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624 HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 
There was but a single camp for sturgeon fishing on the Edisto during the season of 1880. 
The fish taken here are shipped to Charleston by schooner, where they are packed in ice and sent 
to New York by steamer. The nets do not differ in any respect from those employed all along 
the Atlantic coast in the same fishery. The number of fish taken to the net was 125. 
The statistics of the fisheries of the Edisto for 1880 are given in the following summary: 
Number of men employed ...--. 2... cece cnc ees cece ns nee cence es cee ene ences cece cecces 156 
Amount of capital employed. .... 2.220. cc 222s cone cece cece ne tere ee ne tees none wees cone neon $3, 610 
Product of the fisheries: - 
Shad ..... ai BeidiSiadisce ws wis elsieis o ala Gale ayers a Sisto ictoislaie inl aub'Sice watelciojecuveecweiste ee pounds.. 90,000 
Sturgeon. ... 2. cee eee peewee cece ee ce wees nee eee cane cone cane sees eeee Sig cyassieisintele do.... 37,250 
MixGd fish? ioc: ec ccccccccssscascares jnacee tcilerwiaciccs rete ce cise same aemeit wine \siseis do.... 125,000 
Value of the product...... .ccece ceccen coc cer cone cece cece noes cece cone cece caee cece veenes $12, 285 
9. THE SANTEE RIVER. = 
The Santee River has no organized fisheries for shad or alewives. While undoubtedly a con- 
siderable number of fish must be taken in so large a river, with its numerous tributaries draining 
so extensive and diversified a section of country, yet the information that was obtained was so 
indefinite as not to warrant the expenditure of the time which would have been necessarily con- 
sumed in arriving at an approximation of the products of this river. 
Shad in considerable numbers were formerly taken at Columbia, situated at the junction of the 
Saluda and the Broad. Indeed, in the early history of the country important shad fisheries existed 
on the main tributaries of the rivers as far up as 150 or 200 miles above Columbia. At the present 
time only stragglers occasionally ascend the river as high as the dam, just above Columbia. It is 
probable that productive fisheries, both for shad and sturgeon, could be established at the mouth 
of the Santee River were it not for the fact that the markets are so inaccessible as to have deterred 
private enterprise from attempting to develop them. 
10. THE PEDEE, SAMPIT, BLACK, AND WACOAMA RIVERS. 
All these rivers are tributaries of Winyah Bay, and their product of fish is included under the 
statistics of Winyah Bay and its tributaries. The only fisheries prosecuted are for shad, chiefly in 
the Waccama River, and for sturgeon in that river and in Winyah Bay. The product of these 
fisheries is concentrated at Georgetown, because the tri-weekly steamer from that point to Charles- 
ton furnishes the only means of transportation to market. 
Fishing for shad gives employment to about sixty men, including those engaged in supplying 
the local demand for fish, the catch of which is only estimated, as no definite imformation in regard 
_to the quantities taken could be gained. 
The sturgeon fisheries of Winyah Bay are extensive and valuable, and are prosecuted chiefly 
by professional fishermen from the Delaware, who, later in the season, pursue the same avocation 
ov that river. On March 11, 1880, when these fisheries were visited by the agent of the U.S. Fish 
Commission, two parties or camps were engaged ip the sturgeon fishery on this bay. 
The fishing outfit for each “camp” consisted of huts for the men, a long scow with a cabin at 
each end, one of them being used as quarters by a portion of the men; the other, devoted to the 
preparation of the caviare for market. The middle portion is decked over and used as a platform 
for slaughtering and dressing the sturgeon for market. A scow was used for carrying away the 
offal, and a 15-ton schooner transported the dressed fish from the “camps” to Georgetown. There 
