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1.5 cents in the previous year. Landings of this species at the ports 
of Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Maine, aggregated 
64,700,000 pounds in 1938 as compared with 58,300,000 pounds in 
1937, and the all-time high of 66,600,000 pounds in 1936. It will be 
recalled that prior to the intensive exploitation of this fishery in 1935 
the rosefish was of little importance as a commercial species. The 
entire landings at the three above-mentioned principal New England 
ports amounted to only 57,000 pounds in 1932. 
During the 4 years beginning in 1935, in which this fishery has been 
one of importance, Boston has received about 67 percent of the land- 
ings, Gloucester 32 percent, and Portland 1 percent. However, dur- 
ing these 4 years the relative importance of the individual ports in 
the receipts of rosefish has undergone considerable change. The land- 
ings at Boston, while amounting to 49,400,000 pounds in 1936, de- 
creased to 34,100,000 pounds in 1938. The landings at Gloucester 
amounted to 17,000,000 pounds in each of the years 1936 and 1937 
but increased sharply to 29,400,000 pounds in 1988. The receipts of 
this species by vessels at Portland have increased from 70,000 pounds 
in 1935 to 1,150,000 pounds in 1938. 
While rosefish are taken widely throughout the fishing banks of the 
North Atlantic, the Western Side of South Channel alone contributed 
35 percent of the landings at these three New England ports during 
1937. Other fishing areas of especial importance as contributors to 
the landings at these three ports were as follows: Southern Nova Scotia 
21 percent, Brown’s Bank 20 percent, Eastern Side South Channel 11 
percent, Inner Grounds 5 percent, and Western Nova Scotia 3 percent. 
Virtually the entire catch of rosefish is made by otter trawls. 
COD FISHERIES OFF THE EAST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
The average annual catch of cod off the East coast of North America 
for the 10-year period from 1926 to 1935, inclusive, amounted to 
1,108,000,000 pounds, as compared with an annual average of 1,169,- 
000,000 pounds for the preceding 10-year period, according to a report 
prepared by Edward A. Power, Associate Statistician and the writer, 
for the use of the North American Council on Fishery Investigations. 
The present study brings up to date Fisheries Document No. 1034 
entitled “Statistics of the Catch of Cod Off the East Coast of North 
America to 1926,” by Oscar E. Sette, which includes available data 
on the cod fishery prior to 1927. In 1935, the most recent year for 
which complete statistics are available, the catch of cod in this region 
amounted to 1,109,000,000 pounds. The cod fisheries off the Hast 
coast of North America are prosecuted by the nationals of no less 
than five countries. The most important among these, with respect 
to the annual volume of fish taken, is Newfoundland, the catch of 
which in the years from 1931 to 1935, inclusive, averaged 495,000,000 
pounds. Following in order were Canada, which produced an average 
of 192,000,000 pounds annually during the same period; France, 127,- 
000,000 pounds; United States, 109,000,000 pounds; and Portugal, 
40,000,000 pounds. 
SOURCES AND SUPPLIES OF STURGEON 
Imports of sturgeon into the United States have been consistently 
decreasing in recent years. In 1931 receipts of sturgeon from foreign 
countries amounted to 3,435,000 pounds, but decreased to 1,744,000 
