FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1937 ' 



By K. H. J'lEDLER, Chief, Division of Fishery Industries 

 CONTENTS 



Page Technological investigations— Continued. Page 



Foreword 152 Nutritive value of aquatic products— Con. 



Mineral constituents of fishery products 



and byproducts 188 



Fish meal in animal feeding 188 



l-'52 Kelp meal in animal feeding 189 



154 Fish cookery studies and demonstrations,.- 189 

 Research associates and student assistants-. 190 



155 Educational and consulting service 191 



156 Publications of the Division 191 



156 Documents, reports, and circulars 192 



156 Special articles and addresses. -. 192 



156 Statistical bulletins - 19a 



156 PartZ.— Fishery Stotistics, 1936 

 157 



157 General review -.. 194 



158 Manufactured fishery products 208 



158 Canned fishery products and byproducts 



160 trade 213 



161 Frozen-flsh trade 224 



Fish frozen 224 



161 Holdings 227 



161 Cold-storage holdings of cured fish 229 



Foreign fishery trade 229 



162 Fisheries of the New England States 233 



162 Vessel fisheries at principal New England 



163 ports 243 



Economic aspect 243 



Biological aspect - 252 



163 Mackerel fishery of the Atlantic coast 268 



165 Fisheries of the Middle Atlantic States 270 



166 Vessel fisheries at New York City 280 



166 Shad fishery of the Hudson River 281 



Fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay States - 282 



166 Maryland-.- 286 



167 Virginia 292 



167 Shad and alewife fisheries of the Potomac 



168 River 305 



168 Trade in fishery products in Washington. 



168 D. C 30fi 



169 Fisheries of the South Atlantic and Gulf 



169 States 309 



171 North Carolina -- 31S 



174 South Carolina - 328 



175 Georgia 331 



176 Florida - 334 



176 .41abama - 350 



177 Mississippi 353 



Louisiana 356 



178 Texas 360 



179 Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States 363 



Washington-.- 371 



179 Oregon 377 



180 California 381 



180 Halibut fishery of the Pacific coast 398 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash 400 



181 Lake fish(M-ies 403 



181 Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 



181 laries 427 



181 Lake Pepin -- 433 



182 Lake Keokuk - 4-34 



182 Mississippi River between Lake Pepin and 



183 Lake Keokuk 435 



184 Fisheries of .\l:iska 437 



184 Statistical survey procedure- _. 444 



Sectional surveys 444 



185 Local and special surveys 450 



186 Practices and terms -- 453 



1S7 Conversion factors 453 



Common and scientific names of fishery prod- 



18i I ucts- 466 



Part 1. — Operations of the Division 



Cooperation with other Federal agencies _ 



Cooperation with State agencies 



Cooperation with Fishery Advisory Com- 

 mittee - 



Exhibits at expositions 



Texas Centennial Central Exposition- 



Great Lakes Exposition 



International Exposition at Paris, France..^ 

 New York World's Fair and Golden Gate 



Exposition, 1939 



Seventh World's Poultry Congress, 1939 



General 



Economic and marketing investigations 



Surplus-fish situation 



Improved cold-storage statistics - 



United States fisheries off foreign countries. 

 Migratory fish of the Atlantic and Gulf 



coasts 



Commercial fisheries of the world 



Domestic markets for lobsters and spiny 



lobsters- 



Importation of cotton fish netting 



Interchangeability of uses of oils and fats 



Activities of the Fishery Conimittee of the 

 National Association of Marketing Offi- 

 cials 



Trends of the blue crab industry 



The Atlantic tuna fishery 



North Pacific halibut fishery 



Geographical trends in the production of 



canned oysters 



Commercial aspects of seaweed industries . . 



Markets for periwinkles (LiltuTina sp.) 



Statistical investigations. - . - 



Biological aspect -.: 



Economic aspect. 



Surveys conducted 



Fishery market news service.. 



Cooperative marketing 



Technological investigations.- 



Laboratories - 



Preservation of fishery products for food 



Klectrometric tests for the freshness of fish- 



Studies of rancidity in fish 



Studies of lactic acid as a possible index of 



decomposition in frozen fish 



Identification of canned salmon 



Changes in the composition of pink salmon 



( Oncorhynch us gnrbiincha) 



Canning aquatic products 



Bacteriological studies 



Studies of ultraviolet rays in killing bac- 

 teria 



Studies in the handling of fresh oysters 



Pharmacological studies 



The fluorine content of fishery products -- 



Manufacture of fishery byproducts 



I'tilization of salmon-cannery trimmings. 



Fish-liver oil studies 



Fish oils in paints - 



Studies on fat in fish meal 



Chemical preservation of fish and fish 



waste- 



Nutritive value of aquatic products 



Vitamin content of fishery products. . . ..- 



Chemical composition and nutritive value 



of fish protein,'; 



' Administrative Report No. 32, Appendix III to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, 1938, 

 Approved for publication, June 23, 1938. 



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