Table 3. - NET FOOD SUPPLY PER PERSON - Continued 



j/ PREWAR DATA REFER GENERALLY TO 1934-38 AVERAGE, WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCEPTIONS: 1935 

 1938 FOR GERMANY AND GREECE, 1936-38 FOR THE NETHERLANDS, 1936-38 FOR AUSTRALIA, 1935- 

 39 FOR NEW ZEALAND, CANADA, UNITED STATES, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, COLOMBIA, URUGUAY, 

 AND UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, AND 1931-37 FOR CHINA. 

 ^IN TERMS OF FLOUR AND MILLED RICE. 



3/ INCLUDES SWEET POTATOES, CASSAVA, ETC.; POTATO FLOUR, MANIOC FLOUR, AND OTHER ROOT 

 iLOUR EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF POTATOES, CASSAVA, ETC. 

 4/ IN TERMS OF REFINED SUGAR, EXCLUDING SYRUP AND HONEY. 

 5/ INCLUDING OFFAL AND POULTRY. 



6/ WHOLE MILK USED FOR FRESH CONSUMPTION Ar<D FOR OTHER DAIRY PRODUCTS EXCEPT BUTTER. 

 i/, INCLUDING MEAT, EGGS, FISH, MILK^ CHEESE, BUTTER, SLAUGHTER FATS, AND MARINE OILS. 

 8/ MORE THAN 50 PERCENT DERIVED FROM ROOT 5R0PS OTHER THAN POTATOES AND SWEET POTATOES. 

 9/ INDIA AND PAKISTAN. 



22/fIGURES for commodity exclude UNREPORTEIJ CROP PRODUCTION, FOR WHICH ALLOWANCE IS MADE 

 !N TOTAL CALORIES. 

 SOURCE: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGAN I ZAT I Oh| . 



more protein comes from meat prednctlon. The near-term outlook is 

 for plentiful at^^plles of meat so there Is little possibility la the 

 near futttre for fish eonstOBption to make rapid inoreases as a result 

 of shortages of other protein foods. This phenomenon did happen with 

 fresh and frozen fish diuring World Var II hat it is not likely to occur 

 in the near~term for orer-all fish consiu^tlon or for any specific seg- 

 ment of the fisheries, suoh as tuna, unless another great war should 

 develop. 



But that is not to say that tuna consuiiption will not expand at all. 

 On the contrary, there is erery likelihood that it vill; hut for very 



different reasons. These reasons will he given later in this chapter 

 together wltn an estimate of the extent tana consuntption can expand. 



Oyi!R-ALL FISH QOHSUMPTIOH 



After the foregcing cosspaiison of tuna consumption with tha- of the 

 principal protein foods a review of the utilisation of all fish and the 

 over-all picture, of fish oonsonption in the Iftilted States is deairahle. 

 The volume of fish prodtused In the Thiited States for food consumption 

 since 1929 averaged, on a round weight hasis, approximately 3 billion 



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