FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 773 



HOLDINGS OF CURED FISH 



Only cured herring and mild-cured salmon are reported held in 

 cold-storage warehouses in the United States and Alaska during 1929. 

 Monthly holdings of cured herring varied between 18,900,000 pounds 

 in February and 24,600,000 ])ounds in wSeptember. Monthly hold- 

 ings of mild-cured salmon varied between 1,800,000 pounds in May, 

 and 7,200,000 pounds in September. The stocks of cured fish held 

 in cold storage in 1929 were considerably larger than those during 

 the year 1928, and considerably above normal. The monthly hold- 

 ings in 1929 compared with normal show increases during 10 months 

 of the year of from 2 to 47 per cent, and decreases of 2 and 8 per 

 cent during only 2 months of the year. Compared with the respec- 

 tive monthly holdings in 1928 there were increases in 11 months, 

 ranging from 6 to 59 per cent. In only 1 month was there ar decrease, 

 that being 3 per cent in December. 



Holdings of cured fish, 1929, by species and months 



Month ended the 15th of— 



Cured 

 herring 



Mild-cured 

 salmon 



Total 



Pounds 



January 19,439,346 



February 18,897,121 



March 19,090,635 



.\pril 23,246,667 



May 23,560,584 



June 23,852,080 



Julv I 23,513,036 



August I 22,730,960 



September 24,569,135 



October 23,802,003 



November i 21,357,017 



December... [ 19,557,194 



Pounds 

 4, 219, 251 

 3, 240, 579 

 2,314,514 

 1, 934, 272 

 1,798,720 

 2, 826, 187 

 4, 828, 686 

 5, 896, 780 

 7,191,949 

 6, 946, 221 

 fi, 690, 832 

 5, 419, 722 



Pounds 

 23, 658, 

 22, 137, 

 21,405, 

 25, 180, 

 25, 359, 

 26, 678, 

 28, 341, 

 28, 627, 

 31,761, 

 30, 748, 

 28, 047, 

 24, 976, 



597 

 700 

 149 

 939 

 304 

 267 

 722 

 740 

 084 

 224 



Monthly holdings of cured fish for 1929 and 1928 and the 5-year average, compared 

 [Expressed in thousands of pounds; that is, 000 omitted] 



Month ended the 15th of- 



January 



February.. 



.March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



.\ugust 



September. 



October 



November- 

 December.. 



Average. 



