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quantity are brought into the city by this method. In the fall and 

 winter, considerable quantities of shell oysters are landed, but most 

 of the oysters handled in Wasliington are brought in already shucked 

 from Maryland and Vu'ginia, by trucks and other transportation 

 facilities. 



During the year 1934 the receipts of fresh and frozen fishery prod- 

 ucts as received at the municipal fish wharf amounted to 9,933,552 

 pounds. This is an increase of 4 percent as compared with 1933 and 

 an increase of 1 percent as compared with the 5-year average. 



During 1934 three firms in Washington, D. C, smoked fishery 

 products, amounting to 187,100 pounds, valued at $20,205. Of this 

 amount, 153,500 pounds, valued at $11,160, consisted of herring smoked 

 as bloaters; 29,500 pounds, valued at $8,310, were whitefish; while the 

 remainder or 4,100 pounds, valued at $735, consisted of alewives or 

 "river herring", eels, and haddock. 



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