158 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Table showing the yield of the shore finheries of Louisiana in 1897 — Continued. 



STJMMART. 



Apparatus and species. 



Seines : 



Black bass 



Blue-fish 



Buffalo-fish 



Cat-fish 



Channel bass or red-fish 



Crevalle 



Croakers 



Drum, salt-water 



Flounders 



Hog-fish 



Mullet 



Perch 



Pom pane 



Sheepshead 



Shoemaker 



Silver perch 



Spanish mackerel 



Striped bass 



Sun-fishes 



Trout 



Other fish 



Shrimp 



Terrapins 



Turtles 



Total 



Fyke nets : 



Buflalo-fish 



Cat-fish 



Drum, fresh-water 



Total 



Tongs : 

 Oysters 



Lbs. 



320 

 3,960 



147, 200 

 144, 900 

 454, 930 



18, 000 



267, 480 



18, 570 



9,625 



125 



148, 969 

 5,600 



17, 665 



213, 880 



9,600 



3,015 



50, 505 



16, 780 



69, 780 



494, 723 



43, 500 



4, 400, 826 



1,211 



125 



6, 541, 289 



148, 273 

 10, 870 

 7,250 



166, 393 



6, 391, 455 



Value. 



$26 



132 



2,847 



3,700 



20, 254 



690 



13, 959 



540 



654 



5 



5,261 



338 



1,891 



10, 976 



346 



128 



4,575 



1,049 



2,355 I 



22, 086 



2, 266 



78, 756 



117 



4 



172, 955 



1,583 



254 



74 



1,911 



415, 542 



Apparatus and species. 



Minor apparatus : 



Buftalo-flsh 



Cat-fish 



Channel bass or red-fish. 



Croakers 



Mullet 



Striped bass 



Sun-fishes 



Trout 



Other fish 



Shrimp , 



Crabs 



Craw-fish 



Terrapins 



Turtles 



Alligator hides 



Total. 



Lines : 



Buflialo-fish 



Cat-fish , 



Channel bass or red-fish. 



(Jroakers 



Mullet 



Perch 



Sheepshead 



Spanish mackerel 



Striped bass 



Sun-fishes 



Trout 



Other fish 



Crabs 



Total. 



Grand total 



Lbs. 



11, 000 



32, 300 



4,000 



2,000 



14, 500 



2,000 



7,320 



7,700 



9,550 



84, 100 



494, 133 



84, 950 



40, 469 



22, 270 



816, 592 



4,620 



1, 965, 064 



120 



59, 115 



2,200 



5,450 



23,010 



5, 300 



4,100 



42, 680 



60, 165 



13, 500 



964, 400 



3, 149, 724 



17, 065, 453 



Value. 



$220 



784 



20 



100 



514 



100 



401 



480 



519 



1,784 



6,879 



3,113 



4,032 



577 



22, 096 



41, 619 



118 



46, 682 



9 



2,914 



93 



162 



1,485 



557 



300 



1,033 



3, 772 



798 



6,012 



63, 935 



695, 962 



Only about one-third of the fishery i^roducts of Louisiana enter 

 into the wholesale trade, the remaining two-thirds being sold direct 

 from the boats to the retail merchants and consumers. The wholesale 

 oyster trade is centered at Morgan City and Houma. The trade in 

 oysters at New Orleans is more extensive than at Morgan City and 

 Houma combined, but it is almost exclusively retail and very few are 

 shipped from that city. The trade at Morgan City originated about 

 1880 and at Houma in 1889. The business at the latter point fell off 

 on account of depleted beds, but was revived in 1896. Kearly all the 

 oysters received are opened and shipped throughout the West. The 

 extent of the business at each point during 1897 was reduced by the 

 quarantine regulations during October and November. 



The great bulk of the shrimp caught in Louisiana are sold to the 

 Chinese driers in the Barataria section, to the canners in New Orleans, 

 and to the retail trade in New Orleans, only a small proportion being 

 consumed in the fishing settlements. In the Barataria section there 

 are three Chinese camps devoted to drying shrimp, principally for 

 export to the Orient. This industry was begun in 1873 and although 

 badly affected by the storm of 1893, and by serious competition with a 

 similar business in Mexico, yet it is still in fairly prosperous condition. 

 In 1897 these camps received 1,331,736 pounds of fresh shrimps, costing 

 $10,304, which yielded 142,510 jwunds of dried, worth $21,185. They 



