152 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Imports of fishery products entered for consumption, 1931 — Continued 



Item 



Quantity 



Value 



NONEDiBLE FISHERY PRODUCTS — Continued 

 Sponges: 



Sheepswool pounds.. 



l^ellow, grass, or velvet do 



Other do 



Manufactures of do 



Total 



208, 539 



324, 728 



38,904 



2,557 



574, 728 



Agar-agar pounds.. 



Ambergris do 



Cod-liver oil cake and cod-liver oil cake meal .do 



Cuttlefish bone do 



Goldfish, live number.. 



Fish for other than human consumption 



Fish sounds pounds.. 



Fish scrap and fish meal tons.. 



Skins, fish, raw or salted pounds.. 



Skins, seal, raw (not fur skins) do 



Spermaceti wax do 



Whalebone, unmanufactured... do 



"Whalebone manufactures of. .._ 



469, 335 



7 



944, 856 



432, 970 



1,518,641 



97, 766 

 38, 447 

 131,904 

 , 208, 166 

 24,261 

 14 



Total 



Total nonedible fishery products. 

 Grand total 



$425, 384 



154,875 



83, 263 



1,071 



664, 593 



304, 466 



1,940 



30, 195 



57, 361 



20, 306 



56, 698 



17, 509 



1, 351, 842 



13, 453 



292, 813 



2,767 



31 



554 



2, 149, 935 



14, 096, 705 



43, 033, 389 



FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES^ 



The yield of fishery products in the New England States during 

 1930 amounted to 701,350,979 pounds, valued at $27,493,479. This 

 is an increase of 1 per cent in the volume of the catch, but a decrease 

 of 5 per cent in its value as compared w^ith the catch in the previous 

 year. Of the total catch in 1930, 645,574,206 pounds, valued at 

 $19,232,205 were fish, and 55,776,773 pounds, valued at $8,261,274 

 were shellfish and miscellaneous products. These fisheries gave 

 employment to 17,077 fishermen which is a decrease of less than one- 

 half of 1 per cent as compared with the number of fishermen in 1929. 

 Of the total number of fishermen employed during 1930, 6,192 regular 

 fishermen were engaged on vessels and 7,961 regular and 2,924 

 casual fishermen were employed in the boat and shore fisheries. 



Fisheries of the Neio England States, 1930 



SUMMARY OF CATCH 



* W ith reference to the figures published in this section the reader should refer to that section in the latter 

 part of the book entitled "Statistical survey procedure" which gives in detail methods for collecting statis- 

 tics, compilation practices, and conversion factors. This is most necessary for a complete understanding 

 of the statistics presented herewith. 



