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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



THE BULK OF THE FISHING NEAR THE LARGER CITIES. The fisheries are confined chiefly to 

 the vicinity of the larger settlements. A description of the fisheries of the principal cities, includ- 

 ing Georgetown, Charleston, and Beaufort, in South Carolina, and Savannah and Brunswick, in 

 Georgia, will therefore include everything of importance connected with the fisheries of both 

 States. 



B. THE FISHERIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



180. STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION. 



South Carolina comes twentieth in the list of fish-producing States, with 1,005 fisJiermeu and 

 products valued at $212,482. This State is, however, noted for its shrimp fisheries, which are more 

 extensive than those of any other State, and nearly equal to those of all other States combined. 

 In 1880 the fishermen secured 18,000 bushels, valued at $37,500. The principal sea fisheries are 

 about Charleston, where several hundred negroes, with an occasional Spaniard, are engaged in fishing 

 with hand-lines from vessels and small boats to supply the city with whiting, blackfish, and other 

 species. A limited fishery occurs in the sounds about Beaufort, from which point a few fish are 

 shipped to the interior cities. Beyond the places mentioned no sea fishing of importance occurs, 

 though there is more or less fishing for local supply along all portions of the coast. About 

 400,000 pounds of alewives, 207,600 pounds of shad, and 201,250 pounds of sturgeon, with consid- 

 erable quantities of other species, were taken by the river fishermen, the largest fisheries being on 

 the Edisto River and in the tributaries of Winyah Bay. 



The extent of the commercial fishery interests of the State are fully shown in the annexed 

 statements : 



Summary statement of persons employed. 



Detailed statement of capital invested anil apparatus employed. 



