FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES, 1923 ' 



By Oscar E. Sette 

 Assistant in Charge, Division of Fishery Industries 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 142 



Summary of operations 142 



Publications of the division. 142 



D ocuments 143 



Statistical bulletins 143 



Technological investigations 143 



Canning sardines 144 



Preservation of nets 144 



Iodine content of sea foods 145 



Production of certain fishery products in 1922 



and 1923 146 



Canned fishery products and by-products of the 



United States and Alaska, 1923... 147 



Canned fishery products 147 



Salmon 147 



Sardines. 149 



Shad and alewives 150 



Tuna and tunalike fishes 150 



Shrimp and crabs 151 



Clams 152 



Oysters 153 



Miscellaneous canned fishery products 153 



Exports of canned fishery products in 1923... 154 



By-products of the fisheries 155 



Fish oils.... 155 



Fish scrap and meal 155 



Liquid fish glue 156 



Shell by-products _ 156 



Menhaden industry 157 



Cold-storage holdings of frozen fish in 1923 158 



Quantities of fish frozen in 1923 160 



New England vessel fisheries 162 



General statistics 162 



Species 179 



Cod .: 179 



Haddock 179 



Hake... 179 



Pollock 179 



Cask . . 179 



Halibut. 180 



Mackerel 180 



Swordfish 180 



Flounders 180 



Herring 181 



Otter-trawl fishery. 181 



Vessel fisheries at Seattle, Wash. 183 



Fisheries of California, 1923... 185 



Fishery products received at municipal fish 



wharf and market, Washington, D. C 189 



Florida sponge fishery 191 



Shad and alewife fishery of the Potomac River, 



1922 and 1923 191 



Pearl-button industry, 1922 l92 



Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries, 1922 194 



Common and scientific names of fishes 194 



General statistics 194 



Products by apparatus 207 



Comparison with previous statistics 209 



Fisheries of Lake Pepin and Lake Keokuk. _ 210 



Wholesale fish trade 213 



Smoked-fish industry 213 



Alabama 214 



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 Fisheries of the Mississippi River and tribu- 

 taries, 1922 — Continued. 



Arkansas. 214 



lUinois 221 



Indiana 227 



Iowa 230 



Kansas 234 



Kentucky 236 



Louisiana .'.... 240 



Minnesota 245 



Mississippi. 248 



Missouri 253 



Nebraska 259 



Ohio 259 



Oklahoma. 261 



Pennsylvania 263 



South Dakota 263 



Tennessee 264 



Texas 269 



West Virginia 271 



Wisconsin 272 



Fisheries of the Great Lakes, Lake of the 



Woods, and Rainy Lake, 1922 275 



Earlier publications 275 



Common and scientific names of fishes of the 



Great Lakes 276 



General statistics 276 



Comparison with previous statistics 279 



Fisheries of Lake Superior 283 



Fisheries by States and counties 283 



Fisheries by apparatus 288 



Wholesale fishery trade... 292 



Fisheries of Lake Michigan 293 



Fisheries by States and counties 294 



Fisheries by apparatus 303 



Mussel fisheries of rivers tributary to Lake 



Michigan 315 



Wholesale fishery trade 318 



Fisheries of Lake Huron 318 



Fisheries by counties 318 



Fisheries by apparatus 321 



Wholesale fishery trade 327 



Fisheries of Lake St. Clair and St. Clair 



River 327 



Fisheries of Lake Erie 328 



Fisheries by States and counties 328 



Fisheries by apparatus 333. 



Mussel fisheries of rivers tributary to Lake 



Erie 340 



Wholesale fishery trade 341 



Fisheries of Lake Ontario B42 



Fisheries by counties 345 



Fisheries by apparatus 344 



Fisheries of the St. Lawrence River 348 



Fisheries of the Niagara River 348 



Fisheries considered by States 349 



Michigan 353 



Wisconsin 355 



New York 357 



Fisheries of Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, 

 and Lakes Kabetogama, Namakan, and 

 Sand Point 358 



' Appendix IV to the Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1924. B. F. Doc. 976. 



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