FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1927^ 



By 



Oscar E. Sette 



Assistant in Charge, Division of Fishery Industries 



and 



R. H. Fiedler 



Administrative Assistant, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



Page [ Page 



Foreword 401 Fisheriesof the Middle Atlantic States— Con. 



I New Jersey 475 



Parti. — Operations of the Division Pennsylvania 480 



Delaware.- 484 



Collection of statistics.-- 402 : Historical review 487 



Tectinological investigations 404 Shad of the Hudson River 492 



Market surveys 407 , Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay ttt-tes 493 



Publications of the division 411 | Shad and alewife of the Potomac KiV(>r 494 



I Products received at municipal fish wharf 



Part 2. — Fishery Statistics and market, Washington, D. C 495 



Review 411 I Fisheries of the South Atlantic States 497 



Canned fishery products and by-products 414 Fisheries of the Gulf States.. 498 



Canned products 416 Florida sponges 498 



By-products 425 j Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 499 



Frozen-fish trade 428 ; General statistics 499 



Foreign fishery trade 430 Washington 500 



Cod fishery on the east coast of North America- 434 i Oregon 500 



Mackerel fishery on the east coast of the | California 501 



United States 434 '• Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash.. 530 



Fisheries of the New England States 435 | Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast 5.32 



Vessel fisheries at principal New England ; Lake fisheries 634 



ports.- 436 [ General statistics 535 



Fisheries of the Middle -Atlantic States. 461 Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 



General statistics 462 i taries 544 



Menhaden industry 467 I Lake Pepin and Lake Keokuk 544 



New York 468 I Fisheries of Alaska 547 



FOREWORD 



This report constitutes a yearbook on fishery statistics of the United 

 States as well as a summary of activities of the division of fishery 

 industries. As its name indicates, this division of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries is concerned with the activities and welfare of the fishery 

 industries, including the commercial fisheries, the trade in fishery 

 products, and the fish canning and preserving industries. Its func- 

 tions are the collection and publication of fishery statistics, the prose- 

 cution of research designed to solve the technical problems of the 

 industry, and the dissemination of authoritative and practical informa- 

 tion to the fishery industries and the public. Results of technological 

 investigations and marketing studies are published in separate docu- 

 ments as each project is completed. The information obtained from 

 statistical surveys is published in part 2 of this report, which includes 

 all the detailed statistical information that has become available since 



'Appendix IX to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1928. Bureau of Fisheries 

 Doc. No. 1050. 



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