2 U. S. BUKEAU OF FISHERIES. 



Quantities and values of certain Jishery products landed at Boston by American fishing 

 vessels durmg the year ended September 30, 1922 — Continued. 



Month. 



Pollock. 



Cusk. 



Halibut. 



1921 



Octol)er 



November 



December , 



1922 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May , 



June 



July 



August 



September 



Total 



Pounds. 

 454,942 

 175, tiOO 

 IS.3,490 



94,909 

 93,949 

 99,111 

 154,218 

 217,054 

 228.378 

 374,874 

 417,858 

 407,925 



Value. 

 $10,331 

 3,111 

 3,751 



4,012 

 4,044 

 3, 450 

 3,962 

 5,778 

 5, 535 

 7,605 

 9,546 

 7,677 



Pounds. 

 76,507 

 80,840 

 125, .500 



113,155 

 132,445 

 163, 138 

 157,295 

 97,445 

 33,. 520 

 35, 407 

 ,57,905 

 45, 790 



V alue. 

 $1,172 

 1,251 

 2,020 



2,750 



2,653 



1,889 



1,805 



1,102 



562 



538 



726 



673 



Pounds. 

 599.728 

 25,372 

 49, 130 



38,692 

 188, 834 

 483, 722 

 486,342 

 479, S71 

 395, 476 

 614, 356 

 549, 087 

 404,696 



2,902,368 



68,802 1,119,247 



17,141 



4,315,306 



Value. 



$86,747 

 6,065 

 12,404 



.32, 115 

 76,255 

 57,171 

 64,920 

 56,843 

 68,277 

 67,383 

 59,709 



596, 778 



Month. 



October 



November . 

 December. . 



1921. 



January 



Febniaty . . , 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September . 



Total. 



1922. 



Mackerel. 



Pounds. 

 14, 850 

 343,700 

 4,995 



Value. 

 $2,769 

 51,733 

 1,149 



100 



92, 552 



816, 565 



15,238 



21,045 



637,382 



61 



15,227 



59,530 



761 



8;36 



25,0.54 



1,946,427 



157,120 



Miscellaneous. 



Pounds. 

 316,668 

 240,305 

 231,505 



252,700 

 381,149 

 914,341 

 319, 735 

 484, 567 

 308, 453 

 1.632,707 

 1,231,758 

 799, 390 



Value. 



$15, .596 

 12,675 

 14,906 



14,092 



17,543 



.36,149 



9,997 



9, 875 



39,351 



203,506 



148,963 



75,797 



Total. 



Pounds. 

 9,962,839 

 6,984,624 

 6,40.5,126 



5,637,246 

 9,561,627 

 10, 852, 500 

 7,712,436 

 8,825,884 

 8,167.179 

 8.648,582 

 9,364,386 

 9,827,296 



7,113,278 



598,450 1101,949,725 



Value. 



$388,491 

 301,287 

 338,212 



306,057 

 320,678 

 298, 484 

 257,683 

 286,084 

 337,393 

 451,539 

 420, 367 

 345,075 



4,051,350 



MARKETING PROSPECTS. 



It has been conservatively estimated by prominent men in the 

 Boston fish trade that the vessel landings of ground fish at that port, 

 now averaging approximately 7,000,000 pomids per month, could be 

 doubled in the brief space of 90 days, provided the market for these 

 fishes was sufficiently expanded to absorb this increase. With this 

 situation in view it is evident that the important problem now con- 

 fronting Boston fishing interests is that of extending the sale of cod 

 and haddock, the two principal products of the ground fishery. The 

 actual availability of a potential market of sufficient size to absorb 

 such increased production is evidenced by the fact that the center of 

 distribution for Boston fish (as revealed in Fig. 2 of this report, p. 

 15) lies about 750 miles northeast of the center of population of the 

 United States shown in the United States Bureau of the Census 

 population statistics for 1920. 



DISTRffiUTION DURING SEPTEMBER, 1922. 



Owing to the amount of research required for the determination of 

 Boston's distribution of fresh and frozen fishery products, it was 

 found necessary in conducting the present survey to confine the 

 discussion of this subject to a period of one month. The month of 



