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  REPORT 
  01" 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  that 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  owners 
  will 
  not 
  replant, 
  especially 
  as 
  tlieir 
  business 
  

   has 
  entailed 
  heavy 
  losses 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  present. 
  

  

  In 
  1895 
  the 
  oyster 
  fishery 
  of 
  Pensacola 
  and 
  the 
  adjacent 
  bays 
  gave 
  

   employment 
  to 
  06 
  persons, 
  who 
  used 
  34 
  sailboats 
  and 
  took 
  21,850 
  

   bushels 
  of 
  oysters 
  having 
  a 
  value 
  of 
  $6,910. 
  The 
  oysters 
  are 
  all 
  taken 
  

   by 
  means 
  of 
  tongs. 
  The 
  capital 
  invested 
  in 
  this 
  l)usiness, 
  exclusive 
  of 
  

   the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  oyster 
  beds, 
  was 
  $4,112. 
  

  

  Statistical 
  recapitulation. 
  — 
  The 
  fishing 
  industry 
  centering 
  at 
  Pensa- 
  

   cola 
  had 
  the 
  following 
  extent 
  in 
  1895: 
  Persons 
  employed, 
  535; 
  vessels, 
  

   42, 
  valued 
  at 
  $234,650; 
  boats, 
  99, 
  valued 
  at 
  $0,940; 
  value 
  of 
  apparatus 
  

   of 
  capture, 
  $4,521; 
  value 
  of 
  shore 
  property 
  and 
  cash 
  capital, 
  $112,805; 
  

   total 
  investment, 
  $358,916; 
  pounds 
  of 
  products 
  taken, 
  6,490,889; 
  value 
  

   of 
  the 
  catch, 
  $184,664. 
  

  

  STATISTICS 
  OF 
  THE 
  FLORIDA 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  following 
  series 
  of 
  tables, 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  industry 
  

   of 
  the 
  coastal 
  waters 
  of 
  Florida 
  is 
  shown 
  in 
  detail 
  hy 
  counties. 
  The 
  

   figures 
  relate 
  to 
  the 
  calendar 
  year 
  1895, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  those 
  per- 
  

   taining 
  to 
  the 
  northeast 
  coast, 
  as 
  explained 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  text. 
  

  

  The 
  county 
  tables 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  to 
  differ 
  in 
  some 
  minor 
  respects 
  

   from 
  the 
  figures 
  credited 
  to 
  the 
  principal 
  regions, 
  in 
  the 
  discussion 
  of 
  

   which 
  the 
  object 
  was 
  to 
  show 
  the 
  importance 
  of 
  the 
  fishing 
  centering 
  

   there, 
  without 
  regard 
  to 
  county 
  limits. 
  

  

  Table 
  showing 
  by 
  counties 
  tlie 
  ijersons 
  emploiied 
  in 
  the 
  coast 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Florida. 
  

  

  