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of 24 percent in volume and 14 percent in value as compared with 

 the catch in the previous year. These fisheries gave employment 

 to 20,142 fishermen as compared with 20,946 in 1932. 



There were 502 fishery wholesale and manufacturing establish- 

 ments in the two States in 1933 as compared with 564 in 1931 when 

 the most recent previous survey of such concerns was made. In 

 1933 these establishments employed 11,596 persons, paid $2,366,762 

 in salaries and wages, and produced manufactured products (canned, 

 cured, packaged, and byproducts), valued at $7,245,169. In 1931 

 the wholesale and manufacturing firms employed 12,333 persons, 

 paid $2,802,420 in salaries and w^ages, and produced manufactured 

 products, valued at $7,905,626. 



Fisheries oj the Chesapeake Bay States, 1933 

 SUMMARY OF CATCH 



OPERATING UNITS: By States 



Item 



Maryland Virginia i Total 



Fishermen: 



On vessels 



On boats and shore: 



Regular.- 



Casual 



Total. 



Vessels: 



Steam 



Net tonnage- 

 Motor 



>Jet tonnage- 

 Sail 



Net tonnage- 



Total vessels 



Total net fonn^jie-- 



Boats: 



Motor 



Other 



Accessory boats 



-Apparatus: 



Purse seines: 



Menhaden 



Length, yards 



Haul seines 



Length, yards 



Gill nets: 



Anchor 



Square yards 



Drift 



Square yards 



Stake.- 



Square yards _ . 



Lines: 



Hand 



' -Hboks --. 



Trot with baits or snoods. 



Baits or snoods .... 



Pound nets 



Stop nets 



Square yards 



Number 

 664 



5,559 

 2,314 



A'umber 

 1,471 



7,073 

 3,071 



154 

 1,727 



154 

 1,727 



26, 



367, 

 3, 



298, 



1, 

 938, 



333 



,849 



74 

 654 

 296 

 311 

 683 

 963 



12 



24 



547 



350 



690 



Xumbtr 

 2,125 



12, 632 

 5,385 



11,615 



2,831 



105 



1,761 



3 



133 I 

 4,614 i 



4,212 



3,621 



102 



34 



10, 160 



191 



52, 063 



20, 142 



26 

 2,831 



105 

 1,761 



157 

 1,749 



287 

 6,341 



7, 492 



0, 937 



102 



34 



10, 160 



524 



88. 912 



74 



26, 654 



410 706 



337,045 704,356 



4,913 I 8,59(> 



266, .575 I 565,538 



12 



.- 24 



1,075 2,620 



499,610 1,437,96(1 



1.880 I 2,572 



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