760 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Production of fresh, frozen, and smoked packaged fish in the United States, 1929 



' A small amount of cod packaged in Virginia has been included with New York. 



2 A small amount of halibut packaged in Massachusetts has been included with Washington, Oregon, 

 and California. 



' Includes barracuda, blue pike, "lingcod," rockfish, sableflsh, seaba-ss, snook, whiting, yellow perch, 

 and other species. , 



< Of this amount, 78,413,938 pounds, valued at $13,9,50,601, were fillets; 3,291,094 pounds, valued at $419,430 

 were dre.s.«ed or pan-dressed; 230,259 pounds, valued at $46,279, were steaks; 2,400,214 pounds, valued at 

 $382,987, were sticks; and 61,000 pounds, valued at $13,700, were tenderloins. Of the total quantity of 

 fillets prepared, 55,095,723 pounds, valued at .1i9,Hiio,s(«, were fresh; 21,632,860 pounds, valued at $3,877,319 

 were frozen; and 1,685,355 pounds, valued at $272,479. were smoked. Of the steaks, all were marketed 

 frozen, with the exception of 15,000 pounds, valued at $3,000, which were fresh. Only a small amount 

 of dressed and pan-dressed fish were frozen, all the remaining fish in this group as well as those in the stick 

 and tenderloin groui)s being marketed fresh. 



FROZEN-FISH TRADE 



FISH FROZEN 



In 1!)29 the freezing plants in the United States and Alaska, report- 

 ing their activities to the Government, packed 121,542,589 pounds of 

 frozen fishery products. These products, at the time they were held 

 in cold-storage plants, were estimated to be valued at $15,000,000. 

 This is the largest frozen pack of fishery products on record and 

 exceeded the volume of the pack in 1928 by 7 per cent. Over one- 

 half of the pack consisted of six species of fish. Listed in order of 

 importance they were: Halibut, with 12 per centof the total; salmon. 



