Survey of the South Carolina shrimp baiting fishery, 1998

Shrimp baiting surveys have obtained statistics on participation, effort, and catch for each year, in addition to information on demographics of participants, constituency opinions on management options and user group conflicts, and economic issues. The objectives were to estimate 1) total participation (i.e., the numbers of active permit holders and their assistants), 2) total effort in numbers of trips, 3) total catch, and 4) effort and catch by shrimping area. This is the result of the 1998 survey.