FISHERIES OP THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
441 
Statement hy counties, apparatus, and species of the yield of the shore fisheries of Virginia — Coutinned. 
Elizabeth City. 
Essex. 
Eairfax. 
Apparatus and 
species. 
1890. 
1891. 
1890. 
1891. 
1890. 
1891. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
PoundvS. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Poiiuds. Value. 
Seines : 
8, 000 
$80 
7, 000 
$70 
609, 6.59 
$3, 872 
93, 610 
$980 
7, 800 
$390 
4, ;500 
$225 
1,335 
12, 000 
60 
1,045 
10, 875 
47 
5, 000 
150 
2, 500 
75 
480 
435 
1, 200 
GO 
600 
30 
Eels 
2, 000 
120 
1,568 
94 
Mullet 
12, 000 
240 
8, 500 
170 
4,345 
264, 460 
186 
3, 780 
182, 280 
161 
Shad 
8, 624 
6, 904 
2, 300 
3, 500 
2,000 
69 
1,500 
2, .500 
Sfiueteague 
Striped bass . . . 
103 
200 
1,500 
150 
500 
50 
400 
40 
a. 435 
770 
275 
30 
3,660 
110 
293 
4 
7, 165 
215 
6,000 
880 
190 
4,100 
82 
2, 300 
46 
4, 000 
200 
4,000 
2(10 
' 800 
20 
22 
32, !)00 
1, 146 
21,400 
741 
17 5(J0 
480 
13, 900 
385 
905, 969 
13, 882 
J03, 808 
9, 130 
Pound nets : 
AlevTives 
151, 130 
114,066 
1,511 
5, 833 
106, 000 
76, 000 
1,060 
3, 800 
159, 000 
1, 590 
120, 000 
1, 200 
198, 000 
1,980 
223, 906 
2, 669 
2, 800 
84,210 
104 
90, 000 
2, 700 
69, 000 
2, 070 
28, 000 
840 
2, 526 
Oobia or crab- 
24, 333 
62, 660 
34, 395 
8, 560 
28, 315 
65, 300 
486 
18,250 
47, 350 
29, 840 
7, 320 
27, 100 
53, 000 
365' 
1,880 
1, 030 
350 
1,420 
895 
290 
3, 800 
150 
3, 281 
1.30 
850 
715 
Kingtisli and 
1,960 
1,728 
1, 590 
8G4, 000 
612, 000 
1; 224 
23, 850 
1, 170 
17,400 
870 
12, 600 
630 
25, 400 
1, 166 
49, 600 
598, 111 
8, 933 
4. 960 
37, 200 
428, 165 
3, 720 
Shad 
20, 506 
446 
14, 680 
22, 050 
030 
15. 750 
4.50 
13, 335 
381 
10, 520 
263 
Sheepshead . . . . 
Spanish mack- 
6, 700 
335 
155, 333 
116,500 
11,650 
1, 065 
44^500 
10(5. 330 
14, 400 
208, 6(50 
1,335 
5 000 
35, 500 
117, 250 
10, 900 
224, 000 
Squeteague 
Striped bass . . . 
3, 518 
1,090 
6,720 
26, 400 
45, 000 
' 1 320 
19, 500 
36, 000 
990 
2, 880 
L440 
8, 960 
3, 840 
3, 500 
280 
7, 560 
604 
2, 765 
18, 335 
70 
2, 4,50 
12, 269 
63 
4, 200 
126 
0, 600 
2,730 
187 
Other fish 
111, 380 
1, 990 
67, 740 
1, 190 
530 
347 
7, 000 
350 
109 
Total 
2, 300, 606 
75, 798 
2, 020, 815 
55, 327 
391, 200 
12, 000 
295, 650 
9, 000 
266, 635 
4, 587 
363, 786 
7,628 
Gill nets: 
Shod .. 

203, 752 
5, 821 
535 
161, 700 
6, 100 
5, 500 
4, 620 
610 
200, 700 
5,213 
210 
149, 704 
700 
3, 775 

2, 100 
70 
loi 500 
330 
110 
Total 
• 
225, 602 
G, 686 
173, 300 
5, 340 
202, 800 
5. 423 
150, 404 
3,845 
Pyke nets : 
1,200 
1,400 
12 
800 
8 
! 
84 
1, 500 
0 
2, 800 
84 
2, 000 
60 
300 
12 
200 
8 
5, 250 
157 
4,500 
135 
2, 600 
1,750 
118 
3, 300 
159 
45 
1,050 
4, 200 
6,800 
126 
3, 500 
105 
Squeteague 
204 
5, 000 
150 
2, OUU 
1, 600 
110 
2, 800 
196 
2, 000 
40 
3, 000 
60 
40 
1, 000 
30 
1.200 
36 
700 
21 
21,050 
oil 
18, 000 
510 
12, 050 
487 
11, 350 
539 
Lines: 
30, 820 
1, ICO 
33, 670 
1,360 
22, 000 
550 
21,780 
653 
416,410 
36, 310 
V\ 494 
380, 000 
30, 842 
16, 900 
15, 000 
1 260 
11, 400 
725 
616 
14! 505 
490 



13, 240 
1, 100 
255, 125 
842, 500 
21, 700 
410 
490 

Shec])shead 
1 
7, 053 
2G5, 000 
875, OOU 
7, 950 
Squeteague 
26, 250 
837 

I 
'652 
27, 900 
1 

Total 
1,631,770 
48,934 1,045,572 
49, 508 
22, 000 
550 
21, 780 
653 
