FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 



189 



Species. 



SUMMARY. 



Alewives, fresh 



Alewives, salted . . . 



Black bass 



Blu--fiali, fresh 



Blue tish, salted 



Bonito 



Butter-fish 



Cat-fish 



Chanuel bass, fresh 

 Channel bass, salted 



Croakers, fresh 



Croakers, salted 



Drum 



Eels 



Flounders 



Hickory shad 



King-fish 



Meuliaden 



Mullet, fresh 



Mullet, salted 



Perch 



Pig-fish 



Pike 



Pin-fish 



Poinpano 



Porgy 



Sailor's choice 



Scad or round robin 



Sea bass 



Shad 



Species. 



Sheepshead 



Snappers 



.Spanish uiackorel . 



Spots, fre.ih .. 



Spots, salted 



Squeteague, fresh . 

 Squeteague. salted 

 Strawberry bass . . 



Striped bass 



.Sturgeon 



Suckers 



Sun-fish 



Tautog 



TVarmouth bass-.. 



Whiting 



Shrimp 



Crabs, soft 



Crabs, hard 



Terrapins 



Turtles 



Frogs 



Oysters 



Clauis 



Scallops 



Caviar 



Squeteaque sounds 

 Refuse 



Total 



Lbs. 



271, 206 



34, 400 



330, 840 



716, 137 



133, 846 



, 006, 758 



83, 496 



21,725 



845, 123 



371, 025 



135, 230 



88, 210 



14, 125 



6,950 



45. 300 



146,496 



986, 720 



40, 000 



17, 179 



24, 000 



1,800 



,011,726 



937, 808 



118,323 



32, 5U0 



691 



, 862, 200 



64, 234, 257 



Value, 



$9, 243 



860 



18, 017 



9.870 



4,327 



92, 993 



2,226 



806 



58, 035 



13, 525 



3,037 



1,000 



283 



348 



1,133 



5,885 



3.992 



1, 000 



2,815 



1,920 



450 



241, 099 



53, 703 



5,053 



11, 162 



104 



4,828 



1, 316, 017 



VESSEL FISHERIES. 



At the time of the last general canvass of this State (1800) vessel 

 fishing was only prosecuted from two counties, Craven and Carteret. 

 At the present time Beaufort, Carteret, Currituck, Dare, and Pasquo- 

 tank counties have vessel fisheries. 



A change is noted in the vessel fisheries of Carteret County in the 

 establishment of an offshore vessel fishery. At the time of the investi- 

 gation of these fisheries 11 vessels were thus engaged, each having a 

 crew of 5 men and carrying 3 to 8 nets, known as " sink nets," which 

 are 300 to 390 feet long and 5 to G feet deep, and are operated from 

 rowboats, called "pilot boats," the boats being part of the equipment 

 of each vessel. The method employed in fishing with them is as 

 follows: Upon reaching the fishing-grounds in the open ocean each 

 net is sunk to the bottom, where it is buoyed up by means of corks 

 and marked on the surface by fioats. After the last net is sunk a 



