FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1921. 



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Persons Engaged, Investment, and Products of the Fisheries of Virginia 

 IN 1920, BY Counties — Continued. 



fisheries by apparatus. 



The yield of the vessel fisheries of Virginia in 1920 was 366,805,629 

 pounds, valued at $2,634,383, consisting chiefly of menhaden taken 

 with purse seines, 360,145,505 pounds, valued at $2,136,404; oysters, 

 taken with dredges and tongs, 4,229,694 pounds, or 604,242 bushels, 

 valued at $384,469; crabs, with dredges and scrapes, 2,408,630 pounds, 

 valued at $110,810, of which 2,368,250 pounds, valued at $105,965, 

 are credited to dredges. In the shore fisheries the most productive 

 form of apparatus is the pound net, the catch amounting to 59,554,037 

 pounds, valued at $2,448,853. The species taken in the largest 

 quantities with pound nets were alewives, croakers, squeteagues, 

 menhaden, shad, and butterfish. Tongs, rakes, and hoes, used 

 chiefly in the taking of oysters, yielded 20,343,099 pounds, valued 

 at $1,897,186. The catch with lines, consisting principally of hard 

 crabs, amounted to 10,591,468 pounds, valued at $345,842; with 

 gill nets, 3,445,035 pounds, valued at $389,820, the principal species 

 being shad, croaker, alewives, and mullet; with seines, 2,838,227 

 pounds, valued at $202,039, principally alewives, white perch, 

 black bass, croaker, and squeteagues. Of the total catch of crabs 

 taken with dredges, amounting to 3,068,800 pounds, valued at 

 $136,341, 700,550 pounds, valued at $30,376, were credited to the 

 shore fisheries. Of the total catch of crabs with scrapes, amounting 

 to 855,262 pounds, valued at $105,807, 814,882 pounds, valued at 

 $100,962, are credited to the shore fisheries. 



