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In general, the more expensive varieties are frozen — salmon, hali- 

 but, whitefish, mackerel, etc. Herring, and to some extent squid, are 

 frozen for bait. Ciscoes are 

 frozen almost entirely for smok- 

 ing purposes. Whiting are 

 frozen to meet the demand in 

 the Central States, while much 

 of the frozen salmon is exported 

 to Europe. The United States 

 are principally exporters 

 rather than importers of 

 frozen fish. 



The detailed statistics of fish 

 frozen in the United States are 

 given in Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5. 

 Figure 1 gives a comparison 

 of amounts of various groups 

 of fish frozen in 1924 and 

 1925. The percentage of the 

 total amount of fish frozen by 



SOUTH CENTRAL 

 JM0UNTWHU52 



PERCENTAGE Of THE AMOUNT OFFISH FROZEN BY THE 

 SEVERAL SECTIONS Of THE UNITED 5TATES IN I3Z5. 



Fig. 2 



the several sections of the United 



States in 1925 is shown by Figure 2. 13 



Table 2. — Fish frozen monthly in 1925, by species, and in 1920-1924, by totals a 



Species 



Bluefish (all trade sizes) 



Butterflsh (all trade sizes) 



Catfish 



Ciscoes (including bluefin, 

 blackfin, chub, lake herring, 

 etc.) 



Ciscoes (tullibees) - 



Cod, haddock, hake, pollock 



Croakers 



Flounders... 



Halibut (all trade sizes) .. 



Herring, sea (including ale- 

 wives and bluebacks) 



Lake trout ^ 



Mackerel (except Spanish) 



Pike perches and pike or pickerel 



Sablefish (black cod) 



Salmon: 



Silver and fall 



Steelhead trout 



All other.. 



Scup (porgies) 



Shad and shad roe 



Shellfish 



Smelts, eulachon, etc 



Squeteagues or "sea trout" 



Squid.. 



Sturgeon and spoonbill cat 



Suckers... 



Whitefish. 



Whiting 



Miscellaneous frozen fish 



Total frozen fish, 1925 



Total frozen fish, 1924 



Total frozen fish, 1923.. 



Total frozen fish, 1922... 



Total frozen fish, 1921 



Total frozen fish, 1920 



Month ended — 



Jan. 15 Feb. 15 Mar. 15 Apr. 15 May 15 June 15 July 15 



Pounds 

 94, 746 

 7,320 

 6,454 



1, 026, 651 



185, 599 



134, 607 



2,100 



57, 168 



453, 098 



150, 625 

 217, 945 



90, 220 

 321, 847 



72, 992 



154,958 



42,896 



620 



236, 627 



83, 747 



2,601 



19, 865 

 7,635 

 79, 583 

 12, 119 

 470, 5 30 

 3, 932, 553 



Pounds 

 600 



1,577 



90, 562 

 91, 457 

 113, 170 



21, 492 

 121, 227 



421, 342 

 50, 653 

 26,640 

 76, 174 

 19, 359 



16, 651 

 23, 160 

 10, 314 



1,724 

 117, 497 

 34, 296 



3, 179, 098 

 2, 741, 538 

 2,441,8921 

 4, 005, 000 

 2, 291, 082 



287 



6,579 



2,335 



103, 834 



410, 386 



432, 105 



2, 193 , 421 



2,440,163 

 1, 662, 135 

 1, 452, 801 

 2, 843, 000 

 2, 273, 744 



Pounds 

 14, 493 



7,734 



42, 969 

 110,312 

 175, 122 

 414 

 37, 633 

 1, 533, 414 



224, 231 

 29, 884 

 48, 167 



126, 076 

 54,399 



68, 967 



7,600 



74, 452 



3,540 

 101, 149 

 42,493 



Pounds 

 3,810 

 1,781 

 11, 127 



149, 517 



55, 955 



326, 679 



1,500 



85, 394 



1, 339, 498 



9,096 

 12, 862 

 72, 251 

 65, 421 



8,718 



45, 636 



16, 675 



1, 288, 787 



21, 506 

 82, 051 

 39, 366 



49, 120 540 



14,6241 14,553 



26, 850, 973; 



295,701) 186,4891 



178, 199 74, 460 



220, 280J 400, 236 



3,487,823 4,314,881 5,857,557 



Pounds 

 11, 082 

 8,327 

 98, 698 



76, 309 

 36, 000 

 315,094 

 411, 470 

 211,581 

 869, 324 



375, 773 

 63, 460 

 101, 734 

 574, 547 

 85, 920 



141, 587 

 2,933 

 87, 811 

 78, 885 

 91, 494 

 191, 345 

 8,918 

 142, 615 

 499, 790 

 71,215 

 464 

 88, 131 

 299, 991 

 913, 059 



2,417,473 2,729,366 



1,412,490 1,400,078 



1,363,942 1,496,538 



1,770,000 2,413,000, 



2,630,482 2,465,375: 



6, 040, 261 

 5, 026, 888 

 1, 980, 435 

 2, 698, 000 

 3, 687, 536 



Pounds 

 12, 512 

 146, 666 

 38, 594 



94, 422 



246 



122, 485 



69, 399 



206, 834 



1, 923, 334 



244,624 



107, 333 



1,916,341 



477, 060 



39, 786 



332, 156 



19, 670 



588, 269 



338, 838 



204, 954 



143, 401 



22, 602 



131, 430 



1, 277, 225 



62, 226 



3,178 



65, 338 



1, 410, 344 



800,653 



10, 799, 920 



Pounds 

 41, 705 

 141, 856 

 50, 563 



63, 018 



2,618 



105, 106 



395, 532 



117, 072 



1, 344, 419 



492, 886 

 142, 065 

 648,501 

 59, 218 

 387, 501 



446, 572 

 237,511 

 040, 399 

 353, 375 

 17, 865 

 174, 639 



505 



38,001 



375, 289 



107, 540 



223 

 139, 987 

 657, 351 

 640,058 

 221,375 



8,281,51611,996,011 

 7,671,12711,871,645 

 5,849,537 7,376,237 

 9,624,000 10,151,000 

 10,094,367 12,761,791 



a These figures have been revised in accordance with further reports received since 

 original publication of data for the month. 



18 Tables taken from Fishery Industries of the United States, 1925' by Oscar E. Sette. 

 Appendix V, Report, TJ. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1926. Bureau of Fisheries 

 Document No. 1010. Figs. 1 and 2 furnished by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



