486 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
FINDINGS 
Through this study it has been found that— 
1. Greater St. Louis is supplied with fresh and frozen fishery 
products by 28 States and 4 Canadian Provinces. 
2. Wholesale dealers distribute fresh and frozen fishery products 
to 17 States. 
3. Wholesale houses are in close proximity to terminal team tracks 
and cold-storage warehouses, thereby minimizing time and expense 
in intracity transportation of fishery products. 
4. Consumer preference for fresh-water fishery products has been 
replaced by a more general use of salt-water fishery products. 
5. Six fishery products constitute 75 per cent of the trade, 4 of 
which are salt-water products and 2 fresh-water products. 
6. The popularity of whiting has been due, in no little degree, 
to its being prepared for cooking and to its sale as a whiting sandwich 
by hot-fish shops. 
7. Most of the retail fish stores handling fishery products every 
ey, in the week cater largely to the Jewish, Italian, and colored 
trade. 
8. The gentile trade deals largely with grocery stores that handle 
fishery products only one or two days a week. 
9. These grocery stores, while handling quantities of fish in the 
round or viscerated are inclined to handle prepared packaged 
products more readily. 
10. Cold-storage facilities afforded in greater St. Louis have 
tended to stabilize the fish trade. 
11. Frozen fishery products amount to over one-half of the receipts. 
12. Wholesale dealers prefer to have shipments made in boxes. 
13. Wholesale dealers prefer fishery products prepared and pack- 
oe at the point of production as far as consistent with the type 
of fish. 
14. The annual per capita consumption of fish in the round is 
about 12 pounds and of the edible portion about 9 pounds. 
SOURCES OF SUPPLY OF FISHERY PRODUCTS 
The fisheries of 28 States and 4 Canadian Provinces contribute in 
supplying greater St. Louis with fishery products. During 1926, 
13,127,000 pounds of fishery products were received in this market, 
of which 9,099,000 pounds, or 69 per cent, were salt-water varieties, 
and 4,028,000 pounds, or 31 per cent, were fresh-water varieties. Of 
the total amount, Massachusetts sent the largest supply, amounting 
to 4,583,000 pounds, consisting entirely of salt-water varieties. 
Florida was second with 1,384,000 pounds, consisting of 946,000 
pounds of fresh-water varieties and 438,000 pounds of salt-water 
varieties. Washington was third with 1,324,000 pounds, consisting 
entirely of salt-water varieties. Louisiana was fourth with 1,166,000 
pounds, consisting almost entirely of fresh-water varieties. New 
York was fifth with 749,000 pounds, consisting entirely of salt-water 
varieties. Other States or Provinces, in order of importance, were: 
New Jersey, Illinois (quantities of these fish were reshipped through 
Chicago and did not originate in the State), British Columbia, Mary- 
land, Ohio, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ten- 
nessee, Manitoba, Missouri, Connecticut, New Brunswick, Maine, 
