98 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
$12,000, employing 592 persons, to whom $60,985 were paid in wages 
during the year. The pack amounted to 2,769,168 cans of various 
sizes, valued at $338,843. 
The following table contains statistics of the canning industry for 
South Carolina in 1918: 
OYSTER-CANNING INDUSTRY IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1918. 
Tiem. Number.| Value. Tiem. Number.! Value. 
| 
HistablishMenmtss-*-—)-2ss.545. 9 | $121,925 PRODUCTS—Ccontinued. 
Cashicapitall Sate .cjancnige eco al een ese 12, 000 
Persons engaged.......-....-- OOD Ne ee ee Oysters canned—Continued. | 
Wifes paid co. sacscc clea lecieegaasce 60, 985 5-ounce cans. .....cases..} 250,496 | $154, 028 
——S S DOs 22 6¢eceeee do....| 323,705 117, 235 
PRODUCTS.1 | 6-ounceicans: -e---Goula- 3100 800 
8-ounce cans......-do....} 21,826 7, 690 
Oysters canned: 10-ounce cans.....-do..-.| 29,190 45, 700 
3-ounce cans. ...--- cases. . 2 401 1, 746 
4-ounce cans.....-- Gomer 2 880 1, 822 otal. see hh-2 1 jit e| sateen 338, 843 
DO.2 2 be 25 teece do....| 22,289 9, 822 | 
1 The by-products are included with the statistics for Georgia. 
2 Two dozen cans per case. 
3 Four dozen cans per case. 
FISHERIES OF GEORGIA. 
In 1918 the fisheries of Georgia gave employment to 1,680 persons, 
of whom 188 were on fishing and transporting vessels, 476 in the 
shore fisheries, and 1,016 shoresmen in the wholesale fishery trade and 
oyster and shrimp canning industry. 
The investment amounted to $769,998, which includes 33 fishing 
and transporting vessels, valued at $122,663, with a net tonnage of 
552 tons and outfits valued at $41,866; 412 power and other boats, 
valued at $86,205; fishing apparatus employed on vessels and boats, 
valued at $17,085; shore and accessory property, valued at $429,779; 
and cash capital amounting to $72,400. 
The products amounted to 37,153,953 pounds, valued at $416,043, 
and represent an increase of 26,051,343 pounds in quantity and 
$56,962 in value as compared with 1902. The 5 most important 
products, arranged in the order of their value, are as follows: Shrimp, 
5,793,465 pounds, valued at $173,990; menhaden, 29,484,600 pounds, 
valued at $88,453; oysters, 1,109,822 pounds, or 158,546 bushels, 
valued at $73,913; shad, 100,540 pounds, valued at $26,960; and sea 
bass, 292,615 pounds, valued at $23,765. Compared with 1902, there 
has been an increase in the catch of shrimp of 5,449,338 pounds in 
quantity and $165,582 in value, and an increase in the catch of sea bass 
amounting to 216,115 pounds in quantity and $17,683 in value; a 
decrease in the take of oysters amounting to 7,458,178 pounds, or 
1,065,454 bushels, in quantity, and $146,554 in value; a decrease of 
928,510 pounds in quantity of shad and $48,229 in value; a decrease 
in the catch of mullet amounting to 115,150 pounds in quantity and 
$1,883 in the value; and a decrease in the catch of terrapin amount- 
ing to 31,196 pounds in quantity and $10,682 in value. In 1902 there 
was no fishery for menhaden in the State. 
