FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



REPORT OF THE DIVISION OF FISHERY INDUSTRIES FOR 1922.i 



By Harden F. Taylor, Assistant in Charge.^ 

 (With the collaboration of the division staff.) 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



Summari,- of operations 



Publications of the division 



Documents 



Economic circulars 



Statistical bulletins 



Improvements in merchandising fishery 



products 



Filleting fish 



Market surveys 



Technological investigations 



Brine freezing 



Preservation of nets 



Canning sardines 



Salting of Pacific coast mackerel 



Pearl essence 



Fisheries exhibit at the Brazilian Interna- 

 tional Centennial Exposition 



Agreement between Bureau of the Census and 

 Bureau of Fisheries relative to collection 

 of statistics on fish and marine animal 



oils 



The production of certain fishery products in 



1921 and 1922 



Canned fishery products and by-products of 



the United States and Alaska, 1922 



Canned fishery products 



Canned salrnon 



Canned sardines 



Canned shad and alewives 



Canned albacore, tuna, and mackerel in 



California 



Canned shrimp and crabs 



Canned clams 



Canned oysters 



Miscellaneous canned fishery products. . . 

 Exports of canned fishery products in 



1922 



By-products of the fisheries 



"Fish oils 



Fish scrap and meal 



Liquid fish glue 



Poultry grit and Ume 



The menhaden industry 



Frozen fish 



Cold-storage holdings in 1922 



Quantities frozen La 1922 



Quantities frozen in 1921 and 1922 com- 

 pared 



Quantities frozen in 1922, by geographical 

 sections 



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New England vessel fisheries 



General statistics 



Species 



Cod 



Haddock 



Hake 



Pollock..... 



Cusk 



Halibut 



Mackerel 



S wordfish 



Flounders 



Herring 



Otter-trawl fishery 



Vessel landings of cod, haddock, and halibut. 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash 



Fisheries of California in 1922 



Fishery products received at Municipal Fish 



Wharf and Market, Washington, D. C 



Notes on sponge fishery 



Fisheries of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Delaware in 1921 



Earlier publications 



Common and scientific names of fishes 



General statistics 



Shad fishery of the Hudson River 



Fisheries of New York 



Vessel and shore fisheries 



Fisheries by apparatus 



Industries 



Wholesale trade 



Smoked fish, etc , 



Menhaden industry 



Fisheries of New Jersey 



Vessel and shore fisheries 



Fisheries by apparatus 



Industries 



Wholesale trade 



Menhaden industry 



Fisheries of Pennsylvania 104 



Vessel and shore fisheries 105 



Fisheries by apparatus 106 



Industries 107 



Prepared products 107 



Wholesale trade 107 



Fisheries of Delaware 107 



Vessel and shore fisheries 109 



Fisheries by apparatus 109 



Industries HI 



Wholesale trade Ill 



Menhaden industrv HI 



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1 Appendix V to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1923. B. F. Doc. 954. 

 » Lewis Radclifle was in charge of the Division of Fishery Industries until November 15, 1922. 



