category of frozen packaged nor canned products have declined in 

 iiaportance. In 1956 they accounted for only 2 percent of the total 

 value of manufactured products at the processor's level. 



Average por-pound values of frozen packaged, canned, and all 

 manufactured shrimp products have been computed in table V - 48. The 

 table shows that a pound of frozen packaged shrimp at the manufacturer's 

 level in I930 vas valued at I8 cents and at 7^ cents in 1956. Per-pound 

 value of canned shrimp rose from 37 cents to $l.l8 during this period. 

 The average value per pound of all manufactured shrimp products increased 

 from 27 cents in 1930 to 78 cents in I956. 



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TABLE V - 148.— AVERAGE VALUE PER POUND OF MANUFACTURED SHRIMP PRODUCTS 

 AT THE PROCESSOR'S LEVEL, SPECIFIED YEARS 



Frozen packaged 

 (Including breaded) 



Canned 

 (Including canned 

 specialties) 



Total 

 nanufactured products 



y 



Value 

 of 

 pack 



Average 

 Quantity value 



packed 



per 

 poxind 



Value 

 of 

 pack 



Average 

 Quantity value 



packed 



per 

 pound 



Value Quantity Value 

 of of 



pack packed p^ck 



Thousand Thousand 



dollars povmds Dollars 



l,h8? .180 



16,118 .1514 



3/52, 76U .5U1; 



80,797 .698 



112,981 .578 



116,617 .637 



121,992 .7I1I 



Thousand Thousand 

 dollars pounds Dollars 



Thousand Thousand 

 dollars pounds Dollars 



5,013 

 U,33U 

 12,9ll( 

 19,lii9 

 13,792 

 13,678 

 16,758 



2/13,633 

 16,883 

 12,102 

 15,653 

 li|,326 

 13,802 

 11*, 207 



.368 



.257 



1.067 



1.223 



.963 



.991 



1.180 



6,llU 



7,231 



l4l;,963 



li/76,537 



~ 80,269 



89,7U6 



109, U82 



23,06U 



38,503 



70,659 



99,379 



130,592 



133,679 



liiO,735 



.265 

 .188 

 .636 

 .770 

 .615 

 .671 

 .778 



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Includes dried and miscellaneous products. 



Estimated. 



Does not include 1,520,326 pounds of cooked and peeled, fresh and frozen. 



Includes 5, 91 5 pounds of smoked shrimp manufactured in 1950. 



Processing Facilities and Operations i_/ 



Raw shrimp are landed either directly at the docks of processing 

 establishments or at public or private docks from which they are trucked 

 to a plant or market. With the exception of shrimp v/hich are frozen at sea 



1r/ Information on shrimp processing facilities and procedures has been 

 gathered for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries by the Bureau of Business 

 and Economic Research of the University of Miami, by First Research 

 Coi-poration of Florida, and by the Federal Trade Comr,iission. 



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