164 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Table showing hi/ counties the x-essels, boats, and apparatus employed in the iisheries of 



Texas in 1897. 



SUMMARY. 



Items. 



Vessels fishing 



Tonnage 



Outfit 



Boats 



Apparatus — vessel fisheries : 



Seines 



Turtle nets 



Lines 



Tongs and rakes 



No. 



45 

 508. 81 



686 



$36, 565 



15, 119 



77,911 



2,762 

 115 

 148 

 255 



Apparatus — shore fisheries : 



Seines 



Turtle nets 



Cast nets 



Minor nets 



Lines 



Spears 



Tongs and rakes 



Shore and accessory property . 

 Cash capital 



Total 



No. 



147 



204 



158 



60 



285 



Value. 



$15, 517 



1,254 



542 



20 



393 



52 



1,688 



55, 155 



30, 000 



237, 496 



