FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1932^ 



By R. H. Fiedler 

 Chief, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



Foreword 149 



Part 1. Operations of the Division 



Collection of statistics 150 



Statistical areas 151 



Technological investigations 152 



Research associate 152 



Laboratories 152 



Nutritive value of marine products 153 



Salmon-liver oil 153 



Antianemic properties of oysters 153 



Kelp-meal experiments 154 



Preservation of fishery products for food. 154 

 Improved methods for handling fresh 



and frozen fish.._ 154 



Improved methods for smoking fish . 155 



Bacteriological studies 155 



Preservation of fishery byproducts 155 



Improved methods for manufacturing 



fish meal from nonoily fish waste.- 155 



Development of fish flour 156 



Haddock-liver oil 156 



Xet preservation 157 



Measurement of mesh size of fishing nets. 158 



Red snapper fishery and industry 158 



Market and industrial surveys 158 



Acjuatic shell industries 158 



Establishing marketing grades for fish. . . 159 



Fishery byproducts industries of Maine. 159 



Publications of the Division 160 



Documents, reports, and circulars 161 



Special articles 161 



Statistical bulletins 162 



Part 2. Fishery Statistics, 1931 



General review ^ 163 



Manufactured fishery products 176 



Fisheries of the New England States 180 



Maine 190 



New Hampshire 195 



Massachusetts. 196 



Rhode Island... 203 



Connecticut 208 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States 213 



New York 220 



New Jersey 231 



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 Part 2. Fishery Statistics, 1931— Contd. 



Fisheriesoftlie Middle Atlantic States— Con. 



Pennsylvania 240 



Delaware 241 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States 245 



Maryland 249 



Virginia 256 



Fisheries of the South Atlantic and Gulf 



States 265 



North Carolina 27S 



South Carolina 284 



Georgia 286 



Florida 290 



Alabama 306 



Mississippi 308 



Louisiana 311 



Texas 315 



Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 319 



Washington.. 326 



Oregon 331 



California 334 



Lake fisheries 349 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries 376 



Alabama 392 



Arkansas 393 



Illinois 400 



Indiana 405 



Iowa 409 



Kansas.. 412 



Kentucky 413 



Louisiana 415 



Minnesota 423 



Mississippi- 427 



Missouri-- --- 430 



Nebraska 434 



Ohio - 434 



Oklahoma - 436 



South Dakota 438 



Tennessee 439 



Texas 442 



Wisconsin-- --- 444 



Lake Pepin --- 447 



Lake Keokuk -. 448 



Mississippi River between Lake Pepin 



and Lake Keokuk.. 448 



Statistical survey procedure 449 



FOREWORD 



This report constitutes a summary of the activities of the Division 

 of Fishery Industries as well as an annual review on fishery statistics 

 of the United States. As its name indicates, this Division of the 

 Bureau 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 include the collection and publication of fishery statistics, the 

 conducting of market surveys, the prosecution of research designed 



' .\ppendix III to the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries, 1933. Approved for publication 

 May 8. 1933. 



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