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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 

 Products of the menhaden industry, 1923 



Products 



Massachusetts, Con- 

 necticut, and New 

 York 



New Jersey and Del- 

 aware 



Virginia 



Fish utilized: Menhaden 

 number.. 



Manufactured products: 



Dry scrap and fish meal. tons. . 

 Acidulated scrap do.. 



Total 



Oil gallons.. 



Grand total 



Quantity ' Value 

 270,688,228 I $1,083,007 



Quantity i Value Quantity 

 142, 774, 000 I $598, 584 |39D, 377, 144 



1,730 

 21, 250 



34,300 

 494, 250 



852 

 11,445 



. 38, 340 

 261, 563 



28,944 



22, 980 



528, 550 



12,297 299,903 



28,944 



2, 479, 235 | 1, 097, 127 



909,050! 411,805 1 2,717,922 1,206,757 



1, 625, 677 



Value 

 $1, 523. 064 



1, 402, ZGi 



1, 402, 303 



711,708 I 2,609.000 



1 666,174,873 pounds. 



2 Of this quantity 10,004 tons, valued at $357,178, were reported as fish meal. 



COLD-STORAGE HOLDINGS OF FROZEN FISH IN 1923 



The statistics of the cold-storage holdings of frozen fish and the 

 quantity of fish frozen are collected by the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics, Department of Agriculture. These statistics were 

 collected by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, from October, 1916, to June, 1922. The reports 

 give the holdings on the 15th of each month. Through the courtes}^ 

 of that bureau arrangements were made in December, 1921, for the 

 Bureau of Fisheries to publish and disseminate this information, 

 beginning with the returns for January 15, 1922, in the form of 

 a monthly statistical bulletin. This bulletin gives the holdings by 

 species and sections, total holdings for the current month and for the 

 same month the previous year, the 5-year average, holdings for 

 the previous month, and the quantity of each species frozen dur- 

 ing the month and during the same month the previous year. 



In 1923 the cold-storage holdings of fish, as compared with 1922, 

 were smaller from January to June and larger from Jul}^ to December 

 being smallest in April and largest in December. 



The following table gives the total holdings of all the freezers in 

 1923 which were devoted wholly or in part to the cold storage of 

 fish, together with the totals for- the years 1917 to 1922, inclusive, 

 for comparison : 



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