Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-10

tasteful in which it was displayed Then
the principal market fell into comparative dsuse Now
an upo-date building is being erected for the
mediation Of the French which the latest ideas
OF refrigeration are to be in operation The partitions
will be Of white tile and imitation marble pillars
support the roof Thus sanitation Bowling displacs
the picturesque and Bienville
The lack Of shipping facilities has been a serious
drawback. The wholesale dealers from Tampa Cedar
Key st. Petersburg and Punta Gorda have for years
operated feet of transporting vessels, which
regular trips to the fishing camps carrying supplies
and bringing in the catch Now most of these vessels
equipped with refrigerating compartments which
store the @sh and bring them market good
ton Formerly the fish placed in hold Of
vessel and ice scattered Them the loss from
spelling, account Of delays incident to high winds
and Gains was so great as to consume much of the
profit The construction OF q railroad now added
greatly shipping facilities and aarge storage
plant and fish fertilizer factory Gorda,
thirty miles from the mouth of the Charlotte harbor.
provides for the freezing Of the better fish
well the utilization OF those which nom
edible. The Of Florida others
supply of blue fish, mulet snapper Spanish
ere. pompano and several others.
The fish and game commission Of Texas has secured
the widest encouragement in its effort increase the
fishing resources OF that state The hsh
announced at a meeting held Austin month
had received about forty propositions from different
sections of the establishment Of stats
hatcheres since he announced his intention o
tablishing The propositions from CONNER
cial organizations OF towns located upon different
decided
cries for the present each in the eastern southern
western northern parts OF the The require
hatchery include the supply least ESQ.,
600 gallons Of water day and satisfactory
railroad facilities to insure the transportation of the
fish.
The fishery interests the gulf states include the
Florida and the entire coasts Of Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas They repre-
investment Of s5.ooooOo in capital of
which Florida and Mississippi make onehalf Their
combined
900 in value annually. increasing all the time.
gain since 1897 being rs per cent in quantity
S. PEI cent in value The part Of this
increase has the development of the
industry chiefly through the efforts and corporation
bureau Of fisheries The west shore of Florida
presents longer coast line than any other OF the
states it being 2s1O miles length indented with
many bays, sounds and lagoons which furnish good
harborage for the light draft fishing vessels There
large of rivers entering the gulf but there is
little commercial fishing in Of them excepting for
sturgeon in the Apalachicola river.
gill net is the most important apparatus in
fishing noticeably falling on each The
seine net used but not to any extent Before the
Spanish war; a thriving trade done with Cuba in
the sailed muet industry. After that, the trade in
this fish declined time is being revived.
only instead being sailed, it is being shipped
and sold fresh In shipping mullets an ordinary
used having partition across it at both
sides the to form compartment at each end
Of the Alternating layers of mulet and cracked
ice placed in these enclosures until the car contains
a load of $4,000 pounds Of hsh.
The red snapper fishing still centers at Pensacola.
although it is becoming important at Tampa well
as other points. The sturgeon and turtle
fisheries also increasing in value while the
fisheries constitute Industry which is far confined
exclusively Florida There are several canning fac
tories located upon the western coast of this state which
put up oysters and turtle principally although the
preparation surgeons caviar is also profit
able trade.
OUR LEGAL Fozns.