FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1930 339 



Industries related to the fisheries of Virginia, 1929 — Continued. 



FISHERMEN'S PREPARED PRODUCTS 



Items 



Fishermen engaged number. 



Sturgeon roe pounds. 



$500 



' Includes products prepared by two firms whose activities were principally in the wholesale fishery 

 trade. 

 ' A standard case contains forty-eight 1-pound cans of alewives or alewife roe. 

 ' Includes canned crab meat and alewife scales. 



HISTORICAL REVIEW 



Twelve general surveys have been made for statistics of the Chesa- 

 peake Bay States during the 50-year period from 1880 to 1929. The 

 catch for 1929, amounting to 274,673,000 pounds, was considerably 

 less than that in any year since 1888. The largest catch was made 

 in 1920, when 530,750,000 pounds were taken. Comparative statis- 

 tics for the catch of each of the more important species are shown in 

 the following tables. 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States, 1880 to 1929 



SUMMARY: By states 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars; that is, 000 omitted] 



Year 



1880. 

 1887. 

 1888. 

 1890. 

 1891 

 1897. 

 1901 

 1904 

 1908 

 1920 

 1925 

 1929 



CATCH OF CERTAIN SPECIES: By States 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds; that is, 000 omitted] 



• The catch in some of the earlier years does not include that in districts other than the Chesapeake Bay, 

 but the error resulting therefrom is negligible. 



2 Includes harvestflsh. 



3 Data not available. 



