FISH MEAL AND OIL 



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Table 100. United States Production of Marine-Animal Scrap and Meal, 1948. 



The 1948 production of fish and marine-animal scrap and meal in the United States 

 and Alaska amounted to 199,519 tons, valued at $23,086,734 to the producer. This was 

 an increase of 7 per cent in volume and 3 per cent in value compared with the previous 

 year. The production of menhaden scrap and meal, which exceeded 100,000 tons for the 

 first time, accounted for over half the volume and value of the 1948 production. Due 

 to the continued failure of tlie pilchard fishery in California, the yield of pilchard meal 

 amounted to only 19,076 tons — only 16 per cent of the record 1936 production of 

 121,739 tons. 



Total 



139,479 15,500,747 60,040 7,585,987 199,519 23,086,734 



^ Includes small production of unclassified meal in Minnesota and shark meal in 

 Florida. 



2 A small production of acidulated scrap has been included with dry scrap and meal. 



^ Included with West Coast production. 



* Includes Florida production. 



^ Includes production of cod-liver press cake, fish pomace, and alewife, horseshoe crab, 

 lobster, and miscellaneous fish scrap and meal. 



^ Includes a small production of unclassified meal in Minnesota, and dungeness crab 

 and miscellaneous scrap and meal on the Pacific Coast. 



1948 was 19,076 tons, valued at $2,614,616, and the oil production was 2,328,572 

 gallons, valued at $2,457,858. 



Production of herring meal and oil is common to Alaska and to the Atlantic, 

 Gulf, and Pacific coasts. In 1948 production of this species amounted to 17,686 

 tons of meal, valued at $2,065,042, and 3,631,815 gallons of oil, worth $3,992,854. 



The greater portion of these three species of fish are caught by means of purse 

 seines although some herring in Maine and the Chesapeake Bay areas are taken 



