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larger cities. These latter dealers in turn resell to retailers and 

 consumers iu their respective cities and to those in close proximity. 

 In most instances the shipments moved from Jacksonville by freight 

 in car lots are forwarded to points in the more remote States, 



Table 4. — Fresh and frozen fishery products distributed by Jacksonville wholesale 



fish dealers during 1926 



State 



New York 



Georgia 



Florida 



Pennsylvania 



Missouri 



Alabama 



Ohio 



District of Columbia 



North Carolina 



Virginia.- 



Maryland 



South Carolina 



State 



Tennessee . 

 Michigan - - 



Illinois 



Kentucky . 

 Louisiana.. 

 Arkansas.. 



Indiana 



Oklahoma . 

 All other . . . 



Total 



Pounds 



188,000 

 102,000 

 101,000 

 64,000 

 34,000 

 30,000 

 26,000 

 25,000 

 » 45, 000 



5, 724, 000 



Per cent 

 of total 



3.3 

 1.8 

 1.8 

 1.2 

 .6 

 .5 

 .5 

 .4 



1 Includes fishery products distributed to Mississippi, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Canada, and 

 Wisconsin, named in order of importance. 



Reshipment by species. — The leading varieties of fishery products 

 reshipped are those that originated in the State of Florida. Mullet 

 ranked first, with 1,370,000 pounds; Spanish mackerel second, with 

 662,000 pounds; squeteagues or "sea trout" third, with 654,000 

 pounds; fresh-water bream fourth, with 372,000 pounds; and shrimp 

 fifth, with 340,000 pounds. Twenty-six other fishery products, 

 amounting to 2,326,000 pounds, also were reshipped. 



Table 5. — Fresh and frozen fishery products distributed by Jacksonville wholesale 



fish dealers during 1926 



Product 



Mullet 



Spanish mackerel.. 



Sea trout.. 



Bream, fresh-water 



Shrimp 



Red snapper 



King mackerel 



Croaker 



Catfish 



Black bass 



Red drum _ _ _ 



Crappie, "perch". 

 Herring 



Product 



Bluefish 



Pompano 



Snook 



Shad 



King whiting 



Bream, salt-water 



Sheepshead, salt-water 



Oysters 



Spiny lobster 



All other. 



Total 



Pounds 



84,000 

 82,000 

 82,000 

 77,000 

 71,000 

 62,000 

 32,000 

 31,000 

 22,000 

 '71,000 



5, 724, 000 



Per cent 

 of total 



1.5 

 1.4 

 1.4 

 1.3 

 1.2 

 1.1 

 .6 

 .5 

 .4 

 1.2 



' Includes quantities of the following products named in order of importance: Blue runner, permit, 

 grouper, hickory shad, crevalle, mangrove snapper, black drum, turtle meat, and spot. 



Form in which fish are received and reshipped. — The form in which 

 the various fishery products are received in Jacksonville is shown in 

 Tables 6, 7, and 8. Except for parchment-wrapped fillets of haddock 

 and unwrapped skinned catfish, the majority of the products are 

 received in the round or viscerated. Reshipments are made in the 

 same form in which they are received. Dealers in fishery products in 



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