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1889-92 * 

 Composite 



1938- 



39-40 t 



Average 



Shad 

 Alosa 

 sapidissima 



Atl. and Pac. 



Shrimp 



Peneus 



seti ferns, etc. 



Atl. and Gulf 



Striped bass 



Roccns 



saxatilis 



Atl. and Pac. 



Whitefish 



Coregomis 

 clupeiformis 



Great Lakes 



Quantity, lbs. '000 

 Per capita, lbs. 

 Actual dollars '000 

 Actual price, cents 

 1926 dollars '000 i| 

 1926 index price, cents 

 Fish price ratio ff 



Quantity, lbs. '000 

 Per capita, lbs. 

 Actual dollars '000 

 Actual price, cents 

 1926 dollars '000 || 

 1926 index price, cents 

 Fish price ratio ff 



Quantity, lbs. '000 

 Per capita, lbs. 

 Actual dollars '000 

 Actual price, cents 

 1926 dollars '000 || 

 1926 index price, cents || 

 Fish price ratio ft 



Quantity, lbs. '000 

 Per capita, lbs. 

 Actual dollars '000 

 Actual price, cents 

 1926 dollars '000 || 

 1926 index price, cents 

 Fish price ratio || 



* Composite totals for New England 1889, South Atlantic and Gulf 1890, Middle Atlantic 

 1891, Pacific 1892 ; Lakes 1890 interpolated between 1885 and 1893, all from U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



t U. S. Bureau of Census, Fisheries of the United States. 



t Average of three years, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries (1929-31), U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 

 1938-40. 



§ States east of Mississippi River and Louisiana (27 states) and District of Columbia; non- 

 decennial years interpolated. 



II All-Commodity Wholesale Price Index, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (averages for the 

 periods). The "1926 dollars" and "1926 prices" are in money of constant purchasing power in 

 terms of this index. 



J Non-food products excluded. 



** Food fish price index is the relative price of all Atlantic-Gulf-Lakes food fish referred to 

 average price in 1926 (5.77 cts./lb.) = 100. 



tt Fish price ratio is the ratio of the price of the specified fish to the average price of all 

 Atlantic-Gulf-Lakes food fish for the same period. The actual ratios are adjusted to make 

 1890 = 1. 00 so that deviations above or below i.oo in the subsequent periods indicate that the 

 price of the specified fish is increasing or decreasing relative to fish prices generally. 



tt Net Meats. For oysters, the number of pounds originally shown in the government reports 

 (calculated uniformly at 7 pounds per bushel) have been revised to conform to actual experi- 

 enced recoveries in the various states (U. S. Senate (1940), Rept. 1203, 76th Cong., 3d Sess.) 



§§ Seed oysters have been excluded 1902 and later; prior to that year they were not consistently 

 shown separately. 



