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seven in all. However, since the total production of these States was canvassed 

 in only two of those years (1940 and 1945) it is not possible to compare the 

 average shipments to Fulton Market with the seven-year average production, 

 by totals and by species. This comparison is made for the year 1945 in Table 

 30, which breaks the averages down in various ways, showing, for each State 

 the percentage its shipment of each species is of that State's production of 

 that species and of all species; the percentage each State's shipment of each 

 species is of the four-State totals of that species; the percentage of North 

 Carolina shipments of the State's total production, etc. As examples, croaker 

 constituted 13.65 per cent of the total combined shipments to New York of 

 all four States, 82.30 per cent of all of the croaker came from Virginia, and 

 this was 35 per cent of all of Virginia's shipments to New York; North 

 Carolina shipped 1.5 1 per cent of the four-State total of croaker; this amount 

 was one per cent of North Carolina's production of croakers and was 1.7 1 

 per cent of all of the States' shipments of all species to New York. North 

 Carolina shipped to Fulton Market 40.3 per cent of its production of bluefish, 

 31 per cent of the eels, 13 per cent of the soft crabs and butterfish, 12 per cent 

 of the shad, and 11 per cent of the production of shrimp. Forty-eight per 

 cent of the State's shipments of all fish to Fulton Market was shrimp, 10 

 per cent was bluefish, 9 per cent each of spot and mullet. From all the four 

 States (last column) the principal species which went to New York were 

 bluefish, butterfish, soft crabs, sea bass, gray trout, shrimp, Spanish mackerel, 

 and striped bass. These are the choice, high-priced species of the South 

 Atlantic. 



The total shipments to Fulton Market of these four southern States were 

 a small part of production; in 1945 North Carolina shipped to Fulton Market 

 only 4.44 per cent of its production of food fish; Maryland, 5.22 per cent; 

 Virginia, 4.06 per cent; Florida, 7.35 per cent; all four States together, 5.31 

 per cent. The total shipments to Fulton Market from all four States together 

 was only about 8 per cent of the annual receipts of that market from all 

 points in 1945. 



Comparison of Prices of North Carolina Fish at Morehead City and at 

 Fulton Market, New York. Records were not available in New York of the 

 values of the actual shipments of the various species from the South which 

 would make it possible to compare prices in New York with those received 

 by fishermen in the South. Advantage was taken of published general daily 

 level of prices of the Market Information Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, 

 for the various species in Fulton Market for comparison with the current 

 prices at Morehead City, N. C, on certain days from October 7 to Nov. 12, 

 1946. The data are shown in Table 31. 



