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in the quantity but an increase of $542,917, or 6.36 per cent, in the 
value. There was a decrease in the value of the products of the 
canning and other fishery industries amounting to $1,376,521, or 
30.10 per cent. 
Fisheries by apparatus.—The products of the vessel fisheries of 
Virginia in 1925 amounted to 159,439,533 pounds, valued at $2,138,- 
127, consisting chiefly of menhaden taken with purse seines, 146,008,- 
200 pounds, valued at $1,416,422; oysters taken with dredges and 
tongs, 7,505,033 pounds, or 1,072,148 bushels, valued at $624,881; 
and crabs taken with dredges, 3,345,587 pounds, valued at $115,595. 
In the shore or boat fisheries the most productive torm of apparatus 
used is the pound net, the catch amounting to 66,244,102 pounds, 
valued at $2,959,881. The species taken in the largest quantities 
with pound nets were alewives, croaker, squeteagues or ‘‘sea trout,”’ 
butterfish, shad, and menhaden. Tongs, nippers, rakes, forks, and 
clam picks or hoes, used chiefly in taking oysters, yielded a catch of 
24,035,361 pounds, valued at $2,400,112. The catch with lines, con- 
sisting principally of hard crabs, amounted to 15,138,799 pounds, 
valued at $424,086. Gill nets tock 3,463,948 pounds, valued at $338,- 
951, the principal species being croaker and shad. The catch with 
haul seines amounted to 3,977,704 pounds, valued at $190,503, the 
principal species being croaker, spot, squeteagues or “‘sea trout,” 
and carp. Dredges took 1,658,043 pounds, valued at $171,819; dip 
nets, 790,215 pounds, valued at $83,746; fyke nets, 1,243,694 pounds, 
valued at $83,499; crab scrapes, 482,124 pounds, valued at $45,141; 
pots, 183,115 pounds, valued at $13,305; slat traps, 318,310 pounds, 
valued at $8,612; stop nets, 83,000 pounds, valued at $8,240; otter 
trawls, 51,000 pounds, valued at $2,500; spears, 15,000 pounds, 
valued at $1,880; and purse seines, 264,404 pounds, valued at $1,311, 
The products of the vessel and shore fisheries are shown separately 
in the following tables: 
Yield of the vessel fisheries of Virginia in 1925, by apparatus and species 
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Species | Purse seines | Otter trawls 
Pounds Value Pounds Value 
ROA RC a ec ee roca Puen nave oooh [ee Sona b oe ee ee 1, 492, 000 $59, 680 
LDIIDE E13 (Gi Seep a ee a) [ee ohare |e ieee 5s 152,000 | 12, 160 
DEG GVOVT I ness on See ER pee he a ee | ee eee ae ee ee 2, 000 80 
ERCOPRNS S7VUNTN en) Te SI ele SR a ee ee ap eee eg (Ue etn oe Veer oe se 17, 750 | 1,775 
vinta prime eae ena! 1. SENS | AEE fe ee ee Wh 146).008, 200: |$1;,416,422 |. 22 lea 
SCH TUDOR yeaa mete ne ein yet Sa Sy a Wc nies ok eta be Ph ie Tod 14, 000 700 
SERS DES Sa ere a cD SU Rs gaa | ty a oe (ee 18, 000 2, 230 
ro] 0) 6) Page eae eles Ee See S et eh le SNA SE IRS TN oe op 30, 000 2, 270 
SHOITEHIGT O EES Bt sa I Ne 2 ae am | RRL ee vs) Irae eee | 22, 400 | 1, 690 
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TG a ell Ae De gn em | 146,008,200 | 1,416,422 | 1,748,150 | 80,585 
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Species Dredges Tongs 
Pounds Value | Pounds Value 
UDI OS, VET Lee gel ah Ae a 3, 339, 187 $113; 145: |-22t Soe eee ee eee 
latin NAAT eae ee ney Stews Teka ier NEY Sh ges ed 6, 400 2, 450 | 2, 000 $692 
Oysters, market: | 
(HU Nee pee ae ek ee, ha eee | 651, 420 78, 624 | 9, 100 970 
peiiaia ser gens os liga GTA Ua 3, 488,926 | 428° 016 | 5, 600 184 
SETH Gast le Ee earn aS 6 ee ee en 2, 400 ESTOr OY (tse sei ea [ange nS Sar 
kg talsa eter mera isso ean wey eae AFT ey? 7, 488, 333 623, 035 | 16, 700 1, 846 
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