FISHERIES OF THE GULF STATES. 
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50. — Table showing by apparatus and species the yield of the shore fisheries of Mississippi in 1889 
and 1890 — Continued. 
Apparatus and species. 
Hancock. 
Total for State. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
V alue . 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
23, 500 
90, 300 
49, 400 
107. 600 
83. 950 
175, 000 
49, 150 
67, 100 
340, 675 
49, 000 
14, 025 
24, 500 
152, 200 
43, 575 
45, 075 
291, 500 
$774 
4, 515 
2,048 
1,076 
1,597 
7,792 
1,113 
2, 604 
3, 433 
1,471 
1,544 
1, 151 
6, 722 
2, 956 
1,352 
13, 306 
29, 850 
95, 900 
48, 800 
121, 700 
88, 600 
190, 800 
52, 025 
73, 050 
265, 400 
49, 300 
14, 875 
23, 660 
168, 800 
46, 500 
45, 885 
285, 000 
$1, 019 
4, 595 
1, 952 
1, 217 
1, 698 
8, 232 
1. 200 
2, 922 
2, 679 
1,475 
1, 637 
1,065 
7,660 
3,150 
1, 375 
13, 211 
22, 000 
23, 200 
$1, 100 
928 
21, 200 
22, 500 
$860 
900 
Bream and sunfisli 
24, 500 
43, 000 
490 
1,722 
25, 100 
43, 900 
502 
1,756 
21, 500 
63, 200 
11,800 
6, 150 
13, 200 
23, 500 
14, 600 
14, 100 
34, 000 
860 
632 
354 
615 
466 
940 
876 
423 
1,700 
23, 800 
67, 700 
10, 800 
6, 600 
13, 800 
28, 900 
15, 100 
13, 400 
34, 400 
952 
677 
324 
660 
414 
1, 156 
906 
402 
1, 720 
Piniisli 
314, 750 
11, 106 
327, 200 
11, 229 
1, 606, 550 
53, 454 
1, 599, 645 
55, 087 
Trammel nets and gill nets : 
5, 200 
35, 800 
9, 700 
4, 800 
2, 500 
3,000 
89, 575 
12, 300 
5, 700 
3, 500 
78, 950 
200 
1,474 
485 
240 
125 
150 
1,196 
492 
114 
175 
3, 857 
6, 000 
40, 300 
10, 500 
5, 300 
3, 200 
3, 500 
40, 000 
14, 750 
5. 900 
4, 200 
87, 100 
300 
1, 057 
525 
265 
160 
175 
800 
590 
118 
210 
4, 385 
Total 
251, 025 
8, 568 
220, 750 
9, 185 
Cast nets : 
20, 000 
4,500 
200 
90 
Lines : 
4, 800 
96 
Miscellaneous : 
6, 900 
12, 000 
35, 100 
787, 234 
173 
400 
702 
21, 783 
9, 800 
5, 900 
32, 000 
845, 551 
490 
221 
640 
23, 279 
48, 000 
19, 200 
342, 400 
*3, 458, 658 
1, 307 
640 
7, 698 
110, 154 
14, 600 
32, 560 
474, 900 
t2, 884, 623 
730 
1, 307 
9, 998 
97, 062 
841, 234 
23, 058 
893, 251 
24, 630 
3, 868, 258 
119, 799 
3, 406, 683 
109, 097 
Grand total 
1, 155, 984 
34, 164 
1, 220, 451 
35, 859 
5, 750, 333 
182,111 5,231,878 
173, 465 
* 494,094 bushels. 1 412,089 bushels. 
The shore industries . — Perhaps no single factor has been so potent in bringing 
about the recent noteworthy increase in the fisheries of this State as the establishment 
of extensive canning and packing houses for the utilization of large quantities of raw 
products that would not otherwise find a market. 
Chief among the shore industries is the oyster-canning business, which is prose- 
cuted in every county, but is especial ly important in Harrison County. The canning 
of shrimps, which is mostly engaged in at oyster-canning establishments, is also 
extensive. The extent of the canning business in 1889 and 1890 is shown in the fol- 
lowing table, in which the counties are combined to prevent the exhibition of private 
interests. Although the number of firms engaged in the canning of fishery products 
is small, the number of persons employed, the capital invested, and the value of the 
raw and manufactured products are important. In connection with the canning of 
oysters, there is a small trade in raw oysters carried on; in 1889 5,600 gallons and in 
1890 1,200 gallons of oysters were opened, the value of which has been included with 
that of the manufactured products in the table. 
