374 



MARINE FISHERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



I8S7 1890 1893 1896 1899 1902 1905 1908 1911 1914 1917 1920 1923 1926 1929 1932 1935 1938 1940 



1890 1893 1896 1899 1902 1905. 1908 



1932 1935 1938 1940 



Fig. 3. Fishermen of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and the quantity and value of their total 

 product, 1887-1940. Inadequate statistical record 1909-1919. 



Index, 1926=100/*^ Annual average prices and average production and 

 values per fisherman were then calculated, the money items in terms of both 

 actual and deflated money. 



These regional tabulations. Tables 41 to 47 in the Appendix, were then 

 expanded into annual series from 1887 to 1908 and 1915 to 1940 by straight- 

 line interpolation of quantities and actual values for the void years. The 

 actual value for each interpolated year was then converted to constant money 

 value by the index for that year, and both kinds of prices, as well as produc- 

 tion and income per fisherman were calculated for the whole series as was 

 done in the regional tables. The series for the regions as thus expanded by 

 interpolation (considered as work sheets and not here published) were then 



46. U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; see Statistical Abstract, 1947, Tables 318 and 323. The 

 index is based on wholesale prices of about 900 commodities. 



