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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The vessel and shore fisheries . — The number of vessels employed in the fisheries of 
Texas is much less than in any other Gulf State, as shown in Table 2, although in 
1890 the value of the products of the vessel fisheries surpassed that of Alabama. In 
the following table the yield by vessels is given; in 1890 this amounted to 984,100 
pounds, valued at $34,227, consisting chiefly of channel bass, sheepshead, trout, and 
oysters, the first-named species being the most important single product. 
The value of the shore fisheries is about eight times that of the vessel fisheries. 
The most important objects of capture are trout, channel bass, sheepshead, and oys- 
ters, the last being by far the most valuable. 
The men and property devoted to the vessel and shore fisheries ha ve been shown 
separately in previous tables ; the exposition of the extent of each of these branches 
is therefore made complete by the presentation of Tables 74 and 75, which relate to 
the products. Under the caption “Fisheries by apparatus,” certain other data are 
also given for the vessel and shore fisheries. 
74. — Table showing by counties and species the yield of the vessel fisheries of Texas in 1889 and 1890. 
Species. 
Galveston. 
Aransas. 
Nueces. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
V alue. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. | Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
1, 500 
1, 200 
71, 000 
3, 600 
9, 600 
3, 900 
660 
1,200 
960 
$48 
42 
2, 698 
126 
288 
140 
24 
24 
30 
2, 500 
2, 000 
no, ooo 
6,000 
16, 000 
6, 500 
1,100 
2, 000 
1, 600 
$80 
70 
4, 025 
210 
460 
220 
30 
800 
1,425 
75, 125 
3, 375 
15, 000 
4,125 
675 
$32 
43 
2, 796 
116 
435 
165 
20 
16 
50 
90 
1,947 
16 
60 
14 
2, 737 
338 
5,425 
1,400 
1,900 
103, 500 
4, 500 
20, 000 
5,500 
900 
1,400 
2, 200 
3, 000 
76, 200 
700 
2, 400 
450 
104, 950 
16, 000 
159, 600 
$49 
57 
3, 903 
155 
580 
220 
27 
21 
66 
120 
2, 596 
21 
144 
18 
3, 648 
450 
6,080 
20, 000 
1,000 
1, 000 
2, 600 
$1, 000 
30 
30 
60 
19, 800 
1,200 
1,400 
1,700 
$1,055 
40 
40 
60 
Crevalle 
2, 000 
40 
2, 650 
53 
40 ! 1,050 
50 l 1 . 050 
Pike 
2, 250 
57. 150 
525 
1, 000 
338 
78, 512 
12, 000 
145, 950 
Sheepshead 
12, 000 
600 
11, 900 
521 
44, 400 
540 
1,680 
540 
60, 840 
5, 400 
1,461 
15 
66 
18 
2, 391 
190 
74, 000 
900 
2, 800 
900 
101,400 
9, 000 
2,267 
25 
no 
30 
3,818 
245 
21, 000 
1,000 
1, 170 
30 
19, 850 
1,000 
1,123 
35 
Miscellaneous fish . . 
180 1 45 
82,800 1,409 
300 
83, 000 
75 
1,390 
60, 600 
2, 960 59, 500 
1 
2, 927 
290,000 9,015 
420, 000 
13, 145 
400, 950 
14, 300 
504, 600 
18, 155 
SUMMARY. 
Species. 
1889. 
1890. 
Species. 
1889. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
1, 600 
5, 200 
1,350 
226, 200 
26, 000 
159, 600 
300 
83, 000 
Value. 
$46 
254 
48 
8, 589 
730 
6, 080 
75 
1,390 
Bluefish 
Bream and sunfish 
Channel bass 
Crevalle 
Croakers 
Flounders 
Jewfish 
Mullet, 
2, 300 
2, 625 
166, 125 
7,975 
25, 600 
10, 625 
1, 335 
4, 250 
2, 610 
2,250 
113, 550 
$80 
85 
6, 494 
272 
753 
365 
44 
80 
80 
90 
4, 008 
3,900 
3, 900 
233, 300 
11, 700 
37, 400 
13, 700 
2, 000 
6,050 
3, 800 
3, 000 
162, 100 
$129 
127 
8, 983 
405 
1, 080 
500 
57 
114 
116 
120 
5, 384 
Shoemaker 
Spanish mackerel 
Striped bass 
Trout 
Miscellaneous fish 
Oysters 
Terrapins 
Turtles 
Total 
1,065 
2, 680 
878 
160, 352 
18, 400 
145, 950 
180 
82, 800 
.$31 
126 
32 
6, 298 
558 
5, 425 
45 
1, 409 
Sailor’s choice 
Sheepshead 
751, 550 
26, 275 
984, 100 
34, 227 
