140 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



several other places falls of over 10 feet per mile occur, with, very great 

 velocity of current. In the early part of the present century shad 

 annually migrated in quantities to the headwaters of the Savannah and 

 throughout the Tugaloo, 49 miles in length, and for a distance of 10 

 miles up the Tallulah, an important tributary of that stream, where 

 their farther progress was barred by Tallulah Falls, 384 miles by the 

 river course from the sea. Since 1S4G the dam above Augusta has 

 acted as a barrier to the farther ascent of most of the shad that find 

 their way to that point. The few that pass through the sluices are not 

 sufficiently numerous to warrant commercial fisheries, but they are 

 occasionally taken in apparatus set primarily for other species a dis- 

 tance of 80 or more miles above Augusta. 



THE SHAD FISHERIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The following tables show, by water-courses, the extent of each 

 branch of the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 1896. The unusually 

 large number of persons employed for the small number of shad caught 

 is very noticeable, the average yield per man being less than 100 shad : 



Statement of the number of men employed in the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 1S96. 



Waters. 



Fishermen. 



Drift- 

 net. 



Stake- 

 net. 



Seine. 



Bow- 

 net. 



"Mis- 

 cella- 

 neous. 



Total, 

 exclusive 

 of dupli- 

 cation. 



Savannah River 



Combahee River 



Ashepoo River 



Edisto River 



Cooper River 



Santee River 



Wiuyah Bay and tributaries : 



Winyah Bay and Waccamaw River. 



Pee Dee River 



Lynch River 



Black River 



Sampit Creek 



12 

 159 



24 

 110 



518 

 4 



56 



330 

 50 



130 

 42 



68 



35 

 14 



29 

 265 



27 

 132 



518 

 404 



50 

 130 



42 



Total . 



1,646 



a Cast- net fishermen. b Wbeel and fall-trap fishermen. 



Statement of the apparatus, etc., employed in the shad fisheries of South Carolina in 1896. 



