sections 

 of Louisiana, whose oyster output, in both quantity and value, is 

 now larger than that of all the remaining States of the region. All 

 the States but Louisiana show a diminished product for 1911 as 

 compared with 1908; but with the more general cultivation which 

 is now projected a very marked increase in the oyster crop of the 

 Gulf States will quickly result. Following are detailed statistics of 

 the industry in the calendar year 1911 : 



Statistics of the Oyster Industry op the Gulf States, 1911. 



FLORIDA.! 



1 West coast only. 



