182 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
The fifth Market News office was located in Jacksonville, Fla. 
In contrast to the other offices Jacksonville is neither an important 
fishing port nor the center of a large consuming area. It is, however, 
a very important concentrating, distributing, and shipping center, 
through which most of Florida’s fish passes when destined for Northern 
markets. From this office it not only is possible to indicate market 
trends in all Southern varieties of fish and shellfish by reporting the 
production, price, and shipments of the catch in Florida, but it also 
is favorably situated for obtaining data on cold-storage holdings in 
important plants in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and for com- 
piling current records of the valuable canned shrimp pack which runs 
over a million cases annually. Of equal importance to the Southern 
producers is the fact that the Jacksonville office is favorably situated 
to quickly disseminate wired information on receipts and prices of 
Southern fishery products and competitive varieties in Northern 
markets. 
The field offices are equipped with mimeographs, folders, and 
addressing machines to facilitate the expeditious preparation and 
handling of daily reports. The return address and frank are mimeo- 
graphed on the report, which is folded and sealed in such a manner 
that it may be mailed without the use of an envelope. Addresses are 
stenciled on the reports after sealing. Each office also uses a different 
color of paper for its reports which not only enables the recipient to 
quickly identify them in the mail each day but also facilitates their 
filing for future reference. 
It is estimated that existing fishery market news offices report 
market conditions affecting over a billion pounds of fish and shellfish 
annually. 
Reference is made to Figures 1 and 1a which are reproductions of the 
explanatory statement forwarded to those on the mailing list at the 
New York Fishery Market News office. Similar statements are 
furnished from the other offices. Figures 2, 2a, 2b, and 2c are repro- 
ductions of a representative daily report issued by the New York 
office. 
The activities of each of the Division’s Fishery Market News 
offices and the coverage of the daily reports emanating from them are 
here discussed in greater detail. 
NEW YORK, N. Y. 
The New York office of the Fishery Market News Service issued its 
first Fishery Products Report on February 14, 1988. Reports have 
been released daily since then with the exception of Sundays and 
holidays. 
The first section of each daily report includes data on the number 
of cars and packages of fish and shellfish which have arrived in the 
metropolitan area by rail freight and express during the preceding 24 
hours, or, in the case of intervening Sundays or holidays, the period 
since the latest report. In the instance of fish, the species rarely 
can be indicated since it seldom is noted on the bill of lading. For 
shellfish, however, the species generally is shown. Followmg the 
above section of the report, arrivals by coastwise vessels are reported. 
Imports of fresh and frozen fish and fishery byproducts, such as fish 
oils, fish meals, etc., are compiled daily from the ship’s manifests 
filed at the local Customhouse, and information concerning the com- 
modity, number of packages, country from which-shipped, and the 
name of the vessel are shown in the daily report. 
