REFRIGERATION OF FISH 



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ings for the year were 44,084,251 pounds. It is impossible to deter- 

 mine from the available statistics the average term of storage. 



NUMBER AND LOCATION OF COLD-STORAGE WAREHOUSES THAT HANDLE FISH 



According to such information as is available, there are in the 

 United States 169 warehouses that handle frozen fish. Of this num- 

 ber 102 handle only fish while 67 handle fish and other goods. Many 

 of these are private warehouses, several of them do a public business, 

 and some of them combine a public and private business. The 

 distribution of these warehouses is shown in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Cold storage warehouses that handle fish in the United States 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE FISH-FREEZING BUSINESS 



The region of the United States where the largest amount of fish 

 is frozen is the Pacific coast, including Alaska, where 31.12 per 

 cent of the total was frozen in 1925. The New England States, with 

 26.94 per cent of the total, appear in the statistics as next in volume 

 of fish frozen. In 1924 the Middle Atlantic States occupied second 

 place, largely because of the ciscoes frozen in New. York and Penn- 

 sylvania where these States border on the Great Lakes; but because 

 of a large decrease in the amount of ciscoes frozen in 1925 this 

 region fell behind in that year. The North Central divisions, east 

 and west, which include the Great Lakes region (except those parts 

 of New York and Pennsylvania already referred to), together ac- 

 count for 18.79 per cent of the total in 1925. 



It is significant that the South Atlantic and Gulf States freeze 

 only the negligible quantity of a little more than 1 per cent of the 

 total. The southern Pacific region also freezes very little, the amount 

 not being shown separately. 



In Canada the distribution of the industry is similar to that in 

 the United States. In British Columbia there are large freezers 

 whose business is chiefly in salmon, halibut, and black cod. Along 

 the Great Lakes whitefish, lake trout, and ciscoes make up the bulk, 

 while in the eastern Provinces salmon, eels, herring, and smelts con- 

 stitute the greater part of the frozen fish. 



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