FISHERIES OB^ THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



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pounds, $417,765; oj'sters with dredges and tongs, 14,749,490 pounds, 

 or 2,107,070 bushels, $644,109; and hard clams with tongs, etc., 185,704 

 pounds, or 23,218 bushels, $18,541. In the shore fisheries a greater 

 variety of apparatus was emploj^ed and the products comprised 

 upward of thirty different species. Seines secured 9,987,821 pounds, 

 $122,774; gill nets, 3,204,111 pounds, $133,171; pound nets, 34,620,083 

 pounds, $673,789; slat traps and weirs, 84,780 pounds, $2,559; fyke 

 nets, 668,837 pounds, $28,453; lines, 8,415,124 pounds, $105,894; eel 

 pots and spears, 47,700 pounds, $2,132; minor apparatus, 320,103 

 pounds, $25,976; dredges and tongs, 40,488,639 pounds, or 5,778,377 

 bushels of oysters, $2,279,287; clam tongs, hoes, and rakes, 1,578,976 

 pounds, or 197,372 bushels of clams, $116,236; and crab scrapes, 

 994,728 pounds, or 2,996,184 soft crabs in number, $42,638. 



The following tables show, by counties and species, the quantity and 

 value of products taken with each form of apparatus in the vessel 

 and shore fisheries of Virginia in 1901: 



Table showing, by counties,, the yield of the seine fisheries in Virginia in 1901. 



