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MARINE PRODUCTS OF COMMERCE 



Table 26. Fishery Production per Person in Certain Countries. 



Country 



Iceland 



Newfoundland 



Norway 



Japan 



Canada 



Chosen 



Kwantung Leased Territory 



Denmark 



Sweden 



United Kingdom 



British Malaya 



Netherlands 



Portugal 



Spain 



United States and Alaska 



Venezuela 



Germany 



France 



Soviet Union 



Philippine Islands 



Argentina 



Mexico 



Italy 



China 



India, Iran, Burma 



Brazil 



Pounds 



6,223 



1,525 



680 



111 



109 



100 



67 



63 



49 



48 



39 



39 



37 



37 



35 



33 



20 



20 



18 



11 



9 



8 



7 



6 



5 



3 



Source: Anon., Food and Agriculture Organization (1945). 



yellowfin and bluefin tuna, albacore, skipjack, bonito, and yellowtail. Mackerel 

 and related species. Sharks and sharklike species. 



Anadromus Species: Migrate from the Sea to Fresh Water to Spawn. Salmon, 

 shad, and smelt. 



Catadromus Species: Migrate from Fresh Water to the Sea to Spawn. Eels. 



The relative importance of the above species in some of the countries for which 

 there are statistics may be noted in Table 27 (p. 204). 



Utilization of Catch 



About two-thirds of the world catch is marketed as fresh, frozen, canned, or 

 cured fishery products for human food. The remaining one-third is reduced to 

 fish meal and oil. Of the portion destined for human consumption about 40 per 

 cent is edible (Anon., 1945). 



Only rough estimates can be made of the world's production of processed 

 fishery products (Fiedler and Frank, 1944, Anon., 1945). It has been calculated, 

 however, that about 2 billion pounds of canned fish and about 3 billion pounds of 

 cured fish (dried, salted, and smoked) were produced from an annual catch of 

 39 billion pounds. Canned fish represented perhaps 4 billion pounds and cured 

 fish about 6 billion pounds. A significant part of the catch— as well as processing 



