FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1935 

 MACKEREL FISHERY OF THE ATLANTIC COAST « 



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In 1934 the mackerel fleet landed 40,385,700 pounds of mackerel, 

 an increase of 37 percent as compared with corresponding statistics 

 for the previous year. In 1934, as in the previous year, fleet activity 

 was curtailed for a portion of the season to avoid glutting the market 

 The curtailment, applying only to purse-seme vessels, was by mutual 

 agreement during the period from May 27 to June 9 and thereafter 

 by authority of the Code of Fair Competition for the Mackerel 

 Fishing Industry under the National Recovery Administration, and 

 consisted of the "restrictions indicated in the footnotes of the following 

 table. Unlike 1933, ''dumping" of mackerel for lack of market was 

 negligible in 1934. ^ • . i <■ -• i 



Of the total landings, 20,253,000 pounds consisted of tinker sizes 

 (under 1 pound each) and 20,132,700 pounds were of larger sizes. 

 Practically all of the tinker mackerel were taken m the Gull of Maine 

 after July 15. There were no bull's-eye mackerel landed by the fleet. 



Mackerel fishery of the Atlantic coast, 1934 

 CATCH: By areas in 7-day periods 



I S ;^Si t^o%l!rp=tp^eftr*[?and fleet called into port June 5 to avoid further glutting of 



'""f Slie-h'alf of fleet operated, each vessel of 20 tons gross or over subject to a limit of 5 000 po^^^^^ 1,000 



nnnnru npr mpnihpr of crew dIus 50 Dounds pergross ton (average 20,300 pounds per vessel) per iiipduuedLu 

 boat under 2^ g?osI ton' sSct L a Itait of 5:000 pounds plus 1,000 pounds per member of crew (average 



applied to following weeks' quotas. 



SSSL-SIS. •'^^^'SS^;S£^:tiS;^l^ S7& SIX o'SlSrn,, 

 of gear. 



NOTE -The roman numerals appearing in the stub of the above table refer to the numbers given these 

 areas by the North American Council on Fishery Investigations. 



