MARKET SURVEY, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



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room for carrying on the present business and space for expansion; 

 and business should be conducted under the most sanitary conditions. 

 The Jacksonville wholesale fish market now fulfills many of these 

 requirements; it is on the water front, has rail communication, is 

 near consumer trade, has ample space for accomodation of the busi- 

 ness, and business is conducted in a sanitary manner. 



COLD-STORAGE FACILITIES 



There are two cold-storage and fish-freezing plants in Jacksonville. 

 One is privately and the other publicly operated. These are the only 

 plants in Florida that freeze fish, except two private plants at Pensa- 

 cola. The plants in Jacksonville are situated on railroad spur tracks 

 joining the main line where siding space is available for 12 freight 



Fig. 2.— Fish in cold storage, Jacksonville, Fla. 



cars at one time. The privately owned plant is near the foot of 

 Ocean Street, in the wholesale fish-trade section. The public plant is 

 about 2% miles from the wholesale section and about 3 miles from 

 express terminals. Fishery products can be air frozen at each plant, 

 while in addition the public plant has brine-freezing equipment. The 

 plants are equipped to freeze about 35,000 pounds of fish per day. 

 They can store about 1,800,000 pounds of frozen fishery products at 

 one time. If conditions warrant, this can be expanded to store about 

 4,000,000 pounds. Species frozen include mullet, croaker, Spanish 

 mackerel, pompano, sea trout, catfish, shrimp, and other varieties. 



While Jacksonville has fish-freezing and cold-storage facilities, com- 

 paratively little advantage is taken of them. On the other hand, 

 large quantities of Florida fish are shipped to northern markets and in 

 the absence of immediate sale are frozen there. This would indicate 



