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Industries related to the fisheries of Maryland, 1929 — Continued 

 WHOLESALE— Continued 



MANUFACTURING 



Items 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners.- 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages 



Products 1 



Salted, pickled, and smoked 



pounds.. 



Canned: 



Oysters .standard eases 2.. 



Alewives do 



Alewife roe do 



By-products: 



Oyster-shell products: 



Poultry food tons.. 



Lime .do 



Other products ' 



Total. 



Quantity 



2, 276, 940 



30, 853 

 37, 181 

 9,302 



41, 908 

 20, 542 



Value 



$262, 610 



193, 266 

 117, 744 

 63, 299 



319, 991 

 56, 719 

 13, 900 



1, 027, 529 



FISHERMEN'S PREPARED PRODUCTS 



1 Includes products prepared by 11 firms whose activities were principally in the wholesale fishery trade. 



2 A standard case contains forty-eight 5-ounce cans of oysters and forty-eight 1-pound cans of alewives 

 and alewife roe. 



3 Includes crab scrap, alewife scrap, and alewife oil. 



VIRGINIA 



The fisheries and industries related to the fisheries of Virginia in 

 1929 employed 14,320 persons, which is a decrease of 26 per cent, as 

 compared with the number employed in 1925 — the most recent year 

 for which comparable data are available. Of the total number of 

 persons, 10,041 were fishermen, 432 were employed on transporting 

 vessels, 2,918 in the wholesale trade, and 929 in the manufacturing 

 industries. Of the fishermen, three also were engaged in the manu- 

 facture of prepared fishery products. 



The total catch amounted to 211,285,829 pounds, valued at 

 $7,285,669, which is a decrease of 24 per cent in the catch and 20 

 per cent in the value of the catch, as compared with the catch and 

 its value in 1925. Of the total value of the catch, that of oysters 



