FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1939 203 
Receipts of fresh-water fish at the Salt-water Market were negligible; 
carp, the largest quantity as well as the most important species, 
arriving mainly by express. 
Of the 7,711,000 pounds of imported fishery products received by 
steamship and entered at New York City, 3,914,000 pounds, or 51 
percent, were classified as fish, and the remainder as shellfish and 
miscellaneous products. Sixty-one percent of the fish was frozen 
swordfish from Japan. Frozen sturgeon, 8 percent, mostly from 
Russia, and frozen smelt, 7 percent, largely from Newfoundland, were 
the next most important items. 
Of the shellfish and miscellaneous fishery products, frozen spiny 
lobster tails, almost exclusively from the Union of South Africa, 
amounted to 37 percent. Next in importance were snails, 20 percent, 
mainly from Morocco, and frozen pulpi, 15 percent, mostly from 
Portugal. 
Japan supplied 2,801,000 pounds, or 36 percent, of all the imports; 
about 90 percent of which were frozen swordfish. Imports from 
Portugal accounted fer 10 percent, mostly frozen pulpi and. frozen 
sepia. Morocco sent 9 percent, all snails; and Russia 7 percent, 
largely frozen sturgeon and frozen salmon. 
The operations of the Fishery Market News office in New York 
City during 1939 were carried on and the daily report issued under the 
supervision of Wm. H. Dumont, Senior Fisheries Marketing Agent, 
assisted by F. J. Anderson, W. D. Glidden, Jr., and C. W. Morrison, 
Junior Statistical and Marketing Agents, Joseph Pileggi, Assistant 
Clerk, and Peter DiMarco, Junior Clerk. 
BOSTON, MASS. 
The Fishery Market News Service at Boston has been augmented by 
several new features. These have included the addition of data in 
the daily reports on the range of prices of fish sold through the New 
England Fish Exchange; the wholesale prices of fillets of important 
species; the volume of fish livers landed by fishing craft each day; and 
the daily movements and weekly holdings of frozen fish at Gloucester. 
Monthly summaries of receipts and prices, together with appropriate 
comparisons with the preceding months, also were inaugurated during 
the year. Of outstanding importance also has been the cooperation 
of the Market News Service in Boston in supplying current news to 
station WHDH to augment its radio program relating to fisheries. 
Particularly is this radio service of interest to fishing craft at sea, 
since it furnishes them with the latest available information on sup- 
plies and prices and consequently gives them a basis on which to 
determine the most suitable time for landing their fares. 
As in the case of the Fishery Market News Service in New York, 
the service in Boston extends far beyond the release of its daily, 
monthly, and annual reports. Requests for specialized information 
available from this office are received daily by telephone, mail, and 
from individuals calling at the office. Visits to the office are con- 
venient for persons in Boston’s fishery industry, since the Fishery 
Market News office is located on Northern Avenue near the Fish Pier. 
Landings at the Boston Fish Pier sold through the New England 
Fish Exchange during 1939 amounted to nearly 275 million pounds, 
valued at about $7,700,000, which represented a decrease of 8 percent 
