ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE WORLD'S FISHERIES 



229 



Million 

 Dollars 



150 ■ 



100 ■ 



IMPORTS 



I I 1 I 1 



1924 



1930 



1935 1940 1945 1948 



{Courtesy U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 



Fig. 12-5. United States imports and exports of fishery products, 1924-1948. 



Table 54. United States Foreign Trade in Fishery Products, 1935-1939 and 1948. 



Source: U. S. Bureau of the Census (Lund, 1946; Sallee and Wallar, 1949). 



valued at $5,056,856; and shells and buttons, valued at $3,704,860. Inedible ex- 

 ports consisted mainly of fish and marine animal oils, 19,714,551 pounds, valued 

 at $29,316,985. Edible exports were chiefly canned sardines including pilchards, 

 33,877,002 pounds, valued at $8,153,182; other canned fish, 41,808,427 pounds, 

 valued at $9,765,473; and canned shellfish, 15,679,936 pounds, valued at 

 $2,583,004. 



Imports have been stimulated by expanded fisheries in foreign countries and 

 their need for dollar exchange. Exports have diminished because of the dollar 

 shortage in former foreign markets and competition from newly developed or 

 expanded production in soft currency countries. 



Of the imports of fishery products in 1948 only those Hsted in Table 54A 

 (p. 230) entered the U. S. free of duty. 



From 1936 to 1940 the average duty collected on fish and fishery products 

 amounted to $6,257,386. 



