FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 ' 



By R. H. Fiedler 

 Chief, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



Foreword - 



Part 1. — Operations of the Division 



Page 

 705 



Collection of statistics 706 



Catch analysis — Columbia River Chinook 



salmon fishery 707 



Technological investigations 708 



Net preservation 709 



By-products 710 



Nutritive value of fishery products 713 



Improved handling of fresh and frozen fish. 715 



General service -- 717 



Market and industrial surveys 717 



Facilities for freezing and warehousing 



frozen fish products 717 



Oyster-market survey 723 



Publications of the division 723 



Documents 724 



Statistical bulletins 724 



Part 2. — Fisheries Statistics 



Review ._ 724 



New England States 725 



Middle Atlantic States 725 



Chesapeake Bay States 726 



South Atlantic States 726 



Gulf States 726 



Pacific Coast States 726 



Lake fisheries 727 



Mississippi River and tributaries 727 



Alaska 727 



Yield of food fishery products, by volume. 727 



Yield of food fishery products, by value.. 729 



Yield of nonfood fishery products 730 



Canned fishery products and by-products 



trade 739 



Canned products _ 741 



By-products 754 



Tight-pack cut herring trade 759 



Packaged-fish trade 759 



Frozen-flsh trade _• 760 



Fish frozen 760 



Holdings 767 



Holdings of cured fish 773 



Foreign fishery trade 774 



Fisheries of the New England States 777 



Salted and smoked fish industries 782 



Maine 783 



New Hampshire 792 



Massachusetts 793 



Rhode Island 803 



Connecticut 811 



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' Appendix XIV to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1930, Bureau of Fisheries 

 Document No. 1095. Submitted for publication June 30, 1930. 



Part 2.— Fisheries Statistics— Continued 



Fisheries of the New England States— Con. 



Historical review _. 



Vessel fisheries at principal New England 



ports 



Mackerel fishery of the .Atlantic coast. ._ 



Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States. 



Vessel fisheries at New York City and 



Groton, Conn 



Shad fishery of the Hudson River 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States.. 



Shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac 



River 



Trade in fresh and frozen fishery products 

 in Washington, D. C 



Fisheries of the South Atlantic States. 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



East coast of Florida 



Historical review 



Fisheries of Florida 



Lake Okeechobee 



Sponge fishery 



Fisheries of the Gulf States 



West coast of Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Historical review 



Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 



Washington 



Oregon.. 



California 



Historical review 



Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash 



Lake fisheries .._ 



United States and Canada 



United States. 



Historical review 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries.. 



Fresh-water mussel shell fishery 



Lake Pepin 



Lake Keokuk 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River be- 

 tween Lakes Pepin and Keokuk 



Fisheries of Alaska 



Common and scientific names of fishery 

 products 



Methods used in collecting statistics 



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