FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1934 



By R. H. Fiedler, Chief, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



Foreword. 



Page 

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Part 1. — Operations of the Division 



Cooperation with other Federal agencies 76 



Cooperation with State agencies 77 



Exhibit at" A Century of Process" 78 



MarketinR investisiations 78 



Market survey in southeastern States 79 



Per capita oonsumption of fish 80 



Statistical investigations 80 



RioloRical aspect 80 



Economic aspect 81 



Surveys conducted 81 



Technological investigations 82 



Laboratories 82 



Preservation of fishery products for food 83 



Handling fresh mackerel 83 



Storage of frozen mackerel 83 



Smoked mackerel and storage of this 



product 84 



Shrinkage of fresh fish packed in ice 84 



Determinations for the relative freshness 



offish 85 



Canning aquatic foods 85 



Bacteriological investigations 86 



Disinfectants for sponges 86 



Preservation of fishery byproducts 87 



Technological investigations— Con. 

 Preservation of fishery byi)roducts— Con. 



Utilization of salmon cannery waste 



Effect of manufacture on the quality of 



nonoily fish meals... 



Studies of the drying of nonoily fish waste- 

 Utilization of swordfish livers 



Haddock-liver oil 



Nutritive value of aquatic products 



Swordfish-liver oil.. 



Salmon oil 



Horse mackerel-liver oil 



Crab meat — . 



Sodium alginate. 



Conch meat 



Mineral constituents of fishery products 



and byproducts 



Fish cookery investigations 



Research associates and student assistants. 



Educational and consulting services 



Publications of the division 



Documents, reports, and circulars 



Special articles and addresses 



Statistical bulletins 



Part ?.— Fiihery statistics, 193S 



General review... 97 



Manufactured fishery products Ill 



Canned fishery products and byproducts 



trade 115 



Friizen-fish trade 123 



Fish frozen 123 



Holdings 120 



Cold-storage holdings of cured fish... 128 



Foreign fishery trade 128 



Fisheries of the New England States 132 



Maine 141 



New Hampshire 147 



Miissachusetts 147 



Hhode Island 155 



Connecticut IfiO 



Vessel fisheries at principal New England 165 



ports... 



Economic aspect. 165 



Biological aspect 173 



\rackerel fishery of the Atlantic coast 184 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States 186 



Xew York 194 



New Jersey... 202 



Pennsylvania 213 



Delaware 214 



Vessel fisheries at New York City 218 



Shad fishery of the Hudson River 219 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States 219 



Maryland 224 



Virginia... 230 



Winter trawl fishery off New Jersey, Mary- 

 land, Virginia, and North Carolina 241 



-Con- 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States- 

 tinued 

 Shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac 



River.. 



Trade in fishery products in Washington, 



D. C... 



Fisheries of the South Atlantic and Oulf 



States 



Sponges sold at the exchange, Tarpon 



Springs, Fla 



Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 



Washington... 



Oregon.. 



California 



Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash... 



Lake fisheries 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries 



Lake Pepin 



Lake Keokuk 



Mississippi River between Lake Pepin and 



Lake Keokuk 



Fisheries of Alaska 



Strilistical survey procedure 



Sectional surveys 



Local and special surveys 



Practices and terms 



Conversion factors 



Common and scientific names of fishery prod- 

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1 Appendix II to the Report of the U. S. Commissiooer of Fisheries, 1935. Approved for publication 

 May 14, 1935. 



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