FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



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besides its important oyster industry, has profitable pound-net 

 fisheries. The products of Queen Anne County consist mainly of 

 oysters, hard crabs, and striped bass. The oyster product is taken 

 entirely with tongs. Baltimore ChVy supports a very important vessel 

 fishery for oysters, though there were in 1904 but little more than one- 

 third as many vessels from that port as in 1901. Baltimore County 

 (including Baltimore City) ranks first in the amount of investment 

 and number of persons employed, because of its oyster canning and 

 shucking trade. Charles is the only one of the remaining counties in 

 which oysters are taken. Cecil County ranks first in the value of 

 pound-net fisheries, followed by Worcester, Charles, Dorchester, and 

 Talbot counties. Shad and alewives constitute the main catch of 

 these nets. In Harford County these two species are taken mostly in 

 seines. The salting of alewives is an important industry in both Cecil 

 and Harford counties. The fisheries of Caroline County have de- 

 creased in value from $22,012 in 1S97 to $1,571 in 1904, mainly on 

 account of the diminished number of shad ascending the Choptank 

 River. 



Statement, by Counties, ok the Number op Persons Employed in the Fisheries 



of Maryland in 1904. 



" Includes Baltimore City, 



