368 .REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
LOUISIANA. 
The tables for this State include, in addition to the coast fisheries, the 
fishing prosecuted on the Mississippi River below New Orleans, and on 
Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgue. 
Next to Mississippi, the fisheries of Louisiana have had a greater per- 
centage of increase than those of any other Gulf State. The develop- 
ment in the number of vessels and boats employed is especially remark- 
able ; of the former, there were 49 in 1880, and 116 in 1888; while the 
boats have increased from 165 to 2,347. Among the special fisheries, 
the shrimp shows an enormous advance, the catch being about 13 times 
greater than in 1880. The catch of other crustaceans was also very 
much larger than shown by the census. The oyster industry has also 
improved materially, the product being more than double what it was 
in 1880. In the aggregate the output has^ increased from 6,996,000 
pounds to 19,121,056 pounds. 
138. Table of persons engaged. 
How engaged. 
On vessels fishing 
On vessels transporting. . . 
On boats — 
On boats transporting 
On shore, in canneries, etc. 
Total 
1887 . 
1888 . 
310 
290 
27 
29 
2 , 384 
2 , 527 
527 
541 
359 
371 
3 , 607 
3 , 758 
139. Table of apparatus and capital. 
Designation 
1887 . 
Ho. Value. 
No. Value. 
Vessels fishing* 
Outfit — 
Vessels transporting t 
Outfit 
Boats 
Apparatus of capture— vessel fisheries: 
Seines * 
Tongs 
Lines 
Apparatus of capture — shore fisheries: 
Seines 
Cast nets 
Dip nets 
Small traps 
Tongs 
Lines 
Miscellaneous 
Shore property 
Cash capital 
Total 
113 
"H 
‘ 2,216 
18 
269 
127 
536 
4, 108 
4 , 210 
$ 53 , 020 
18 , 871 
8 , 900 
4 , 465 
140, 765 
1,435 
1,833 
53 
11,875 
1,668 
3,010 
1,853 
5 , 252 
6,733 
6, 105 
214 , 429 
152, 140 
633 , 007 
108 
8 
2 , 347 
19 
245 
134 
551 
4 , 255 
4 , 280 
867 
$ 49 , 045 
17 , 739 
6 , 850 
4 , 335 
146 , 444 
1,490 
1,696 
- 27 
12 , 275 
1 , 714 
3 , 782 
1,870 
5,636 
7,527 
6, 250 
234 , 047 
164 , 200 
664 , 927 
Tonnage in 1887, 821.86; in 1888, 779.90. 
t Tonnage in 1887, 71.26; in 1888, 52.56, 
