FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1938 183 
Direct landings by fishing vessels at the New York market are 
reported as “‘hailing fares.” Since hailing fares often vary from the 
actual landings, the exact ‘‘weigh-outs’’ are included in the report 
for the following day. With the advent of the Fishery Market News 
Report an accurate record of landings by species at New York City 
has been made available for the first time. 
Landings by fishing craft at Portland and Rockland, Maine, and 
at Boston, Gloucester, Provincetown, and New Bedford, Mass., are 
tabulated and included in the report. The number of craft, type of 
gear used, and the price of each species landed also are shown. Sec- 
tions on Pacific coast markets include the transactions on the halibut 
and salmon exchanges in Seattle, Wash., halibut landings at Prince 
Rupert, B. C., and the number of cars of fresh or frozen fish shipped 
East from each of these ports. Such information relating to market 
conditions at other fishing ports is received in New York by telegraph 
early each morning. 
The amount of fish and shellfish entering or withdrawn from. cold- 
storage plants in the Greater New York area is compiled and shown 
daily in about 60 classifications. Once each week the current holdings 
are compared with the holdings of the preceding week and also with 
the holdings for 4 weeks and 1 year previous. Ten cold-storage 
firms with 14 plants have cooperated with the Bureau in furnishing 
these data. Of these plants only two actually freeze fish or shellfish, 
le the rest are storage plants and receive their goods already 
rozen. 
As the salt-water market is separate from the fresh-water market, 
the prices for the two are included in different sections of the report. 
Managers and salesmen of the various firms are interviewed daily to 
obtain the day’s wholesale price quotations for the various kinds of 
‘fish and shellfish. Prices usually are accompanied by essential 
qualifying descriptions of the commodity, such as size and quality 
of ue product, locality of capture, gear used, and size and type of 
ackage. 
: At the same time that quotations are being gathered in the salt- 
water market, a record of the receipts of each firm is obtained. These 
are compiled and, on the following day, these records furnish the basis 
for the section of the report showing the total quantity of each species 
received by States and Canadian Provinces. The record of the re- 
ceipts of each firm also shows the method of transportation into the 
market area. In 1939 a summary making use of this information 
will be compiled for the salt-water market. This summary will classi- 
fy receipts by origin and by method of transportation, such as truck, 
express, rail freight, coastwise vessel, and fishing craft. 
For the 6 months from March through August 1938, the salt- 
water market received 79,686,000 pounds of fish; excluding imports 
and receipts of filleters and some hotel-supply houses. Receipts of 
shellfish, 22 species in all, are not included in the above figure. The 
largest poundage arrived by motortruck, accounting for 40 percent of 
the total. Fishing craft landings were next with 27 percent. Rail 
freight and rail express followed, with 23 percent and 9 percent, respec- 
tively. Coastwise vessels carried only one-half of 1 percent of the 
total. Seventy-six different species of fish were received. 
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