430 



U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Holdings of frozen fish in the United States in 1927, and a o-ijear average, 1922 to 



1926— Continued 



[Expressed in tftousands of pounds; that is, 000 omitted] 



Species 



Bluefish (all trade sizes)... _ 



Butterfish (all trade sizes) 



Catfish 



Cisco (Lake Erie) 



Cisco (lake herring), including bluefin, 



blackfln, and chub 



Cisco (tullibees, Canadian Lakes) 



Cod,iiaddock, hake, pollock 



Croaker 



Flounders 



Halibut (all trade sizes) 



Herring, sea (including alewives and blue- 

 backs) 



Lake trout 



Mackerel (except Spanish) 



Pike: 



Blue and sauger 



Yellow or wall-eyed 



Pike (including pickerel, jacks, and yellow 



jack) 



Sablefish (black cod) . 



Salmon: 



Chinook 



Silver 



Fall and pink... 



Steelhead trout 



All other 



Scup (porgies) 



Shad and shad roe 



Shellfish... 



Smelts, eulachon, etc 



Squid 



Sturgeon and spoonbill cat 



Suckers ■ 



Weakflsh (including southern "sea trout") 



Whitefish 



Whiting 



Miscellaneous frozen fish 



Total frozen fish 



5-year average, 1922-1926 



Month ended — 



July 15 Aug. 15 Sept. 15 I Oct. 15 Nov. 15 Dec. 15 



316 

 280 

 236 

 188 



627 

 1,110 

 1,207 

 1,442 



667 

 9,019 



2,627 



606 



4,708 



511 

 200 



1,027 

 492 



1,193 



1,110 



165 



195 



1,692 



351 



569 



632 



485 



1,077 



1,109 



46 



633 



702 



2,620 



4,274 



42, 116 

 34, 988 



275 

 433 

 318 

 279 



1,496 

 1,009 

 1,348 

 2,109 

 707 

 12, 233 



2,769 



818 



6,383 



297 

 177 



975 



1,645 



1,678 



346 



547 



1, .562 



380 



607 



772 



474 



1,447 



1,069 



52 



928 



740 



4,445 



.5, 137 



343 

 522 

 339 



448 



2,244 

 1,017 

 1,950 

 1,780 

 . 669 

 13, 990 



3,082 



977 



6,279 



222 

 194 



863 

 1,315 



1,788 



2,314 



462 i 



749 



1,721 



404 



580 



981 



459 



1,425 



1,248 



45 



914 



718 



4,713 



5,573 



358 

 703 

 404 

 865 



2,138 



962 



2,695 



1,615 



800 



14, 114 



3,982 

 1,292 

 5,621 



199 

 177 



1,050 

 2,329 



2,049 



3,542 



530 



801 



2, 029 



480 



564 



1,296 



4.34 



1, ,531 



1,239 



55 



1,105 



592 



4,461 



4,946 



54,063 

 45, 092 



60, 328 

 54, 216 



65, 958 

 62,611 



337 

 .591 

 395 

 654 



2,490 

 962 

 2, 303 

 1,272 

 778 

 13, 585 



4,106 

 2,079 

 4,710 



575 

 205 



1, 239 



2,882 



1,722 

 3,428 

 1,177 



589 

 2,004 



452 



540 

 1, 666 



358 



1, 465 



1,241 



93 



1.163 



891 

 4,620 

 6, 219 



304 

 437 

 353 



751 



3, 720 

 1,157 

 1,800 

 1,001 

 678 

 13,031 



4,124 

 1,975 

 3,616 



652 

 292 



922 

 2.571 



1,358 

 3,241 

 1,161 



405 

 2,024 



384 



534 

 2,110 



252 

 1,394 

 1,420 

 89 

 1,009 

 1,104 

 3,980 

 6,939 



66, 791 

 65, 052 



64, 788 

 61, 839 



FOREIGN FISHERY TRADE 



The foreign trade in jfishery products of the United States during 

 1927 amounted to $74,350,515, of which $55,633,612 represents the 

 vahie of those imported for consumption and $18,716,903 the vahie of 

 exports of domestic fishery products. Compared with the previous 

 year, this is an increase of 6 per cent in total trade, an increase of 1 1 per 

 cent in the value of fishery products imported for consumption, and 

 a decrease of 8 per cent in the value of the exports of domestic fishery 

 products. 



Imports consisted of 311,857,599 pounds of edible products (includ- 

 ing fresh, frozen, cured, and canned fish), valued at $34,854,246, and 

 nonedible products (comprised mainly of fish and marine-animal oils, 

 pearls, and imitation pearls), valued at $20,779,366. Compared with 

 1926, this is an increase of 1 per cent in the quantity and 7 per cent 

 in the value of edible products imported and an increase of 18 per cent 

 in the value of nonedible products imported. The increase in the 

 quantity and value of the edible products imported was due chiefly 

 to large imports of cured fish and canned shellfish. Other edible 

 gi'oups showed little change from a year ago. The increase in the 

 value of nonedible products imported is due almost entirely to the 



