FISHERIES INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1930 



By R. H. Fiedler 



Chief, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



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Foreword— 109 



Part 1. — Operations of the Division 



Collection of statistics _ 110 



Catch analysis— Columbia River chinook 



salmon fishery 111 



Technological investigations 112 



By-products and production methods 112 



Improved handling of fresh and frozen fish. 117 



Net preservation 119 



Nutritive value of marine products 120 



Gloucester laboratory 123 



Market and industrial surveys 123 



Fish farming industries of the United 



States 124 



Fish oils 124 



Virgin Islands of the United States 125 



Publications of the division 126 



Documents 120 



Special articles 126 



Statistical bulletins 126 



Part 2. —Fishery Statistics 



Review 127 



General 127 



New England States 131 



iVIiddle Atlantic States 131 



Chesapeake Bay States 132 



South Atlantic and Gulf States 132 



Pacific Coast States 132 



Lake fisheries. 132 



Mississippi River and tributaries 133 



Alaska 133 



Canned fishery products and by-products 



trade 145 



Canned products 146 



By-products 159 



Cured fishery products trade 165 



Salted and smoked fishery products 167 



Tight-pack cut herring 171 



Packaged fishery products trade 172 



Frozen-fish trade 174 



Fish frozen ^ 174 



Holdings 180 



Holdings of cured fish 184 



Foreign fishery trade 186 



Fisheries of the New England States 191 



Maine 196 



New Hampshire 205 



Massachusetts.. 206 



Rhode Island 218 



Connecticut 224 



Historical review 232 



Vessel fisheries at principal New England 



ports 237 



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Fisheries of the New England States— Con. 



Mackerel fishery of the Atlantic coast 263 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States 267 



New York 273 



New Jersey 286 



Pennsylvania 298 



Delaware 301 



Historical review _ 307 



Vessel fisheries at New York City and Qro- 



ton, Conn 310 



Shad fishery of the Hudson River 311 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States 312 



Maryland 310 



Virginia 325 



Historical review 339 



Shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac 



River 341 



Trade in fresh, frozen, and smoked fishery 



products in Washington, D. C 343 



Fisheries of the South Atlantic and Gulf 



States 346 



North Carolina 354 



South Carohna 368 



Georgia 374 



Florida.. 379 



Alabama 401 



Mississippi 406 



Louisiana 411 



Texas 418 



Historical Review 425 



Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 433 



Washington 439 



Oregon 447 



California 452 



Historical review 472 



Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast 479 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash 482 



Lake fisheries _ 487 



United States and Canada 487 



United States 490 



Historical review 516 



Mussel-shell industry of the lake fisheries... 519 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries 523 



Fresh-water mussel-shell fishery . 523 



Lake Pepin 524 



Lake Keokuk 527 



Mississippi River between Lakes Pepin and 



Keokuk 530 



Fisheries of Alaska 535 



Fisheries of the Virgin Islands of the United 



States 542 



Common and scientific names of fishery 



products 543 



Statistical survey procedure 547 



Methods of collection.. 547 



Compilation practices 551 



FOREWORD 



This report constitutes an annual review on fishery statistics of the 

 United States as well as a summary of activities of the division of 

 fishery industries. 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 



' Appendix II to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, 1931. Approved for publication, 

 June 8, 1931. 



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