FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1939 330 
SALES OF FISHERY PRODUCTS THROUGH THE NEW ENGLAND FISH EXCHANGE, 
BOSTON, MASS. 
Fishery products landed at the Boston Fish Pier and sold through 
the New England Fish Exchange in Boston during 1939 aggregated 
274,983,112 pounds. Sales through the Exchange reached a peak of 
27,760,726 pounds in May, and their lowest level of 17,512,586 pounds 
in January. ‘The average price for sales of all species of fish through 
the Exchange during 1939 amounted to $2.79 per hundred pounds; 
the highest average price being $3.34 per hundred pounds in October 
and the lowest $2.05 in May. 
The data covering sales through the New England Fish Exchange 
are collected through the Division’s Fishery Market News Service 
and the figures vary from those shown for Boston in the section of this 
report entitled ‘‘Vessel Fisheries at the Principal New England Ports.” 
The reason for this variation is that sales through the New England 
Fish Exchange include craft smaller than vessels, that is, craft of less 
than five net tons capacity, and further do not include landings 
elsewhere in Boston which are not sold through the Exchange. 
