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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Fisheries by apparatus . — Tables 63 and 64 exbibit by parishes the quantities and 
values of products taken with each of the principal forms of apparatus employed in 
the vessel and shore fisheries respectively. 
Considering the vessel fisheries, it is seen that seines take the largest quantities 
of fish and yield the greatest money returns, the principal species thus secured being 
channel bass, trout, Spanish mackerel, and croakers. Lines are the only other means 
of capture for fish, and take only two .species — red snapper and grouper. . The aver- 
age value of these fish per pound is much less than the catch of the seines, so that 
the relative difference between the products of the two forms of apparatus is much 
less than the value of the catch. The crustaceans enumerated in the table were also 
taken with seines, and the oysters were obtained with tongs. 
In the shore fisheries, as in the vessel fisheries, seines are the most important 
means of capture, the output in 1890 being about 11,000,000 pounds offish, crustaceans, 
and reptiles, having a value of over $ 230, 000. Buffalo-fish, sheepshead, trout, catfish, 
and Spanish mackerel are the chief fish taken, while shrimp, crabs, terrapins, and 
turtles materially enhance the income of the seine fishermen. Lines are much 
more extensively used than in the vessel fisheries and secure a greater variety offish, 
among which catfish and trout are especially important. The value of the line catch 
is about half that of the fish proper taken with seines. Such minor apparatus as cast 
nets and dip nets are mostly employed by semi-professional fishermen. The aggregate 
catch in 1890 was about 480,000 pounds, chiefly buffalo-fish, catfish, and trout, with a 
value of about $16,000. Tongs used in the oyster fishery and small traps employed 
in the capture of crayfish complete the list of apparatus in the shore fisheries. 
63. — Table showing by parishes and apparatus the yield o f the vessel fisheries of Louisiana in 1889 and 1890 ■ 
Apparatus and species. 
Jefferson. 
Orleans. 
Plaquemines. 
0. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
18£ 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds.' Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
12, 925 
14, 150 
10, 700 
21, 750 
64, 900 
24, 050 
6, 450 
4, 850 
1. 700 
14, 525 
14, 500 
26, 700 
21, 750 
56, 000 
$770 
1,158 
214 
543 
3,245 
2,295 
645 
729 
102 
1,387 
870 
2,670 
1, 710 
3, 380 
13, 050 
18, 050 
12, 250 
22, 650 
56, 450 
26, 800 
7, 025 
5,900 
1,800 
14. 150 
16, 300 
30. 150 
21, 700 
56, 000 
$843 
1,385 
245 
571 
2. 823 
2, 680 
703 
885 
108 
1,340 
978 
3, 015 
1,682 
3, 205 

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1 
294, 950 
19, 730 
302, 275 
20, 463 
Lines : 
18, 500 
250, 400 
185 
7,512 
17, 800 
240, 500 
178 
7, 215 
i 
268, 900 
7, 697 
258, 300 
7, 393 
Miscellaneous : 
202, 881 
$6, 801 
158, 480 
$5, 413 
1, 996, 379 
117, 000 
24, 600 
11, 400 
64, 210 
2, 242 
1,640 
950 
2, 068, 017 
121, 900 
8, 400 
6, 900 
66, 991 
2, 404 
560 
575 
37, 765 
$1, 400 
29, 386 
$1, 035 

Total 
202, 881 
0, 801 
158, 480 
5, 413 
2, 149, 379 
69, 042 
2, 205, 217 
70, 530 
37, 765 
1, 400 
29, 386 
1, 035 
Grand total 
202, 881 
6, 801 
158, 480 
5,413 
2, 614, 329 
93, 672 
2, 683, 492 
96, 053 
37,765 1 1,400 
29, 386 
1,035 
