476 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
Kauai, Lanai, and Hawaii, in the order named. The latter island 
almost dropped out altogether, securing but 218 pounds of «maama, 
worth $54. Amaama is the leading species, 430,115 pounds, worth 
$87,706, having been marketed. Awa is second, with 224,521 pounds, 
which sold for $22,662. The other species—ahdlehdle, carp, gold -tish, 
oopu, and opae—form but an insignificant part of the total cacch. 
As compared with 1900, the catch of ama-ama shows a decrease in 
weight of 55,416 pounds, and $31,496 in value. During the same 
period the catch of awa increased in quantity 380,150 pounds, and 
decreased in value $24,864. The ahdélehdéle catch increased from 200 
pounds, valued. at $30, in 1900, to 7,100 pounds, valued at $373, in 
1903; the catch of carp decreased from 1,500 pounds, valued at $150, 
in 1900, to 400 pounds, valued at $32, in 1903; the gold-fish catch 
increased from 80 pounds, valued at $10, in 1900, to 6,267 pounds, 
ralued at $351, in 1903 (most of this increase was on Maui); the odpu 
catch increased from 492 pounds, valued at $74, in 1900, to 4,600 
pounds, valued at $174, in 1903, and the catch of opae decreased from 
310 pounds, valued at $31, in 1900, to 150 pounds, valued at 523, in 
1903. In 1900, 180 pounds of okGhektihe, valued at $18, were taken, 
but none was sold in 1903. 
The gill net is the leading form of apparatus in use, 322,240 pounds, 
ralued at $54,610, having been taken thus. Dip and scoop nets are 
second, with 246,179 pounds, worth $40,397, and seines third, with 
104,584 pounds, valued at $16,314. Gull nets alone were used on 
Hawaii and Lanai, seines alone on Maui, seines and gill nets on Kauai 
and Molokai, and all forms on Oahu. 
