FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 
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THE YIELD BY DIFFERENT FORMS OF APPARATUS. 
The importance of the principal forms of apparatus employed in the fisheries is 
shown in Table 48, the counties and species being specified. 
Gill nets are seen to be the most productive means of capture ; in 1890 no less 
than 3,813,719 pounds of fish, valued at $118,485, were caught in this way, shad, mul- 
let, sheepshead, and squeteague being the principal species taken. Seines rank next 
to gill nets in the amount and value of yield, the catch being 2,087,222 pounds, worth 
$54,061, in 1890. Shad, sunfish, and black bass are the principal seine products. 
By means of hand and set lines there were taken 512,913 pounds of fish, which gave 
a return of $17,757, black bass, sunfish, channel bass, sheepshead, and squeteague 
constituting the larger part of the yield. Cast nets take sunfish, mullet, and sque- 
teague in greater numbers than other species, although the catch by this apparatus 
is small, being only 133,662 pounds, valued at $4,214. The pound-net and trap-net 
fishery, which had no existence as a commercial enterprise in the first year covered by 
this report, is credited with small quantities of numerous species in 1890 ; the total 
catch was only 86,715 pounds, the selling price of which was $1,365. Of the miscel- 
laneous products, besides fish proper, recorded in the table, oysters and quahogs, 
secured with tongs and the hand, are the most important; turtles and terrapin are 
taken with nets and seines; shrimp are caught with seiues and cast nets; and crabs 
are mostly obtained on trot lines. 
48. — Table showing by counties, apparatus, and species the yield of the fisheries of eastern Florida in 1S89 
and 1890. 
Nassau. 
Duval. 
Clay and Putnam. 
Apparatus and 
species. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
1889. 
1890. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds 
Value. 
Pounds. 
V aluc. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
V alue. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Seines : 
9, 210 
17, 050 
9, 260 
31, 723 
6, 385 
23, 310 
14, 170 
$368 
512 
8, 000 
15, 760 
5, 000 
$320 
472 
Bream and sunfish, 
3,380 
$170 
5,000 
$250 
Channel bass, 
287 
150 
480 
25, 000 
5, 020 
10, 000 
15, 000 
375 
Spots and croakers, 
192 
150 
700 
300 
425 
450 
387, 000 
2, 150 
400, 000 
2, 000 
111,108 
2, 964 
83, 780 
2, 217 
390, 380 
2, 320 
405, 000 
2, 250 
Gill nets : 
Channel bass, 
23, 000 
227, 000 
1,200,783 
18, 195 
69, 318 
3, 120 
720 
35, 000 
526, 176 
1,348,512 
15. 800 
1, 050 
7,893 
63, 632 
474 
3, 405 
97, 000 
107, 250 
2, 145 
74, 000 
244, 500 
1,265 
8, 050 
60, 000 
$3, 000 
37, 800 
$1, 890 
60^ 209 
550 
6^ 930 
Squeteague, fresh, . 
Sturgeon, fresh 
Other fish, fresh . . . 
4, 530 
37,500 
2,930 
215 
6, 240 
26, 055 
3,478 
300 
2, 220 
70 
65, 000 
2, 000 
J , 950 
45 
750 
515 
130 
150 
24, 090 
720 
23, 590 
708 
16, 000 
85 
20, 000 
100 
104, 960 
4, 095 
73, 573 
2, 855 
1,565,506 
67, 894 
2,016,078 
75, 752 
220, 250 
9, 160 
338, 500 
9, 415 
