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the cooperative status of fishery organizations in the United States, 

 and the extent and nature of their activities. Studies pertaining to 

 fishery associations and the financing of fishermen, which were begun 

 in 1936 on the Pacific and Middle and North Atlantic coasts, have 

 been extended to include the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It has 

 been found among fishermen and associations visited that there is 

 widespread interest in the possibilities of advancing cooperative mar- 

 keting activities. This interest has been evidenced further by many 

 requests for the Bureau to give aid of an advisory character con- 

 cerning operations and management and financing problems. Wher- 

 ever possible, such assistance has been supplied through correspond- 

 ence, informative literature, or personal contact. 



STATISTICAL INVESTIGATIONS 



FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES, CALENDAR YEAE I'JSO 



Nev) England States. — No complete statistical survey of tlie com- 

 mercial fisheries of this area was made for 1936. However, the total 

 landings by United States fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, 

 Mass., and Portland, Maine, amounted to 414,767,000 pounds, valued 

 at $11,144,000, an increase of 11 percent in volume and 24 percent in 

 value as compared with the preceding year. 



Middle Atlantw States. — No complete sui'vey for the catch of fishery 

 products in these States was made for 1936. A survey made of the 

 shad fisherv of the Hudson River for 1936 showed that 476 fishermen 

 took 2,468,000 pounds of shad, valued at $170,000, an increase of 191 

 percent in volume and 139 percent in value as compared with 1935. 



Chesapeake Bay States. — The commercial fisheries of Maryland and 

 Virginia in 1936 gave employment to 18,283 fishermen. Their catch 

 amounted to 314,095,000 pounds, valued at $6,488,000, an increase of 

 IS percent in volume and 17 percent in value as compared with the 

 catch in the previous j'^ear. 



South Atlantic and Gulf States. — The commercial fisheries of North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana, and Texas, during 1936, gave employment to 29,006 fisher- 

 men. Their catch amounted to 556,993,000 pounds, valued at $13,542,- 

 000, an increase of 24 percent in volume and 36 percent in value as 

 compared witli the catch in 1934, when the last previous survey of 

 catch was made. 



Pac/fiG Coast States. — During 1936 the commercial fisheries of 

 Washington, Oregon, and California gave employment to 20,620 fish- 

 ermen, whose catch amounted to 1,925,342,000 pounds, valued at $24,- 

 882,000, an increase of 15 percent in volume and 8 percent in value 

 as compared with 1935. The total catch of halibut by United States 

 and Canadian vessels amounted to 48,054,000 pounds, valued at $3,603,- 

 000, an increase of 5 percent in volume and 11 percent in value as 

 compared with the catch in the preceding year. 



Lake States. — In 1936 the connnercial fisheries of the United States 

 and Canada, in the Great Lakes and international lake of northern 

 Minnesota (Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior, and 

 Namakan and Rainy Lakes, and Lake of the Woods), yielded 124,- 

 408,000 pounds of fishery products. Of the total. United States fisher- 

 men took 94,277,000 pounds, valued at $6,389,000, an increase of 4 



