202 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
students; research students; representatives of other Federal agencies; 
and agents of city, State, and foreign governments. 
During 1939 over 261 million pounds of fresh and frozen fishery 
products were received in New York. Wholesale dealers in fish and 
shellfish on the New York Salt-water Market reported to the New 
York Market News office receipts totaling 228,293,000 pounds, includ- 
ing incomplete data from filleting and hotel supply firms. In addition, 
imports received by steamship and entered at New York City amounted 
to 7,711,000 pounds. Detailed records covering the volume of fresh- 
water fishery products received at Peck Slip are not available, but it 
is estimated that these receipts totaled about 25 million pounds. 
Of the fishery products received at the Salt-water Market, 219,607,- 
000 pounds, or 96 percent, were shipped from domestic sources com- 
prising 27 States and Alaska. The remaining 4 percent consisted of 
imports, not entered at New York City, from 6 Provinces of Canada 
and Newfoundland. 
Of the Salt-water Market receipts, 122,867,000 pounds, or 54 per- 
cent, were transported by truck. Over 21 percent came by freight, 
18 percent was landed by fishing craft, 6 percent arrived by express, 
and less than one-half of 1 percent by coastwise vessels. Domestic 
shipments were distributed almost exactly in the same manner as the 
total shipments. The fishery products from Canada and Newfound- 
land, however, arrived almost exclusively by rail; freight shipments 
constituting 55 percent and express 44 percent. 
Massachusetts, with 57,381,000 pounds, or 25 percent, was the 
shipper of the greatest volume of fishery products to the Salt-water 
Market from a single geographical area, well over one-half being 
shipped by freight and most of the balance by truck. New York 
State was the second largest supplier, its shipments, practically all by 
truck, amounting to 22 percent. Fishing craft docking directly at 
the Salt-water Market were next, landing 18 percent. Following in 
order were New Jersey, with 7 percent; Florida, 4 percent; and Con- 
necticut and North Carolina, each 3 percent. 
Salt-water fish constituted 159,332,000 pounds, or 70 percent, of the 
total salt-water market receipts. Slightly less than one-half arrived 
by truck, the remainder being about equally divided between freight 
shipments and fishing-craft landings. 
Of the salt-water fish, flounders—including blackbacks, dabs, gray 
sole, fluke, lemon sole, and yellowtails—were received in the greatest 
volume, 39,197,000 pounds, or 25 percent. One-half was shipped by 
truck and one-third by freight. Cod, with 20,186,000 pounds, or 13 
percent, followed, the bulk arriving by freight. Next were haddock, 
9 percent, mainly fishing-craft landings; mackerel, 7 percent, mostly 
truck receipts; and butterfish and scup, each 6 percent, largely truck 
receipts and fishing-craft landings. 
Shellfish and miscellaneous fishery products accounted for most of 
the remaining 68,582,000 pounds, or 30 percent, four-fifths arriving at 
the Salt-water Market by truck. Hard clams in the shell, totaling 
23,589,000 pounds, formed 34 percent of these products, and practi- 
cally all the clams were transported by truck. The next most 
important shellfish items were shrimp, 22 percent, the bulk arriving 
by truck, and oysters in the shell, 13 percent, almost entirely truck 
receipts. 
