Although many galaxies in the Virgo cluster are known to have lost significant amounts of H i gas , only about a dozen features are known where the H i extends significantly outside its parent galaxy .
Previous numerical simulations have predicted that H i removed by ram pressure stripping should have column densities far in excess of the sensitivity limits of observational surveys .
We construct a simple model to try and quantify how many streams we might expect to detect .
This accounts for the expected random orientation of the streams in position and velocity space as well as the expected stream length and mass of stripped H i .
Using archival data from the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey , we search for any streams which might previously have been missed in earlier analyses .
We report the confident detection of ten streams as well as sixteen other less sure detections .
We show that these well-match our analytic predictions for which galaxies should be actively losing gas , however the mass of the streams is typically far below the amount of missing H i in their parent galaxies , implying that a phase change and/or dispersal renders the gas undetectable .
By estimating the orbital timescales we estimate that dissolution rates of 1-10 M _ { \odot } yr ^ { -1 } are able to explain both the presence of a few long , massive streams and the greater number of shorter , less massive features .