FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1921. 

 Fisheries of Maryland and Virginia, 1920 — Continued. 



81 



Items. 



Maryland. 



' Nuiit ber. 

 101,357 



Virginia. 



PRODUCTS — continued. 



Mullet 



Ocean siuiflsh 



Perch, white 



Perch, yellow 



Pigflsh 



Pike or pickerel 



Pompano 



Redlish or red drum 



Scup 



Sea bass 



Shad 



Sheepshead 



Spanish mackerel 



Spot 



Squeteagues or " sea trout ' ' : 



Fresh 



Salted 



Striped bass 



Sturgeon 



Sturgeon caviar 



Sturgeon roe 



Suckers 



Sunfish 



Whiting , 



YeUowtailor "silver perch". 



Crabs, hard 



Crabs, soft 



Squid 



Clams, hard 



Oysters, market , public 



Oysters, market, private 



Oysters, seed, public _ . 



Oysters, seed, private 



Scallops 



Terrapin 



Turtles 



Frogs 



Cabomba , 



Alewife scales 



321, 739 

 310, 398 



64, 458 



734 



41,535 



101,980 



42,980 



1, 867, 196 



51 



8,477 



364, 759 



2, 274, 490 



7,000 



1,040,274 



21,411 



2,784 



2, OuO 



5, 3uO 



11,730 



400 



1 5, 165, 703 



3 3,897,271 



468 



5 30, 200 



' 29,953, 581 



9 1,878,716 



823 

 3,045 



Value. 

 $5, 162 



32, 991 

 31, 452 



13,688 



147 



627 



2,611 



3,447 



355, 217 



8 



1,282 



6,829 



91,514 



770 



193, 295 



5,551 



8,750 



160 



70 



234 



40 



248, 160 



494,784 



29 



10, 575 



2,111,345 



179, 775 



1,000 

 147 



Total. 



59, 530, 795 



4,198,668 



'iV*w7/7trtr. 



458, 158 



100 



648, 165 



117,755 



69, 300 



80, 860 



6,930 



117, 550 



35, 140 



18,975 



7,293,805 



2,155 



33,839 



967,296 



12,908,502 



3,350 



2 12,465,342 



< 1,171, 737 



42,150 



6 499, 440 



8 10,757,488 



10 11,823,420 



115,008,150 



12 155,925 



13 113,760 



248 



18,680 



480 



900 



10, 203 



471,219, 



Value. 



$17,417 



20 



46,638 



10,547 



3,523 



8,081 



1,430 



3,753 



2,418 



1,427 



1, 145, 106 



263 



5,039 



67,270 



654,521 



126 



401, 295 



164, 269 



1,475 



229, 645 



993, 548 



1, 174, 375 



178, 038 



3,200 



26, 852 



360 



1,165 



120 



90 



1,055 



8.541,724 



1 15,497,109 in number. 

 » 37,396,026 in number. 

 '11,691,813 in number. 

 < 3,515,211 in number, 

 s 3,775 bushels. 



6 62,430 bushels. 

 » 4,279,083 bushels. 

 6 1.536,784 bushels. 

 9 268,388 bushels, 

 lo 1,689,060 bushels. 



11 715, 450 bushels. 

 12 22,275 bushels. 

 »8 18,960 bushels. 



CRAB FISHERY OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. 



The decline of the crab fishery of Maryland and Virginia in recent 

 years has been so rapid as to alarm those interested in its perpetuation, 

 also to develop considerable interest as to the relative destructiveness 

 of the various forms of apparatus of capture and the regulatory 

 measures necessary to restore the fishery to its former magnitude. 



At a conference at the Department of Commerce in Washington, 

 D. C, on July 13, 1921, attended by the Commissioner of Fisheries 

 of Virginia, tne chairman of the Conservation Commission of Mary- 

 land, the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, repre- 

 sentatives of the Bureau of Fisheries, and others, the State authorities 

 agreed to seek concurrent legislation upon the following: (1)^ That it 

 be unlawful to take or have in possession a " sponge bearing crab 

 at any time of the year; (2) that it be unlawful to take crabs by the 

 use of a trot line between December 1 and March 31, inclusive, and 

 that the dredging of crabs be allowed only from December 1 to March 

 31, inclusive; (3) that the minimum size for a peeler crab be estab- 

 lished at 3 inches from tip to tip of spine and for a soft crab at 3i 

 inches. 



