356 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
117. Table showing the extent of the menhaden industry of North Carolina. 
Designation. 
Number of factories in operation 
Value of factories 
Amount of cash capital 
Number of shoresmen employed 
Number of fishermen employed 
Number of steam vessels employed 
Net tonnage. 
Value 
Value of outfit 
Number of sailing vessels employed in fishing 
Net tonnage . 
Value 
Value of outfit 
Number of vessels employed as “carryawavs’ 
Net tonnage ~ ... 
Value 
Value of outfit .• 
Number of menhaden handled 
Value to fishermen 
Number of gallons of oil made 
Value as sold 
Number of tons of scrap produced 
Value as sold a 
1887. 
1888. 
8 
6 
$34, 700 
$30, 900 
$26, 100 
$24, 100 
109 
94 
142 
119 
1 
1 
44.15 
44. 15 
$9, 000 
$9, 000 
$2, 000 
$2, 000 
12 
9 
167. 37 
124.79 
$9, 300 
$7, 800 
$10. 075 
$8, 325 
12 
9 
106. 46 
78.71 
$5, 900 
$5, 550 
$600 
$450 
24, 594, 000 
22, 964, 000 
$18, 446 
' $17, 123 
98, 200 
50, 400 
$24, 550 
$13, 6U0 
1, 698 
1,555 
$42, 060 
$38, 875 
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
The coast fisheries only are included in these tables; the inquiry 
prosecuted in the rivers did not generally extend above tide water. For 
this reason there is not a strictly proper basis for comparison with 18S0, 
but the figures are sufficiently similar in their scope to permit deduc- 
tions regarding changes, although it should be borne in mind that the 
information for 1880 covers a wider area than in 1888. 
Comparing the figures of 1880 with those for 1888 there appears to 
have been an increase of 34 per cent, in persons employed and 47 per 
cent, in capital invested, while the value of the catch has fallen olf 23 
per cent., the yield of the fisheries declining from 6,143,250 pounds in 
1880 to 4,180,848 pounds in 1888. 
The shrimp catch has fallen off nearly one- half; the crab product 
has advanced 65 percent. ; the terrapin yield has increased more than 
64 per cent.; there have been less noticeable changes in the output of 
other species. 
118. Table of versons employed. 
How engaged. 
1887. 
1888. 
On fishing vessels 
67 
69 
On transporting vessels 
5 
5 
On boats * 
1, 183 
25 
1,247 
On shore in fish-houses, etc .................................... 
25 
Total „ 
1, 280 
1,346 
* 477 of these, each year, were semi-professionals. 
