FISHERIES OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES 



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catch amounted to 187,006 bushels, valued at $200,680. A few soft 

 clams were taken in Accomac County. 



Crab scrapes and dredges. — Scrapes are used in the shore fisheries for 

 catching soft crabs, chiefly in Accomac County. The catch amounted 

 to 1,585,088 pounds, valued at $69,413. In three counties dredges 

 were used in the vessel fisheries for taking hard crabs, securing a catch 

 of 2,210,140 pounds, valued at $38,924. 



The catch with dredges and tongs, which are used in both the shore 

 and vessel oyster fisheries, is the most important product of the 

 fisheries of Virginia. The catch by vessels was 2,075,567 bushels, 

 valued at $842,158; the shore catch was 5,536,722 bushels, valued at 

 $2,617,518. 



The following tables give the quantity and value of products taken 

 with each form of apparatus in the vessel and shore fisheries of Vir- 

 ginia in 1904: 



Statement, by Counties, op the Yield of the Pound-Net Fisheries op 



Virginia in 1904. 



