FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929 



983 



Wholesale trade.— There were 33 wholesale establishments in the 

 Piiget Sound, coastal, and Columbia River districts of Washington 

 engaged chiefly in handling fresh and frozen products. This is 30 

 per cent of the total number of such establishments in the Pacific 

 coast section. These estabhshments employed 494 persons, who 

 received $834,550 in salaries and wages. 



Prepared and by-products trade. — There were 63 establishments in 

 Washington engaged primarily in the manufacture of prepared 

 fishery products or by-products. This is 38 per cent of the total 

 number in the Pacific coast section. They employed 1,793 persons 

 who received $1,236,632 in salaries and wages. The products manu- 

 factured, consisting principally of canned and mild-cured salmon 

 and canned clams, were valued at $7,757,405. Detailed statistics 

 of most of the items manufactured may be obtained from Fishery 

 Industries of the United States, 1928, Bureau of Fisheries Document 



Induslries related to the fisheries of Washingto7i, 1928 

 TRANSPORTING 



Items 



Men on transporting vessels 



Transporting vessels, motor 



Net tonnage --- 



Number 



218 



74 



1,504 



WHOLESALE FISHERY TRADE 



Items 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors and salaried employees. 

 Wage earners 



Paid to salaried emplojees 



Paid to wage earners 



Total salaries and wages_ 



Puget 

 Sound 

 district 



137 

 329 



Columbia 



River and 



coastal 



districts 



$305, 629 

 501,214 



806, 843 



$11,500 

 16, 207 



27, 707 



Total 



144 

 350 



$317,129 

 517,421 



834, 550 



PREPARED FISHERY PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS 



Items 



Establishments --- 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors and salaried em- 

 ployees 



Wage earners 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners.- 



Total salaries and wages — 



Number 



259 

 1,534 



$389, 634 

 846, 698 



1, 236, 632 



Products 



Salted sablefish pounds . . 



Mild-cured: 



Chinook salmon do 



Silver salmon do — 



Miscellaneous, salted and smoked 



fish 



Canned: 



Salmon standard cases'. 



Razor clams- 

 Whole do... 



Minced-- do — 



Hard clams- 

 Whole do... 



Other clam products do — 



Shad do... 



Shad roe do... 



Salmon eggs do... 



Miscellaneous 2. 



By-products 3 



231, 200 



3, 584, 625 

 400, 950 



Total. 



Quantity Value 



497, 400 



5,871 

 82, 682 



12, 452 

 2,059 

 6,756 

 889 

 3,970 



$27, 744 



1, 254, 619 

 128, 304 



272, 165 



5, 023, 996 



51.434 



728, 077 



55, 273 

 5,295 

 33, 789 

 10, 376 

 99, 455 

 908 

 65, 970 



7, 757, 405 



1 A standard case contains forty-eight 1-pound cans of salmon, shad, shad roe, and salmon eggs or 

 forty-eight No. 1 cans of clam products. ,, , -.s 



s Includes canned scallops, crabs, halibut fillets, and herrmg (for bait). 

 3 Includes salmon oil and meal. 



