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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Below is given a table showing the approximate extent of the water territory 
examined and the approximate area of the natural beds discovered. Probably one- 
fourth or one-fifth of the total area will be found suitable for oyster planting. The 
region not surveyed, principally between Breach Inlet and North Inlet, would undoubt- 
edly add a considerable acreage to that enumerated in the table. The season being- 
limited, operations were chiefly directed to those localities which were regarded as of 
most importance and seemed to present the most favorable conditions. The natural 
oyster beds are being depleted, as they are in North Carolina and in Georgia, and the 
only way in which the supply maybe maintained or increased is by utilizing for plant- 
ing the suitable bottoms now producing no oysters. The total area surveyed amounted 
to about 81,289 acres, and the areas of the natural oyster beds to about 773 acres. 
Table of areas examined. 
Locality. 
New River (part examined) 
Cooper River 
Calibogue Sound 
Broad Creek 
May River 
Bull Creek 
Mackay Creek 
Skull Creek 
Port Royal Sound 
Chechfissee River 
Colleton River 
Okeeteet River 
Broad River 
Pocotaligo River 
Whale Branch 
Archer Creek 
Beaufort River 
Chowan Creek 
Jericho and Battery Creeks 
Brickyard and Albergottie Creeks . . . 
Coosaw River 
Parrott Creek 
Dale Creek 
Morgan River 
Bull River 
Combahee River 
Ashepoo River (part examined) 
St. Helena Sound 
South Edisto River from Point of 
Raccoon Island to the mouth 
St. Pierre Creek and tributaries 
Bailey Creek, planted ground, 20 
acres 
Dawho River (lower part) 
Steamboat Creek and its tributaries, 
including Mud Elat 
Acres. 
N atural 
Total. 
oyster 
beds. 
830 
21.4 
960 
5.4 
2, 944 
*4.8 
496 
6.5 
2, 000 
13.1 
340 
7.6 
904 
14.5 
720 
13.1 
3.6 
2, 810 
14.5 
1,640 
12.4 
256 
2.2 
12, 274 
22.8 
300 
3.2 
1,024 
11.0 
150 
3.2 
3, 840 
19.6 
720 
8.7 
512 
9.0 
560 
2.1 
7, 104 
19.6 
355 
4.6 
290 
2.5 
2, 496 
9.1 
928 
7.1 
1,088 
5.5 
760 
12.0 
4.9 
1,150 
6.3 
750 
42.0 
80 
334 
8.5 
1.360 
71.0 
North Edisto River 
Bohicket Creek 
Leadenwah Creek 
Townsend River 
McCloud Creek 
Togodo Creek (part examined) 
Wadmelaw River 
Stono River 
Kiawah River 
Polly River 
Schooner and Light-house creeks 
Ashley River (part examined), ap- 
proximate 
Cooper River (part examined) , ap- 
proximate 
Wando River (part examined) , ap- 
proximate 
Charleston Harbor 
Sullivan Island Narrows and tribu- 
taries 
Goat Island Creek 
Little Goat Island Creek, planted 
ground, 20 acres... 
Meeting Reach to Dewees Creek 
Dewees Creek, Grays Bay, Hamline 
and Copahee sounds 
Inland Passage, between Dewees 
Creek and Bull Bay 
Inland Passage and all the bays and 
sounds north of it, planted ground, 
45 acres 
Total . 
Acres. 
Natural 
Total. 
oyster 
beds. 
2, 112 
7.9 
450 
2.2 
384 
3.2 
240 
80 
384 
2, 450 
150.5 
2, 580 
14.5 
900 
33.8 
700 
(t) 
820 
57.5 
2, 600 
10.4 
6, 052 
10.9 
4, 992 
34.8 
1,020 
7.2 
140 
5.8 
80 
180 
9.6 
2, 500 
15.5 
13.3 
773.0 
t Not examined. 
