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area while the remaining plants storing frozen fish are widely scat- 
tered. Fishing vessels discharge their fares at one of several piers 
extending into the Hast River. The catch usually is barreled or boxed 
on the pier for trucking to the dealer’s stand or for immediate ship- 
ment. 
On the site of a market building which collapsed into the East River 
in 1936, a modern structure has been erected by the city and leased 
to an organization of the wholesale dealers. It contains well-designed 
stands on the ground floor with ample office space and dressing rooms 
above, and is supplemented by a large parking area in front and a 
receiving platform and bulkhead dock in the rear. Providing many 
advantages over the older types, the new market building was opened 
in June 1939. The Fishery Market News Service office is located in a 
building on the edge of the market area. 
The operations of the Fishery Market News Service office in New 
York City during 1938 were carried on and the daily report issued 
under the supervision of W. H. Dumont, Senior Fisheries Marketing 
Agent, assisted by E. C. Hinsdale, Fisheries Marketing Agent (trans- 
ferred to Chicago during the year), F. J. Anderson, and W. D. Glidden, 
Jr., Junior Fisheries Marketing Agents, and Joseph Pileggi and Peter 
DiMarco, Senior and Junior Clerk-Stenographers, respectively. 
BOSTON, MASS. 
The first issue of the Boston Fishery Market News Report was re- 
leased on May 26, 1938. It covers the daily activities of this im- 
portant fishing port in considerable detail. Hailing fares of the off- 
shore and inshore fleets landing at Boston Fish Pier—otter trawlers, 
draggers, line trawlers, hand liners, gill netters, purse seiners, and 
harpooners—are listed in one large table, which also includes the first 
sales prices of each species in the catch. To aid in the orderly mar- 
keting of Boston’s huge supply of fish much additional information is 
included. The current landings at other ports, both nearby and 
distant—Gloucester, New Bedford, and Provincetown, Mass.; Port- 
land and Rockland, Maine; New York, N. Y.; Seattle, Wash.; and 
Prince Rupert, B. C.—are received by telegraph and made available 
early each morning. Rail freight, rail express, and coastwise steam- 
ship arrivals are not only covered for the period since the preceding 
report, but a section for additional receipts includes shipments by 
rail and steamship, mostly fish and shellfish from Canada, due to 
arrive later in the day. Other daily compilations include imports of 
fishery products from all countries, prices paid to shippers of fishery 
products by dealers on the pier, and the movement of over 30 fishery 
commodities into and out of cold storage. Weekly, comparative 
holdings are published for the current and preceding weeks and for 4 
weeks and 1 year previous. In order to be of the greatest aid to the 
industry, the daily report is completed and delivered to the dealers on 
and in the vicinity of the pier each forenoon and, for delivery outside 
Boston, is placed in the mail at noon. 
Boston is primarily a production center, supplying enormous 
quantities of fresh and frozen fishery products to the Nation. It is 
well situated with the natural advantages of an excellent harbor and 
nearness to both producing and marketing areas. It also has good 
handling and shipping facilities. 

