390 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Shad and Alewife fisheries of the Potomac River, 1937—Continued 






Item Maryland Virginia Total 
Shad caught: Number| Pounds | Value| Number | Pounds | Value | Number | Pounds | Value 
With drift gill nets______ 4,802} 13, 200/$1, 101 10, 860 30, 100) $3, 280 15, 662 43, 300) $4, 381 
With stake gill nets_____ 1, 694 5, 100 684 16, 267 42,000} 4,392 17, 961 47,100) 5,076 
With pound nets______- 9,240) 25, 200} 2,319} 121, 230} 319, 300] 28, 556} 130,470} 344, 500] 30, 875 
ANG YR lee eres spine a Cope 15, 736) 438,500) 4,104) 148,357) 391, 400) 36,228) 164,093} 434, 900) 40, 332 




Alewives caught: 



Withistake!eillinetss=2e3| 2 = nee eee |e 5, 000 2, 000 20 5, 000 2, 000 20 
With pound nets_----__- 519, 750) 207, 900) 1, 805)7, 042, 750)2, 815, 300| 27, 318)7, 562, 500)3, 023, 200) 29, 123 
Motalbe wees Sens 519, 750) 207,900) 1, 805)7, 047, 750) 2, 817, 300) 27, 338/7, 567, 500/3, 025, 200) 29, 143 








TRADE IN FISHERY PRODUCTS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 
The municipal fish wharf and market in Washington, D. C., is 
located in the southwestern part of the city on an arm of the Potomac 
River. At the present time 16 firms have stalls in this market, 2 are 
located in the immediate vicinity of the market, 2 have stalls in the 
Center Market, located at Fifth and K Streets NW., and 3 are 
located in other parts of the city. Altogether there are 23 firms which 
employ 156 persons who received $141,327 in salaries and wages during 
1937. These firms conduct mainly a wholesale business although 
some retail trade is carried on. In 1937 manufactured products 
produced by firms in Washington, D. C., consisted of smoked fish and 
shucked oysters. The total value of these products amounted to 
$10,225. 
The facilities for handling fish and oysters from boats and vessels 
that may land at the wharf are good, but only a comparatively small 
quantity are brought into the city by this method. In the fall and 
winter considerable quantities of shell oysters are landed, but most of 
the oysters handled in Washington are brought in already shucked 
om Maryland and Virginia by trucks and other transportation 
‘facilities. 
FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND GULF STATES 
(South Atlantic, Area XXIV; Gulf, Area X XV) 8 
The yield of the commercial fisheries of the marine areas of the 
South Atlantic and Gulf States (North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) during 
1937 amounted to 546,751,000 pounds, valued at $14,226,370 to the 
fishermen, representing a decrease of 2 percent in quantity, but an 
increase of 5 percent in value as compared with the catch of the previous 
year. These fisheries provided employment for 30,244 fishermen as 
compared with 29,006 in 1936. 
There were 725 fishery wholesale and manufacturing establishments 
in these States in 1937, which was 22 more than indicated by the survey 
in 1936. In 1937 these establishments employed 18,534 persons, 
paid $3,863,777 in salaries and wages, and produced manufactured 
products (canned, cured, packaged, and byproducts) valued at 
8 These are the numbers given to these areas by the North American Council on Fishery Investigations. 
The catch of the Mississippi River and tributaries is not included in this section. For a clearer under- 
standing of the statistics published in this section the reader is referred to the section in the latter part of 
this document entitled ‘‘Statistical survey procedure.”’ 
