394 



MARINE FISHERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



expected of the total fish product of the country, containing many luxury 

 and non-competitive items, and a marked growth factor as well. Never- 

 theless, the nature of the competitive interplay is discernible even here. 

 The most nearly constant series are those of quantity of agricultural animal 

 products and price of fish (mean deviations, 3.33, 3.31 and 6.87); the 

 most variable series are those of prices of agricultural animal products and 

 quantity of fish (mean deviations 22.4, 24.6 and 14.4). 



TABLE IS 



Cyclical Behavior of Production and Prices of Animal Products of Agricultural 

 Origin and Food Fish of the United States (7 Regions) 



* Average 1935-39 = 100. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



t 1926 = 100. Calculated from data assembled in this study. 



t Average Aug. 1909-July 1914 = 100. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



Numbers of Fishermen. Table 38, Appendix, and Fig. 3 exhibit the total 

 quantities of all kinds of fishery products in the Atlantic-Gulf regions, 

 the total number of actual fishermen (so far as ascertainable) who produced 

 it, their production per man and their incomes actual and in relative buying 

 power per man. Table 39, Appendix, and Fig. 4 exhibit similar data for 

 the United States (7 regions). These exhibits show for the United States (i) 

 that over the 54-year period, 188 7- 1940, the United States production of 



