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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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by the census of 1890
the inland fisheries of Georgia were reported as employing 69 persons
with a total investment of $7,859 for boats and minor apparatus. The
annual products were 93,480 pounds of fish, valued at $7,829. All these
figures were considerably below the reality. The fisheries along the
coast are classified in the United States census under the head of the
Atlantic and Gulf Boat Fishery, and embrace the fishing along the
coast in boats. It is so called to distinguish it from that at sea, requiring
vessels large enough for registry, that is of five tons burden, or more.
The fish are generally sold at once to consumers with only enough of
care and labor to insure their delivery. A large proportion of the fisher-
men are negroes, who equip themselves in the most inexpensive manner,
their boats being often so simply made as to have a merely nominal
value. The census report declares that there is such irregularity int
heir employment, that the return of the number thus engaged is es-
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BLACK BASS.
From a painting; by Hal Morrison of Atlanta. Ga.
GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 325
pecially unsatisfactory. Of the "Atlantic Boat Fishery", reports were
made of only ten of the States leading in this industry. Georgia was
not one of these.
Since 1893 there has been an immense increase in the fishery busi-
ness on the Georgia coast.
From 1888 to 1891 several oyster canneries were started, but all failed
from lack of experience. In the winter of 1893 and 1894 Mr. August
Oemler reopened his canning establishment on Wilmington island. His
business has steadily grown, and for each of the last two winters his can-
nery has packed 1,400,000 cans. His establishment employs 24 sailing
crafts of from eight to thirty-two tons burden, also three tugs with seven
barges, besides numerous small crafts of from thirty to one hundred
bushels capacity. There are three other canneries in operation in the
vicinity of Savannah. These are: Vam & and; Byrd, Thunderbolt; Georges

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