FISHERY INDUSTRIES 01'^ THE UNITED STATES, 1922. H 



Production and value of certain fishery products in 1921 and 1922, compared. 



Products. 



1921 



Quantity. 



Fish landed by fishing vessels i 

 at Boston and Gloucester, j 

 Mass., and Portland, Me 

 pounds.., 150,865,106 $5,722,629 



Trips number. .1 7, 206 



Fish landed by fishing and col- 

 lecting vessels at Seattle, 

 Wash pounds.. 26,095,223 2,202,181 



Trips number.. 866 



Products of the fisheries of Cal- 

 ifornia pounds.. 127,728,623 



Fish received at Washington, 

 D. C, Municipal Fish 

 Wharf poimds.. 0,066,744 



Sponges sold at Sponge Ex- 

 change, Tarpon Springs, 

 Fla pounds.. 386,390 540,093 



Canned salmon: I 



Pacific Coast States.. cases.. 1,002,948 ! 9,234,425 

 Alaska do.... 2,596,826 jl9,632,744 



Value. 



1922 



Quantity. 



Total, canned salmon 



cases . . 3, 599, 774 



1,350,631 

 415, 587 



1, 766, 218 



Canned sardines: 



Maine do 



Cahfomia do 



Total, canned sardines 

 cases.. 



Canned albacore and tuna, 



bluefin, yeUowfin, and 



striped cases.. 



Caimed shrimp do 



Caimed clams, hard, soft, and 



razor cases . . 



Canned oysters do 



AU canned fishery products 



cases . . 



Menhaden industry: 



Fish utilized number. . 



Fish meal and scrap pro- 

 duced tons. . 



Oil gallons. . 



Fish oUs, other than menhaden 



gallons.. 



Fish meal and scrap, other 



K than menhaden tons.. 24,611 



Liquid glue gallons.. 347,048 



All by-products 



Fish, frozen pounds. . 79, 173, 892 



28, 867, 169 



159,875,391 

 6,349 



26, 415, 440 

 836 



168,969,733 

 6,442,663 



526,885 



733,246 

 4, 501, 652 



Value. 



$5,465,932 



2,214,654 



Increase (■+) or 

 decrease (— ). 



Quantity 

 (per 

 cent). 



5, 234, 898 



3,960,916 

 2, 346, 446 



6,307,362 



3,073,681 

 3,804,781 



1,166,507 

 2,179,271 



!46,634,706 



1,929,219 



2,286,095 

 1,719,892 



1,017,074 I 264,011 



1, 271, 047 



364, 415 



8, 351, 827 



418, 821 

 667, 558 



226, 130 

 455,550 



7,464,210 



1, 031, 540, 831 



82,662 

 6, 260, 478 



1,775,878 

 728,979 



2, 504, 857 



614, 926 

 586,691 



308,640 

 522,549 



10,094,549 



1, 212, 450, 669 



93,576 

 7,102,677 



1,185,651 



22,590 

 323,003 



75,453,674 



699,092 



8, 633, 524 

 29, 787, 193 



38, 420, 717 



+6.0 

 -11.9 



+ 1.2 

 -3.4 



+ 32.3 

 -28.9 



+36.4 



-26.9 

 +73.3 



+45.4 



5, 750, 109 

 3, 361, 480 



9, 111, 589 



4, 294, 912 

 3,064,087 



1, 716, 365 

 2,423,616 



60,464,947 



2, 457, 690 



3,221,758 

 2,904,833 



441, 213 



1, 114, 919 



278,424 



11,390,693 



+31.5 

 + 75.4 



+41.8 



+46.8 

 -12.1 



+36.5 



+ 14.7 



+35.2 



+ 17.5 



+ 13.2 

 +13.4 



+ 16.6 



-8.2 

 -6.9 



-4.7 



Value 

 (per 

 cent). 



+.6 



+29.4 



-6.5 

 +51.7 



+33.1 



+45.2 

 + 43.2 



+44.4 



+39.7 

 -19.4 



-47.1 

 +11.2 



+ 29.6 



+27.4 



+40.9 

 +68.9 



+67.1 



-12.3 

 -23.6 

 +36.4 



CANNED FISHERY PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED 

 STATES AND ALASKA, 1922. 



The bureau has made a canvass of the canned fishery products and 

 by-products of the United States and Alaska for 1922, and the sta- 

 tistics were published and distributed to the trade as Statistical Bul- 

 letin No. 570. The total value of canned products in 1922 amounted 

 to S60,464,947 and of by-products to $11,390,693. As compared 

 with 1921 there was an increase in the value of canned products 

 of $13,830,241, or 29.65 per cent, and in the value of by-products of 

 $3,038,866, or 36.38 per cent. The canned products consisted princi- 

 pally of canned salmon, sardines, shad, alewives, albacore, tuna, 

 shrimp, crabs, clams, and oysters, and the by-products of fish scrap, 



