FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 777 

 Imports of fishery products entered for consumption, 1928 and 1929 — Continued 



Items 



1928 



1929 



Nonedible fishery products— Continued. 

 Shells and buttons of pearl or shell- 

 Shells, not manufactured: Pounds 



Green snail shell. pounds.. 104,675 



Mother-of-pearl do 6,516,745 



All others.. do 2,280,987 



Shells, manufactured ; 



Shell pearl buttons: j 



Fresh water .gross.. 3,015 



Ocean or trochus do ' 118,758 



Buttons, blanks, not turned, faced, or 



drilled gross.. 3,072 



Buttons (from Philippine Islands) ' 

 gross..' 922,219 



Total '... 



Sponges pounds.. I 933,232 



Agar-agar do i 397,368 



Ambergris do 160 



Puttleflsh bone- do.-.! 287,403 



Fish for purposes other than human consump- ; 



tion pounds.. I 3,678,684 



Fish skins, raw or salted do I 745,880 



Fish sounds, crude, dried, or salted for preser- j 



vation only poimds.. 39, 705 



Sea grass, eelgrass, and seaweed, dyed or manu- 

 factured : 



AVhalebone, unmanufactured.. .pounds..; 350 



Whalebone, manufactures of do 1 



Total 



Total nonedible fishery products , 



Grand total 



Value 



$12,698 



1, 882, 556 



257,313 



72, 558 



1,344 

 45, 376 



1,640 



438, 100 



Pounds 



189, 601 

 8, 924, 262 

 8, 579, 352 



2, 711, 584 



1, 124, 297 



285, 659 

 46, 297 

 35, 870 



61, 633 

 29, 440 



6,507 



44,636 

 456 



1,765 

 133,902 



670, 775 



856,515 ! 1,091,129 



502, 626 



387 



361, 707 



2, 984, 094 

 134, 918 



3,154 

 30 I Not reported. 



510, 528 



21, 463, 859 



68, 864, 938 



405, 728 

 125, 908 

 46, 920 



62, 560 

 1, 434, 489 



17,683 



38, 350 



1,878 

 1,682 



2, 135, 198 



27, 813, 028 



66, 565, 599 



Imports for consumption and domestic exports of fishery products, 1929, and ratio 



comparisons 



' Gallon of marine-animal oil calculated at 7.5 pounds. 



FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES 



During 1928 the value of the catch of fishery products in the New 

 England States (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, and Connecticut) exceeded that in any year for which there 

 are records. This was due mainly to the increased production of 

 haddock. These fisheries gave employment to 16,659 fishermen or 



