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estimated to be valued at $8,000,000, representing an increase of 

 4 percent in quantity and 14 percent in the estimated value. The 

 output of fresh and frozen packaged fish and shellfish amounted to 

 129,608,000 pounds, valued at $17,294,000, and cured fish, 104,310,000 

 pounds, valued at $12,823,000. It is estimated that about 500,000,000 

 pounds of fresh fisliery products (excluding packaged fish and shell- 

 fish), valued at about $40,000,000, were marketed during 1933. The 

 total marketed value to domestic primary handlers of all fishery 

 products in 1933 is estimated at about $155,000,000. 



Imports of fishery products for consumption in the calendar year 

 1933 were valued at $30,462,000, which is 3 percent more than in the 

 previous year, while exports of fishery products were valued at 

 $8,339,000, or 7 percent more than in 1932. 



FISHERY ADVISORY COMMITTEE 



During the year the Secretary of Commerce appointed a Fishery 

 Advisory Committee, representing various branches of the fishing 

 industry, various geographical sections of the country, and related 

 interests including science, medicine, and transportation, for the 

 purpose of considering fishery problems from a national standpoint 

 and offering recommendations for promotion and development. 



The first meeting was held on May 6 under the chairmanship of 

 Bernarr MacFadden and various subcommittees were appointed to 

 give detailed study and to later report on specific fields. Committees 

 were appointed on the protection of migratory fish, on game fish, 

 on the relation of the fisheries to other water uses, and on scientific 

 research. Committees were also appointed on food standards, on 

 marketing and distribution, on international trade, and on education 

 and publicity. All of these committees presented preliminary 

 reports and drafted a program of future activities to be the subject 

 of reports at the fall meeting in 1935. 



EFFECTUATING A BETTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 

 COMMERCIAL AND SPORT FISHERMEN 



From time to time considerable animosity has existed between 

 commercial and sport fishermen. At times the sport fishermen have 

 accused the commercial fishermen of depleting certain fisheries while, 

 on the other hand, the commercial fishermen have censured the sport 

 fishermen for trying to take away their means of livelihood. This, 

 no doubt, has led to the enactment of some legislation parading 

 under the guise of " conservation ", which in some cases has resulted 

 only in transferring the fishery problems from the hands of one group 

 to another. For this reason there is a need for greater amity between 

 these two groups, to the end that our great natural fishery resources 

 will be prosecuted wisely. It is important that both groups give 

 coordinated consideration to measures intended to sustain our fish 

 supply. During the past year headwa}'' w^as made in this direction. 



Members of the National Fishery Code Authority, representing the 

 commercial fisheries, met with members of the National Planning 

 Council of State Fish and Game Connnissioners at the council's 

 meeting at Montreal in September 1934. At this meeting various 

 common problems facing the fisheries were discussed and the ground- 



