312 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 
The choice of Boston for a Market News office was due to its 
importance as the center of New England’s valuable fisheries and 
as a port of landing for large quantities of fish. Thus, Boston is 
primarily an office for the reporting of production. 
Chicago is probably the most important inland market for fishery 
products. Much of the harvest of fresh-water fish from the Great 
Lakes and other interior waters is shipped to this city’s wholesale 
market for distribution. Chicago also receives large quantities of 
Eastern haddock and rosefish, Western halibut and salmon, Gulf 
coast shrimp and red snapper, and large quantities of Canadian 
fresh-water varieties. 
Seattle is of importance particularly as a landing port for the 
halibut fisheries of the Pacific Northwest. It also is of importance 
as a port of landing for salmon in the fresh and frozen fish trade 
and for other species common to the Pacific coast. 
Jacksonville is of importance as an assembling, distribution, and 
shipping center through which most of Florida’s fish pass when 
destined for northern markets. Consequently, market information 
emanating from this office is of greatest value to both northern and 
southern producers, shippers, and dealers. 
New Orleans is the largest centrally located city in the Gulf States, 
which are important in the production and distribution of many 
fishery commodities; particularly shrimp. Consequently, this city 
offers unusual facilities for the collection and dissemination of valu- 
able fishery market news data. 
Tn addition to the coverage of market news in these producing, con- 
suming, or distribution centers, the daily releases from each office 
are augmented by pertinent data telegraphed to it from the other 
offices, as well as from market news reporters located at important 
producing points along the coasts. 
During the past year the Market News Service has completed 
arrangements for the daily broadcasting of market news information 
from radio stations at Boston, Chicago, Jacksonville, and New 
Orleans, and is making arrangements for similar broadcasts in other 
cities. Periodic market news reports also are prepared and dissemi- 
nated from the Washington office. These include summarized data 
made available through the daily and monthly reports of the field 
offices as well as articles relating to the commercial fisheries and other 
related information. 
STATISTICAL INVESTIGATIONS 
The collection of fishery statistics was one of the earliest activities 
of the Bureau of Fisheries, and the supplying of these data has con- 
tinued to be a major function. Fishery statistics are collected to serve 
