FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1933 



47 



FROZEN FISH TRADE ^ 



FISH FROZEN 



In 1032 the freezing: plants in the Ignited States and Alaska, report- 

 ing their activities to the Government, packed 92,471,545 ])oiinds of 

 frozen fishery products. These products at the time they were held 

 in cold-storajre ])lants were estimated to be valued at $7,000,000. 

 Compared with the pack in 1931, this is a decrease of IS percent. 

 Over 65 ])ercent of the pack consisted of six species or (i:roups of fishery 

 products. Of first importance was mackerel, with 17 percent of the 

 total. Of next importance was the cod, haddock, haddock fillets, 

 hake, and pollock group, with 16 percent of the total. Haddock 

 fillets accounted for the bulk of the volume of this group. Salmon 

 made up 12 percent of the total; halibut, 10 percent; whiting, 6 per- 

 cent; and shellfish, 4 percent. Considerable quantities of sea herring, 

 squid, croaker, cisco or lake herring, smelts, and weakfish, including 

 southern "sea trout", also were frozen. Frozen squid and sea herring 

 are marketed primarily for bait, although quantities of each are used 

 for human consumption. 



Production of frozen fishery products, 1932 

 BY SPECIES AND MONTHS 



Species 



Blueflsh (all trade sizes) 



Butterfish (all trade sizes) 



Catfish 



Cisco (Lake Erie) 



Cisco (lake herring), including blue- 

 fin, blackfin, and chub 



Cisco (tuUibees, Canadian lakes) 



Cod, haddock, hake, and pollock 



Croaker 



Flounders 



Haddock fillets 



Halibut (all trade sizes) 



Herring, sea (including alewives and 



bluebacks) 



Lake trout 



Mackerel (except Spani.sh) 



Pike, blue and sauger 



Pike, yellow or wall-eyed 



Pike (including pickerel, jacks, and 



yellow jack) 



Sableflsh (black cod) 



Salmon, chinook or king 



Salmon, silver or coho 



Salmon, fall and pink 



Salmon, steelhead trout 



Salmon, red or sockeye ' 



Scup (porgies) 



Shad and shad roe 



Shellfish 



Smelts, eulachon, etc - 



Squid 



Sturgeon and spoonbill cat 



Suckers 



Weakfish (including southern "sea 



trout") 



Whitefl.sh. 



Whiting. , 



-Miscellaneous fish 



Total. 



Month ended the 15th of- 



January Iry'^' March April May June 



Pounds 

 10, 159 

 12, 725 

 12, 

 69, 202 



66, 425 



59, 159 

 252, 490 



19, 224 



18, ' 

 797, 402 

 333, 



47, 125 

 127,501 

 42, 571 

 65, 120 



70, (V 

 36,4! 



1,000 

 32, 098 

 90,390 



60,634 



2, 516 



59, 905 



372,114 



216, 136 



7,520 



2, 



655 



31,516 

 60,604 

 56,543 

 845,294 



Pounds 

 13, 77: 

 10, 289 

 29, 277 



1,821 

 42, 488 

 140, 950 

 11,758 

 34, 393 

 603, 564 

 204, 335 



116,543 



28, 252 



155, 044 



1,730 



79, 702 



22,841 



4,352 



29, 366 



22, 268 



184 



81, 139 



1,148 



34, 369 



289,064 



382, 228 



15,855 



4,105 



100 



36, 775 

 40, 577 

 105, 814 

 620, 274 



72,991 



Pounds 



4,8* 



9,78! 



6,239 



183 



15, 105 

 36,310 

 116, 

 7.918 

 8,219 

 268, 068 

 764, ' 



123, 245 

 18,000 



126,437 

 10, 553 

 43, 765 



27,714 

 17,707 

 113,811 

 477,513 



Pounds 

 13, 194 

 45, 212 

 27, 572 

 12, 



19, 997 



9,423 



242, 860 



6, 678 



9,401 



'., 499, 030 



561,014 



183, 108 

 22, 379 

 84, 438 



128, 068 

 9,817 



12, 082 



13, 731 

 5,458 

 9, 

 6,265 



26, 761 

 59, 957 



575 



5,315 



940 



2,308 

 38, 307 

 11,800 

 689, 915 



Pounds 

 5,128 

 62, 369 

 34, 081 

 8,200 



71,22 

 12,813 



161, 508 

 258, 945 



56, 647 

 1, 582, 

 1,729,962 



1, 038, 274 

 46, 999 



1, 014, 754 

 236, 849 

 20, 053 



25, 239 



58, 461 



67, 865 



46, 840 



12,478 



12,910 



184, 236 



1,910 



36, 108 



215, 643 



3,558 



902, 540 



23,704 



7,381 



180, 101 

 19,188 



162, 787 

 992, 674 



2, 896, 170 3, 846, 050 9, 293, 514 



Pounds 



27, 432 



162, 540 



14, 543 



4,132 



56, 



6,746 

 149, 865 



62, 980 

 125,951 

 913,915 

 508, 109 



345, 059 

 32, 956 

 954,341 

 273, 623 

 13, 339 



64,916 



54,400 



2,620,616 



909,313 



15, 



74. 



480, 



15, 



6. 



1, 



451, 



159, 



60, 



280, 



2, 



1,376. 



10, 272, 423 



July 



Pounds 

 27,703 

 209,848 

 27,946 

 18,401 



98, 710 



3,795 



203, 384 



60, 347 



21,917 



1, 073, 454 



1, 362, 245 



72,703 

 42,466 

 2, 961, 879 

 31,992 

 6,943 



11,686 

 182, 843 

 707, 281 

 158, 390 

 1,577 



92,458 

 139, 438 



15, 963 



47.041 

 260, 994 



13, 420 

 252, 539 



18,788 

 2,220 



136, 875 



259, 522 



1, 828, 796 



770, 467 



1,124,031 



' Prior to July 15, 1932, this item was listed as " Salmon, all other " and may have included species properly 

 classified in one of the other groups of salmon. 



» The stitislics in this section have been furnished by the Bureau i 

 of .\.griciillure. 



Agricultural Economics, Department 



