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These items were moderate in demand and the market remained fairly steady. 
The remaining varieties, especially roughfish, moved slowly for the most part 
and prices were generally low. 
Receipts of new fresh-water species for 24 hours ending at 8 a. m., Tuesday, 
amounted to 128,000 pounds. ‘Trucks transported 65,000 and rail expr ess 63, 000 
pounds. Indiv idual supplies of the more important varieties, and the market 
trend, were as follows: Carp, 12,000 pounds, 2 to 2% cents, liberal supplies com- 
bined with a heavy carry-over from Monday kept ‘the market price in a low or 
depressed condition. Lake herring, 15,000 pounds, 6 to 7, some 8 cents, supplies 
increased somewhat in comparison with the past week. Prices were moderate 
though evidencing a downward tendency. Lake trout, 35,000 pounds, 17 to 19 
cents, supplies liberai, demand fair, prices remaining steady within the moderate 
range. Sheepshead, 7, 000 pounds, 3 to 3% cents, supplies plentiful for demand 
which was rather light. Prices remained low for hard meats and semi. Suckers, 
3,000 pounds, 3 to 4 cents, supplies moderate to light, demand light and market 
prices low. White bass, 4,000 pounds, 7 to 744 cents, supplies liberal, demand 
light and prices low. Whitefish, 8,000 pounds, pound net 18 to 20 cents, some at 
21 to 22 cents, gill net 17 to 19 cents, supplies moderate, demand fair, prices 
remaining steady within the moderate to low range. Yellow pike, 9,000 pounds, 
12 to 13 cents, demand rather light with prices remaining fairly steady. 
The local cold-storage warehouses reported on Monday, May 27, a moderate 
movement taking place. Approximately 13,000 pounds were frozen, consisting 
largely of 9,000 pounds of blue and sauger pike; 1,000 pounds each of lake herring 
and sturgeon, and lesser amounts of fillets, lake trout, and pickerel. Approxi- 
mately 9,000 pounds were withdrawn from the warehouses, consisting mainly of 
4,000 pounds of whitefish, 2,000 pounds of Jake herring, and 1,000 pounds of lake 
trout. 
Arrangements are now being made not only for market news 
broadcasts in the other cities where the Division maintains Fishery 
Market News offices, but also for the conduct of broadcasts to acquaint 
the general public with information of assistance in buying fish and 
shellfish, and on the nutritional value of these commodities. 
The activities of each of the Division’s Fishery Market News 
offices are here discussed in greater detail. 
NEW YORK, N. Y. 
The release of reports from the New York office of the Fishery 
Market News Service was continued during 1939 on a daily basis, 
with the exception of Sunday and holidays. There were no major 
changes in the form of these reports from those prepared and dissemi- 
nated in the preceding year; however, the coverage of firms reporting 
their daily receipts to the Market News office has been expanded to 
include most of the hotel supply firms, as well as a majority of the 
local filleting companies. It also was found possible, through a 
detailed study of the office procedures, to further simplify certain of 
the practices and effect greater efficiency and speed, which are essential 
to a Market News office. 
Persons in the fishery and allied industries in the vicinity of New 
York and elsewhere are placing more and more dependence upon this 
office as a source of market and other fisheries information. Not only 
has the mailing list for the daily reports continued to grow, but 
inquiries by telephone, mail, and by personal visit continue to increase. 
Persons from the fishery industry i in particular avail themselves of the 
opportunity of making personal contacts with this office; however, 
other callers conferring with the New York staff for information 
essential to their activities include representatives of transportation 
agencies; food editors of publications; editors of trade and industrial 
magazines: press associations; foreign fishery experts, editors and 
