130 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Cowfish and "shellfish" Ostraciidae fspecies). 



Crevalle Caranx (species). 



Croaker Micropogon undulatus. 



Elops or ten-pounder Flops saurus. 



Flounders Pleuronectidse (species). 



(Epinephelus (species). 

 Mycteroperca (species). 

 Garrupa nigriia. 



Grunts Hsemulidee (species). 



Hogfish Lachnolaimus Tnaximus. 



Jewfish Promicrops guttatus. 



King whiting Menticirrhus (species). 



Leather jacket or "turbot" Batistes carolinensis. 



Menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus. 



Moonfish Vomer setipinms. 



-. ,, ( Mugil cephalus: 



^^"^^'' [Mugil curema. 



Permit Trachinotus goodei. 



Pigfish r Orthopristis chrt/sopterus. 



I Trachinotus cnrolinus. 

 Trachinotus (other species). 

 (See also permit.) 

 _, . f Calamus (species). 



-^^'"Sies jPagnis (species). 



Porkfish Anisotremns rirginicus. 



Redfish or rod drum Sciaenops occllatvs. 



Sailors choice Applied indiscriminately to 



several species. 



Scamp Mycteroperca phenax. 



Sea bass Centropristes striatus. 



Sea gar Tylosurus (species). 



Sergeantfish or snook Centropomus undecimalis. 



Sharks All Selachii except Batoidei. 



Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus. 



Snapper, mangrove Lutianus griseus. 



Snapper, mutton Lutianus analis. 



Snapper, red Lutianus blackfordi. 



Spanish mackerel Scomheromorus maculatus. 



Spot Leiostomus xanthurus. 



iCynosdon regalis. 

 Cynoscion nothus. 

 Cynoscion nchulos^ts. 



Stiu"geon Acipenser stvrio. 



Tang Teuthididse (species). 



Tarpon Tarpon atlnntims. 



Yellowtail Ocyurus chrysurus. 



GENERAL STATISTICS. 



The fisheries of the Gulf States in 1918 gave employment to 14,888 

 persons, of whom 1,731 were on vessels fishing, 297 on vessels trans- 

 porting fishery products, 7,801 in shore fisheries, and 5,059 shores- 

 men in wholesale fish establishments, shrimp and oyster canneries, 

 and other branches of the fishery industries. The west coast of 

 Florida had 5,161 persons employed in its fisheries; Alabama, 783; 

 Mississippi, 2,867; Louisiana, 4,191; and Texas, 1,886. Compared 

 with the retm-ns for 1902, the year for which the last canvass was 

 made by the Bureau, there has been a decrease in the number of 

 persons employed in all of the States except Texas, the total decrease 

 t3eing 3,141, or 17.42 per cent. The largest decrease was 1,477, or 

 34 per cent, in Mississippi. The increase in Texas was 742 persons, 

 or 64.86 per cent. In this connection it will be recalled that during 



