SHAD FISHERIES OF THE ATLANTIC COAST. 



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Statement of apparatus, etc., employed in the shad fisheries of Soxiih Carolina — Cont'd. 



a Cast nets. 



6 "Wheel and fall traps. 



Statement of the yield of shad in each form of apparatus employed in the fisheries of 



South Carolina in 1896. 



a Cast nets. 6 Wheels and fall traps. 



COMBAHEE AND ASHEPOO RIVERS. 



The small shad fisheries operated from the South Carolina side of 

 Savannah Kiver have been described in the chapter on the fisheries 

 of Georgia. 



Between the Savannah and Edisto rivers there are several small 

 streams, of which only two are entitled to extended notice in connection 

 with the shad fisheries — the Combahee or Salkiehatchie and the 

 Ashepoo. The former rises in Aiken County and is navigable for rafts 

 and light flatboats from the sea to Tobys Creek, near Barnwell, a 

 distance of 110 miles. The second of these streams, the Ashepoo, is 

 situated entirely within Colleton County and has a length of about 60 

 miles. It was formerly navigable for rafts as far as Walterboro, 

 but the exhaustion of the turpentine forests and the completion of 

 the railroad have reduced navigation to a minimum, resulting in the 

 channel being badly obstructed by brush and driftwood. 



