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CATCH: By countTiEs—Continued 







Species Somerset Talbot Wicomico Worcester 
Pounds |} Value | Pounds | Value | Pounds) Value| Pownds | Value 
@lamss hard; public. 23-2. 25.223 | See re | tN eee i SS eee 25, 300 | $3, 200 
Oysters: 
Market, public, spring----_- 938, 300 |$54, 677 356,100) ($23,375, || \67,:1001 [5456705 | een eee 
Market, public, fall___..--.- 2, 477, 200 |152, 027 |1, 210, 200 | 78,600 |164,000 | 9,936 |_---------j_---_-- 
Market, private, spring - --~_- 23, 000 232 | Secs oe ses eee 100, 600 | 6,709 134, 500 | 22, 863 
Market; private; fall = a-sss5- | pogONOOUN || 28;\047je| anes eee 304, 700 |20,313 | 247,400 | 31, 237 
S06 Ko CES es ee ee eee ee | Lee ee 55, 000 1, 275 
Termapin, diamond back...22---|" (2%300"|| {625 |b. 5 See eee a2 eee eee 
Motalecn =. Wasa oase ese 8, 254, 700 |4383, 871 |9, 035, 100 |270, 510 lie 900 |59, 586 |5, 622,100 |161, 862 
SEED OYSTER FISHERY: By GEAR 
Item Oyster dredges 
OPERATING UNITS Number 
ishermen yoni vesselsie: e253: see Seo ean a po, ae eae eee 2 OS ea ee 209 
iViessels* Salles -== =: 2 eee Se 2 Us A TE ee a oe 2 ee ae ee eee 39 
WNetitonnage:se2ks= asc ss issn fe BURL so eee sees ese 758 
JA PATaLUS MUNA DEL = sae Oe eee ae ee ae ee ee 78 
NAT GS atyMouth fees a oo See Se Ee Se ne 8 co eee a ann Se ee 107 
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CATCH Bushels Value 
Oyvsterssisesd4 public, Spring 253. °. 25 2 te se oe en eee cn oo ee eee 229, 618 $22, 962 


NoteE.—Of the persons and gear employed in the seed oyster fishery all are duplicated among those in the 
market oyster fishery or fisheries for other species. The Maryland seed oyster fishery was carried on by 
vessels from Somerset, Talbot, Dorchester, Calvert, and Baltimore Counties in the open waters of Chesa- 
peake Bay off Anne Arundel, Kent, and Queen Annes Counties. 
VIRGINIA 
Fisheries of Virginia, 1935 
OPERATING UNITS: BY GEAR 



Gill nets Lines 
Purse sed 
seines, au 
Moe men- | seines L Runes a 
haden Drift anal Stake Hand paitsiar 
snoods 
Fishermen: Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number 
@myessels-2 se +2 os soc et seer eee es 1002's = seh ee ets 84 | eso. |  | 
On boats and shore: 
Re Cuan= 2 Ae sticks Seog | Cee eee 193 S2e |S ae ane 110 1 804 






FAICCESSOTVADOATS oe ae ee ee oe ee 83 SELL ~~ | ee a ES ee eee 
Apparatus: 
INTUIM DOTA aes os eee one eee nee oe 152 332 2 7, 380 150 1, 304 

FGOKS Wbalts}OrsnoOdss a. ean | eee eens | eee | eee | eee | ee eee 150 684, 700 








