statistical review of the coast fisheries . 
351 
110 . Table showing by customs districts the number of white and colored persons employed 
in different capacities in the vessel fishery for oysters. 
Customs districts. 
Dredging. 
Tonging. 
Transporting 
and trans- 
planting. 
Total. 
White. 
Colored. 
White. 
Colored. 
White. 
Colored. 
White. 
Colored. 
Total. 
Cherrystone. 
741 
306 
20 
3 
275 
63 
1,036 
372 
1,408 
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6 
92 
12 
92 
18 
110 
Tappahannock 
151 
148 
11 
13 
62 
60 
224 
221 
445 
Y orktown 
9 
8 
217 
244 
148 
76 
374 
328 
702 
Norfolk 
163 
513 
53 
67 
216 
580 
796 
Petersburg h. 
2 
6 
2 
6 
8 
’Richmond 
42 
34 
7 
5 
49 
39 
88 
Total 
901 
462 
455 
819 
637 
283 
1,993 
1,564 
3, 557 
111 . Table showing by customs districts and apparatus of capture the yield of the vessel 
* fishery for oysters '. 
Customs districts. 
Dredges. 
Tongs. 
Total. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Bushels. 
Value. 
Cherrystone 
Alexandria 
408, 344 
$150, 655 
8, 891 
1, 000 
7, 450 
163, 166 
387, 530 
5, 900 
72,611 
$3, 171 
300 
2, 982 
62. 923 
130, 648 
1,310 
24, 721 
417, 235 
1, 000 
143, 891 
177, 866 
387, 530 
5, 900 
72, 611 
$153, 826 
300 
51, 609 
71, 950 
130, 648 
1,310 
24, 721 
Tappahanhock 
Y orktown 
Norfolk 
136, 441 
14, 700 
48, 627 
9, 027 
Petersburgh 
Richmond 
Total 
559, 485 
208, 309 
646, 548 
226, 055 
1, 206, 033 
434, 364 
1 
V.— THE FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 
This geographical division embraces the States of North Carolina, 
South Carolina, and Georgia, and the eastern coast of Florida. The 
coast line, including the rivers canvassed and all the islands and inden- 
tations which support commercial fisheries, is about 5,055 miles long, 
of which the various States had the following quota : North Carolina, 
1,480 miles; South Carolina, 935 miles; Georgia, 1,390 miles; Florida, 
1,250 miles. 
With the exception of North Carolina this section has no indentations 
of large size, and the fisheries, except in the rivers, do not attain great 
importance. The fishery resources of the region are not fully devel- 
oped, and with the advent of new capital and methods, especially in the 
oyster and vessel food-fish fisheries, this section will no doubt take a 
prominent place among the fish-producing regions of the country. 
One special feature of the fisheries of this region is the extent to which 
set or staked gill-nets are employed, the number of this form of ap- 
paratus being about two-thirds of the number used in the entire coast 
fisheries of the country. 
10,539 persons were engaged in the fisheries and fishery industries of 
this section in 1888. Of these only a very small proportion, 401, were 
