FISHERIES OF THE GULF STATES. 
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2,818,900 pounds of fish, worth $122,293, were obtained in this way, besides shrimps, 
crabs, terrapins, and turtles. The principal species of fish caught are trout, channel 
bass, and sheepshead. Lines, in 1890, took 202,400 pounds of fish, valued at $8,595, 
besides a portion of the yield of crabs. The fish caught in largest quantities in this 
way were catfish, jewfish, channel bass, trout, and sheepshead. Cast nets are 
sparingly employed in the capture of shrimps and a limited number of species of fish, 
the most important of which is mullet. The aggregate yield of fish by this means in 
1890 was only 88,500 pounds, having a value of $3,430. Spears are employed in a 
number of counties in obtaining flounders, of which 07,000 pounds were taken in 1890, 
for which the fishermen received $3,200. 
76 . — Table showing by counties and apparatus the yield of the shore fisheries of Texas in 1889 and 1890. 
Jefferson. 
Chambers. 
Galveston. 
Apparatus and 
species. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
750 
$38 
98 
600 
$30 
90 
5, 812 
15, 270 
$291 
4,650 
14, 338 
$232 
698 
Bream and sunfish . 
1,000 
15, 000 
0, 000 
5, 500 
$50 
750 
1,000 
13, 800 
$50 
690 
• 1, 970 
1, 850 
764 
300 
5j 500 
6,500 
275 
Channel bass 
340 
370 
40, 650 
2, 410 
2, 015 
96 
40, 420 
2, 245 
7,060 
1,900 
400 
2, 109 
110 
320, 840 
18, 690 
47, 007 
15, 983 
746 
313, 255 
17,405 
54, 715 
14, 725 
16, 457 
850 
2, 000 
100 
2,000 
100 
6, 375 
2. 000 
318 
357 
2, 871 
760 
2, 769 
775 
100 
100 
15, 700 
3,870 
500 
20 
20 
155 
3, 100 
11,083 
15, 810 
155 
Mullet, 
1,700 
51 
1,430 
57 
13, 175 
395 
444 
800 
40 
800 
40 
2, 100 
105 
2, 040 
100 
16, 275 
789 
775 
250 
67 
200 
60 
1,950 
14, 215 
524 
], 550 
465 
1,835 
72 
1, 700 
85 
562 
13; 175 
228, 625 
4, 500 
225 
5, 000 
250 
31,000 
1,355 
29, 500 
1, 431 
242, 750 
10, 575 
11, 089 
830 
41 
780 
38 
6, 070 
322 
6, 045 
7, 750 
3, 875 
328, 871 
294 
600 
42 
1,000 
60 
4,650 
325 
465 
620 
31 
500 
25 
4, 805 
239 
193 
6, 500 
330 
7,500 
380 
44, 600 
2, 299 
42, 435 
2, 262 
345, 618 
17, 820 
17, 540 
Miscellaneous fish. 
2, 000 
80 
2, 200 
88 
5. 190 
- 234 
5, 300 
244 
40, 223 
1, 814 
41, 075 
1,891 
Total 
43, 300 
2, 215 
44, 300 
2, 243 
143, 380 
6, 982 
139, 360 
7, 178 
1,116,920 
54, 935 
1,080,047 
55, 751 
Cast, nets : 
| 
300 
18 
300 
18 
2, 325 
19, 375 
140 
2, 325 
19, 425 
139 
2,500 
100 
2, 500 
100 
775 
774 
Miscellaneous fish . 
2, 800 
175 
3,000 
190 
2, 800 
3,000 
190 
2,800 
118 
2, 800 
118 
21, 700 
915 
21, 750 
913 
Lines : 
800 
64 
800 
64 
6, 200 
5, 810 
496 
6, 150 
5,807 
494 
8, 500 
2, 500 
400 
7, 000 
2, 500 
340 
750 
22 
750 
23 
173 
174 
125 
125 
Drum, salt-water . 
400 
8 
400 
8 
3,100 
1, 930 
62 
77 
3, 100 
1,935 
5, 735 
62 
77 
250 
10 
250 
10 
2, 000 
80 
2, 000 
80 
490 
24 
740 
34 
3, 798 
191 
268 
2,200 
300 
125 
480 
24 
17, 050 
2, 325 
969 
3, 720 
186 
Trout. 
3,200 
160 
3, 200 
160 
21 
300 
20 
163 
2, 325 
164 
Miscellaneous fish . 
7, 000 
250 
7, 000 
250 
23, 200 
1,015 
21, 700 
955 
5, 190 
9.7,4 
3, 720 
183 
40, 213 
2, 131 
28, 772 
1, 425 
Spears : 
2, 700 
155 
2, 700 
160 
20, 800 
1, 205 
21, 550 
1,240 
Miscellaneous : 
147, 000 
16, 500 
7, 040 
164, 710 
7, 210 
420 
i, 139, 250 
127,900 
156.940 
55, 280 
3, 250 
1,276,490 
125 937 
55, 330 
3,255 
3 495 
420 
16, 250 
13, 800 
240 
20, 250 
634 
451 
4, 918 
106,950 
1,860 
2, 450 
580 
2, 700 
650 
3 , 120 
520 
60 
24' 180 
4, 030 
465 
2, 450 
580 
2, 700 
650 
186, 870 
8,614 
195, 000 
8, 141 
1,448,270 
67, 478 
1,511,237 
62, 545 
Grand total 
71,750 
3,985 
71, 700 
4, 038 
340, 940 
16, 143 
343, 580 
15, 780 
2,647,903 
126, 664 
2,663,356 
121, 874 
