TABLE 79" - AMUAL AVERAGE RETAIL PRICE, SOLID PACK, LIGHT -MEAT, 



FANCY NO « 1/2 CAN TUNA IN SELECTED CITIES OF THE UNITED 



1/ April - December (9 months). 

 2/ February - December (11 months) 

 SOURCES United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and 

 United States Fish and Wildlife Service. 



The retail price data were matched with appropriate data indi- 

 cating what parts of the retail price were received by producers 

 (fishenaen), processors, and distribution agencies. These data are 

 shown in table 80 which provides information for West Coast produc- 

 ed and processed canned tuna and in table 81 which gives information 

 for East Coast processed canned tuna. In table 80 it will be noted 

 that the amount taken for distribution is the smallest of the three 

 shares. For table 81 no data were available for the remuneration to 

 fishenaen, A large portion of the raw fish used by East Coast pack- 

 ers is caught by foreign fishermen, whereas the reverse is true for 

 the pack made on the West Coast <, 



Production of solid pack_„ light-meat canned tuna which consists 

 predaninantly of the No c 1/2 or 7'-ounce can, accounted fcr about 26 

 percent of the domestic pack of canned tuna in 1950, 22 percent in 

 1951 and 16 percent in 1952. Distribution of this particular prod- 

 uct accounted for about the same percentages of total distribution 

 of canned tuna. Although that commodity only accounts for those ap- 

 proximate percentages of the total canned tuna pack and total 



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