FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



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Statement, by Counties, of the Products op the Fisheries of Virginia in 



1904— Continued. 



THE PRODUCTS BY APPARATUS. 



The pound nets operated in Virginia yielded a catch greater than 

 that of all other apparatus in the state combined. The number of 

 nets was 1,656, valued at $350,725, and the catch amounted to 

 37,476,338 pounds, valued at $850,710. The nets were fished in 22 

 of the 32 counties engaged in commercial fisheries. 



In Princess Anne County pound nets are set in the Atlantic Ocean 

 off Virginia Beach, and in Lynnhaven Bay, off the mouth of Lynn- 

 haven Inlet, there being, in 1904, 10 nets in the ocean and 4 in the bay. 



The pound-net fishery of Norfolk County is prosecuted at Ocean 

 View, where 6 nets were operated, and also at Hampton Roads, 

 where 4 nets were set off Sewells Point and Willoughby Spit. The 

 number of nets fished in Norfolk County has decreased more than 



