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Four Canning Planyg
One of the most remunerative industries of the town is conducted in the four extensive fish, fruit, and oyster canning establishments recently located here. ~	....••
The oyster canneries keep in occupation, for a greater part of the year, a fleet of at least a hundred small ksa±x vessels, luggers, sloops, and schooners.
VJhen the oysters are out of season, the factory operatives turn their attention to prawn or sea shrimp, or to putting up the fine fruits and vegetables indigenous to the region.
Though this is tut comparatively a new industry, it has already grown to important proportions, and supports a large class of the seocoast copulation.
Fishing
Biloxi Bay, from its mouth opposite Deer Island, extends with a rounding westward curve nearly ten miles_ inland. It receives the waters of Biloxi River and Bayou Bernard, near its head, and those of Fort Bayou close to its mouth.
The bay and all the streams named are famous for their fishing, and abound in immense numbers of green trout or bass, speckled ses-trout, redfish, and sheephead.
The waters of the Sound channels, near the end of the piers and wharves are frequented by the same varieties of fish, with the exception of the green trout, which is a fresh water or brackish water fish, and at times by the superior Spanish mackerel, and the finest of all American fish, the ponpano.
Out in the Sound, a few riles awav, both amateur anglers and professional fishermen caoture quantities of redsnao^er and grouper, two of the best varieties of fish common to the Gulf of Mexico.
The blue fish, another choice and gamy deniren of the deep, is found in nurr^rsbers in this part of the Gulf.
i^unting
Biloxi enjoys the reputation of being located in the vicinity of one of the finest hunting regions in the South. The best deer hunting in Mississippi is to be had in the wooded country just behind the northern banks of Biloxi River, about ten miles distant from the town.
The winter duck and snipe shooting is good in the bay, the streams leading to it, or in some of the flats near the banks.
The wild turkey, the noblest game bird of America, still remains in undepleted flocks in the thinly-settled hunting region beyond the northern shores of Biloxi Bay.