number of fishing craft, and quantity and type of fishing gear employed 

 in the comnercial fisheries of the two geographic regions. The 

 Bureauts Frozen Fish report, published monthly and annually, includes 

 the quantity of "headless" and "all other (including breaded)" shrimp 

 frozen each month emd held by cooperating cold storage warehouses on 

 the last day of each month. This bulletin is preceded by a preliminary 

 report released 15 to 20 days earlier. Manufactured Fishery Products , 

 an annual sooBiary, contains the production and value of the various 

 processed commodities, including manufactured shrimp products, produced 

 in the United States and its territories. Ihe Canned Fish and by - 

 products rex>ort contains data on the annual production of canned 

 (hermeti rally sealed and processed) products and by-products (shrisqp 

 Included), emd the number of plants producing these commodities. 

 Packaged Fish is an annual report. It includes data on the production 

 of consumer packaged products (packages containing 2 pounds or less) 

 of two classifications of shrimp, "breaded" and "non-breaded". 



An annual bulletin Imports and Exports of Fishery Products 

 lists the quantity and value of fishery products imported and exported, 

 by com-modity classification. The bulletin includes data for the 5 

 most recent years, A monthly report on selected fishery imports, by 

 country of origin, is also available. 



Fisheries of the United States and Alaska is an annual summary 

 containing statistics on the number of fishermen, number of fishing 

 craft, type and quantity of gear, and volume and value of catch. A 

 preliminary report is released each year shortly after the first of 

 January, the final report being issued when the information available 

 is more complete, 



Fisheiy Statistics of the United States is an annual 

 statistical digest which contains over 300 pages of detailed data on 

 the fisheries. It incorporates information included in the various 

 other annual statistical reports and in addition contains historical 

 series on a number of major fisheries. 



The various publications listed above— with the exception 

 of the last-named statistical digest which may be obtained from the 

 Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 

 D. C»--are mailed free of charge by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 to interested persons. 



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