34 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
number of fish taken was 15,111 less than in the previous year. Mary- 
land fishermen are credited with wa 80,944 shad, weighing 302,237 
pounds and selling for $55,963, as eainst 448,414 fish, weighing 
1,677,543 pounds and valued at 4978 8501, taken by Virginia fish- 
ermen. 
The production of alewives or river herrings was 8,759,336 fish, or 
4,352,668 pounds, valued at $55,137, of which 7 681 61 fish, weigh- 
ing 3,813,780 pounds and having a value of $41,197, were taken “by 
Vir ginia fishermen. 
The combined fisheries for shad and alewives gave Ros ign ae to 
753 heres who used 451 boats, valued at $83,889 ; $ 271 pound nets, 
valued at $126,455 ; 211 gill nets and one haul seine, valued at $39,620; 
and shore ahd accessory property worth $1,375. 
THE FROZEN-FISH TRADE. 
From compilations made from the monthly memoranda issued by 
the Bureau of Markets it appears that fish frozen between January 
15, 1920, and January 15, 1921, aggregated 85,324,366 pounds. The 
quantity of halibut frozen was 10,625,029 pounds ; herring, 10,356,305 
state whiting, 10,208,755 pounds; salmon, 7 836, 620 pounds; cis- 
coes, 6,968,750 laa mackerel, 4,835,173 pounds; cod, haddock, 
hake, a pollock, 3,940,163 pounds; and squid, 3,252,720 pounds, 
with smaller amounts of other species. The maximum quantity in 
storage at one time during the year, amounting to 67,827,934 pounds, 
was reported on November ett and the minimum, amounting to 
90,284,470 pounds, on May 15, 1920. A study of the data over a 
period of several years ca eaten that the storage peak is reached 
about November 15 and the low point between April 15 and May 15 
of each year. 
FISHERIES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES, 
Tabulated returns of the statistical canvass of the fisheries of the 
South Atlantic States concluded by the Bureau in 1920 indicate that 
p 1918 the industry gave employment to 15,046 persons, of whom 
8,036 were credited to North Carolina, 2,000 to South Carolina, 1,680 
to Georgia, and 3,330 to eastern Florida. Compared with the returns 
for 1902, there was a decrease of 8,406, or 35.84 per cent. The capital 
Inv ested. was. $7,423,971, distributed, as follows: North Carolina, 
$4,229,043; South C arolina, $221,251; Georgia, $769,998; and eastern 
Florida, &2.910,679. Compared. an 1902, there was increase of 
$4,432 822, or 148.19 per cent. The principal forms of apparatus 
employed in the fisheries were pound nets, gill nets, purse seines, 
haul seines, and otter trawls, the last- named device having been in- 
troduced in the shrimp fisheries about 1915. 
The products of the fisheries aggregated 332,614,123 pounds, w:th 
a value to the fishermen of $5,348, G16, distributed among the several 
States as follows: North Carolina, 210,501,750 pounds, $2,978,708 ; 
South Carolina, 3,746,932 pounds, $207,690; Georgia, 37,153 953 
DeUnGss $416,043 ; and eastern Florida, 81 211 488 pounds, $1, 746 AT. 
Some of the more abundant species arr anged in order of size of 
eatch were: Menhaden, 257,757,799 pounds, valued at $1,605,117; 
shrimp, 15,656,903 pounds, valued at $470,346; alewives, fresh and 
