The average quantity of cod steaks or fil- 

 lets used per plant was about 11 pounds 

 compared with h pounds of whole or dressed 

 cod. A larger proportion of north-central 

 firms bought whole or dressed cod than 

 elsewhere, but even here, not quite so 

 many bought them as steaks or fillets. 



Haddock 



The average quantity of fresh and fro- 

 zen haddock steaks and fillets used per 

 plant was almost 11 pounds . ( In addition an 

 average of 10 pounds of whole and dressed 

 haddock was used per plant). The fresh 

 and frozen steaks and fillets accounted 

 for about 7 percent of the total poundage 

 of fish and shellfish used during the 

 survey period. The average price for 

 those items was ill cents per pound but it 

 was reported as low as 2U cents and as 

 high as 70 cents. The major share of both 

 the number of transactions and the total 

 volume fell between 30 cents and kh cents 

 a pound. 



Fifty-three percent of the small 

 companies bought less than 10 pounds of 

 haddock steaks or fillets at a time. In 

 the medium-sized plants, however, the most 

 customary order was between 10 and 19 

 pounds while half the large companies 

 usually bought between 20 and 39 pounds. 

 Not a single small plant bought as much as 

 IiO pounds at a time, but half the total 

 consumption was accounted for by large and 

 medium-size plants that bought IiO or more 

 pounds. 



Ocean perch 



This commodity, with over 70,000 

 pounds used in h weeks, constituted 8 per- 

 cent of the total fish and shellfish 

 volume. It was one of the lowest-priced 

 species of fish, averaging 33 cents per 

 pound. The average quantity used per 

 plant was 12 pounds. About 50 percent of 

 the plants used a total of less than 60 

 pounds during the survey period. While 

 16 percent used 200 or more pounds, most 

 of them were in the 200- to 299 pound 

 range. 



In small plants, the quantity of 

 ocean perch bought ranged from under 10 

 to 1+9 pounds, with the largest proportion 

 buying between 10 and 19 pounds. Firms 

 with 500 or more employee sometimes went 



as high as 160 or more pounds in a single 

 purchase. A third of the volume was used 

 by plants that usually bought a hundred 

 or more at a time . 



Canned salmon 



Approximately 9 percent of the total 

 u-^week use of fishery products was in 

 canned salmon. 



The most usual procedure for buying 

 canned salmon was in quantities of be- 

 tween 20 and 49 pounds . More than half 

 the small (51 percent) and about two- 

 thirds of the medium- and large-sized 

 firms dealt in such sizes. A fifth of 

 the total volume used was by plants 

 buying in lots of 50 pounds or more. 



Twenty-four percent of the transac- 

 tions for this item were for 1-pound cans, 

 and a similar proportion was in cases of 

 2U 1-pound cans. One -third were in cases 

 of U8 1-pound cans. 



Salmon in pound cans ranged in price 

 from 30 cents to over 75 cents, averaging 

 56 cents a pound. Over half the trans- 

 actions in this size unit and two-thirds 

 of the volume fell between 4 5 cents and 

 59 cents j 6 percent of the transactions 

 and 10 percent of total quantity used 

 resulted from purchases at 75 cents or 

 more a pound. 



In cases of 2li 1-pound cans of 

 salmon, transactions were found all the 

 way from $8.88 a case to $22.20 with a 

 $13.00 {SS cents a pound) average. 

 Around a third of the purchases were be- 

 tween $12.00 and $13.99 a case. 



Canned tuna 



Canned tuna accounted for about 10 

 percent of the 4 -week use of fishery 

 products. Prices differed considerably 

 by the size of the unit purchased. In 

 all, 26 different purchase units were 

 mentioned. Most popular were 13- to 

 lli-ounce cans, in 24-unit cases. The 

 same size in cases of 48 accounted for 

 9 percent of the purchases, as did cases 

 of six 4-pound cans. 



More than half of both the small and 

 the medium-sized plants usually bought 

 less than 20 pounds of canned tuna at a 



