FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1938 193 
livery. These trucking lines maintain daily schedules and extend as 
far west as Denver. A fleet of trucks carries express shipments from 
the pier to rail terminals. Much of the fish shipped to New York is 
transported in carlots on special freight trains operating on a fast 
schedule. 
There are about 90 wholesale fish establishments and manufac- 
turers of fishery products in Boston. They handle fresh and frozen 
fish and shellfish, and produce fillets, salted, smoked and canned fish, 
crab and lobster meat, cod-liver oil, glue, fish meal, and fish oil. In 
addition, there are a number of commission merchants who handle 
shipments of fish and shellfish to the Boston market. 
Boston is not only an important producing center, but it also offers 
a market for fish from other sections of the country. Receipts of 
salmon and halibut from the Pacific Coast; frozen swordfish from 
Japan; frozen shrimp from the Gulf; fresh-water fish from the Great 
Lakes and inland States; and large quantities of lobsters, other shell- 
fish, and fish from the Maritime Provinces of Canada and from New- 
foundland add to the supply of native varieties. 
The importance of Boston as a fishing port is emphasized by the 
amount of fish landed during the last 7 months in 1938, the period 
during which the Market News office operated. Landings totaled 
174,569,000 pounds, valued at $4,249,000, during this period. Had- 
dock accounted for 67,565,000 pounds, valued at $1,596,000, or 39 
percent of the total receipts and 38 percent of the total value. Cod 
followed with 40,173,000 pounds, valued at $873,000. This repre- 
sents 23 percent of the landings and 21 percent of the value. Rosefish 
(redfish) came next in poundage with 18,132,000 pounds, valued at 
$222,000, forming 10 percent of the catch and 5 percent of the value. 
Mackerel, with 11,545,000 pounds, valued at $386,000, made up 7 
percent of the receipts and 9 percent of the value. Species landed 
in lesser quantities included, in the order of their importance, pollock, 
flounders (blackbacks, dabs, gray sole, lemon sole, and yellowtails), 
whiting, hake, cusk, swordfish, halibut, and wolffish (catfish). 
The above totals do not include the fish landed and sold to dealers 
across the harbor on Atlantic Avenue; the quantity landed by under- 
tonnage boats; imports; nor the receipts of fish and shellfish by truck, 
rail express, rail freight, and coastwise vessels. 
Early in 1939 the Boston office began to release a monthly summary 
of the receipts and prices of a number of the more important species 
landed at the Fish Pier and sold through the New England Fish Ex- 
change. Thesummary is a daily compilation of the quantities landed, 
the first sales prices, and the average prices. A series of comparative 
figures for the current month, the preceding month, and the preceding 
year also are included. 
The activities of the Boston office and the issuance of the daily 
report and the monthly summary were under the supervision of B. E. 
Lindgren, Senior Fisheries Marketing Agent. He was assisted by 
C. W. Morrison, Junior Fisheries Marketing Agent, and J. J. O’Brien, 
Senior Clerk-stenographer. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
The Chicago Fishery Market News office, through a daily Fishery 
Products Report and a monthly summary of wholesale receipts, 
records the receipts, prices, and similar valuable information con- 
