FYKE NETS AND FYKE-NET FISHEKIES. 
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Products. 
Counties. 
Alewives. 
Catfish. 
Flounders. 
White perch. 
Yellow perch. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Accomac 
Elizabeth City 
Essex 
Fairfax 
Gloucester 
Isle of Wight 
James City 
King and Queen 
Nansemond 
New Kent, 
Prince William 
Richmond 
York 
Total 
m 
""■(rm 
4, 000 
$8' 
35’ 
’’"126’ 
1, 500 
$30 
3.500 
4. 500 
3.000 
400 
2,900 
2. 000 
8,025 
3, 672 
800 
2, 040 
100 
$105 
135 
150 
60 
116 
120 
307 
110 
32 
61 
15 
1, 500 
1, 200 
5,400 
4, 500 
5, 753 
7,956 
4,423 
300 
8, 000 
$90 
48 
162 
200 
176 
229 
133 
12 
320 
200 
4,* 200 
8 
’ " ’ 2io 
300 
2,080 
520 
$9 
166 
42 
10.000 j 500 
8, 300 
163 
39, 032 
1, 370 
15,-900 748 
30,937 1 1,211 
2, 900 
217 
Shad. 
Spots and croakers. 
Squeteague. 1 
Striped bass. 
Comities. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
A cnoina.fi 
500 
$20 
Elizabeth City . . . 
5,500 
$165 
5,000 
$150 
1,050 
$27 
90 
2, 800 
1, 650 
3, 000 
8, 559 
1, 836 
196 
Gloucester 
3, 500 
10, 500 
315 
7, 500 
225 
165 
Isle of Wight 
300 
James City 
7, 995 
318 
8,199 
327 
855 
King and Queen 
184 
N ansemond 
700 
36 
10, 000 
400 
■ 10, 000 
400 
6, 000 
1, 019 
480 
102 
Northampton 
7, 700 
330 
9,450 
38, 000 
283 
8, 100 
3, 350 
405 
York 
24, 500 
700 
10, 100 
480 
1, 120 
335 
Total 
37, 450 
1,183 
44, 095 
1,678 
78,149 
2, 505 
36, 814 
3, 042 
Suckers. 
Other fish. 
Terrapin. 
Total. 
Counties. 
Pounds. 
Yalue. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Accomac 
1,000 
3.000 
1.000 
1, 600 
$30 
6,500 
18, 000 
$185 
510 
Elizabeth City 
60 
30 
700 
$21 
237 
11, 350 
7, 600 
35, 650 
14, 500 
39, 587 
16, 632 
31, 500 
9, 242 
33, 850 
1,900 
539 
625 
1, 283 
700 
Fairfax. 
64 
2, 080 
240 
$50 
Gloucester 
Isle of Wight 
1,500 
45 
James City 
1,056 
3, 168 
32 
2, 015 
618 
King and Queen 
95 
Nansemond 
1,468 
349 
1,190 
157 
1, 760 
53 
North ampt on 
8, 600 
172 
Prince VV illiam . .. 
400 
16 
520 
59 
60 
13 
Richmond 
4,000 
11, 100 
200 
12, 000 
520 
York 
333 
97, 050 
3, 468 
Total 
12,984 
380 
28, 500 
1, 067 
300 
63 
335, 361 
13, 627 
THE SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES. 
The fyke-net fishery of this region is less important than in any other coast 
section, except the Gulf States where no fykes are employed. This is especially 
striking in view of the almost unlimited fishing-grounds to which this apparatus is 
adapted. In a recent report by the writer on the fisheries of the South Atlantic 
States attention was directed to the almost complete absence of fyke nets (and pound 
nets) from these States in the following words : 
A consideration of the forms of apparatus employed in the food-fish fisheries of the South Atlantic 
States shows that the use of seines and gill nets is so much more extensive than that of any other 
form, except in North Carolina, that all other apparatus is unimportant by comparispn, and that some 
types which in other regions constitute a very prominent means of captime are entirely absent or 
only sparingly used in the greater part of the South Atlantic region. The pound net, for instance, is 
