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MARINE FISHERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



TABLE 31 



Prices at Fulton Market, New York City, and for the Same Species on 



the Same Days at Morehead City, North Carolina, 



Autumn of 1946 



at retail, the fisherman would receive only 15.8 per cent of retail as against 

 the livestock grower's 40.:^ per cent for pork. The standard commission in 

 Fulton Market is 12^ per cent; the return to the shippers, therefore, must 

 have been 40 per cent less 12^ per cent, or 35 cents, from which cartage, 

 icing, etc., would still have to be deducted. If these are a total of 5 cents 

 per pound, the return would still be 30 cents to the shipper of which the 

 fisherman received i2>4 cents, or 40 per cent of the wholesale, not retail, 

 price. 



The data for Fulton Market are probably more favorable to the fisherman 

 percentagewise than those of any other market. That Fulton Market is the 

 cheapest market is indicated by the fact that North Carolina ships only 4>4 

 per cent of its fish there; in almost any other market the fish must command 

 a higher price, and therefore the fisherman's share would be a smaller 

 per cent. 



Shipments to Other Commission and Brokerage Markets. So far we have 

 considered only Fulton Market, New York City, not only because it is the 



