150 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Some little attentiou is ^iven to soft crabs in tbe vicinity of New 

 Orleans, but this is confined principally to searching for them in the 

 shoal water. On account of the higii price at which they sell during the 

 winter and early spring it seems probable that a profitable business 

 could be built up in obtaining soft crabs after the manner practiced in 

 Maryland and North Carolina. 



The minor fisheries of Louisiana are of very little consequence and 

 scarcely rank as industries. In the various localities a few hand lines, 

 dip nets, crawfish pots, and the like are used at odd times and the 

 surplus above home wants is sold in the vicinity. The total extent of 

 these fisheries as well as of those mentioned before is presented in the 

 following series of tables, showing the number of persons engaged, the 

 boats, apparatus, etc., employed, and the quantity and value of the 

 products of the fisheries of Louisiana in 1897. 



Persons employed. 



Table of apparatus and capital. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Vessels transporting 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats fishing 



Boats transporting 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries : 



Seines 



Tongs 



No. 



31 



198. 57 



30 

 197. 23 



3,008 



17 



Value. 



$15, 006 



3,945 

 17, 095 



5,600 



191, 114 



6,490 



55 

 384 



Items. 



Apparatus — shore fisheries : 



Seines 



Fyke nets 



Minor apparatus 



Lines 



Tougs 



Shore and. accessory prop- 

 erty 



Cash capital 



Total. 



No. 



135 



188 



1,563 



Value. 



$12, 156 



940 



2,539 



7.971 



7,615 



173, 903 

 69, 000 



513, 813 



Table of products. 



Species. 



Black bass 



Blue-fish 



Buflalo-flsh 



Cat-fish 



Channel bass or red-fish 



Crevalle 



Croakers 



Drum, fresh-water 



Drum, salt-water 



Flounders 



Hog-fish 



MuUet 



Perch 



Pompano 



Sheepshead 



Shoemaker 



Species. 



Silver perch 



Spanish mackerel 



Striped bass 



Sun-fishes 



Trout 



other fish 



Oyster.s 



Shrimp 



Crabs 



Craw-fish 



Terrapin 



Turtle 



Alligator hides — 



Total 



Lbs. 



3, 015 



55, 805 



22, 880 



119,780 



566, 648 



66, 550 



'6,714,330 



4, 486, 726 



= 1,458,833 



84, 950 



41, 680 



22, 395 



(■*) 



17, 401, 788 



" Represents 383,676 barrels or 959,190 bushels. 

 ' Represents 4,376,500 in number. ^ Represents 41,092 in number. 



Value. 



5, 132 

 1,449 

 3,789 



26, 500 



3,583 



432, 668 



80, 576 



12, 891 



3,113 



4,149 



581 



22, 096 



713, 587 



