APPENDIX III APPENDIX III 
Products and processing 
Unlike most other species, the herring can be used to 
produce a wide variety of products. NMFS lists several uses 
that are made of herring in this country. For example, her- 
ring are used for bait and are filleted, canned as Maine sar- 
dines, made into spreads, salted, and smoked. Herring are 
also used in the production of meal, oil, and pearl essence. 
Lxported herring products include herring roe, and eggs on 
kelp. 
1972 Processed Value of Herring Products (note a) 
Product type Volume (pounds) Value 
(millions) 
Canned sardines (1.56 million cases) S239 
Fish and spreads ( .02 million cases) 4 
Salted: 
Cured and refrigerated AIS XS ho 5 
Fish 8.44 By sil 
Roe 26 55 
Eggs on kelp ao 9 
Smoked ~45 52 
Meal and scrap IO ©) 7/ 2 
Oil 5.06 “5 
Pearl essence (b) ial 
Bait By She: -4 
Total 542.4 
@Table does not include some products, such as fillets, which 
pwere not classified separately. 
Not available. 
Individual product totals do not add due to rounding. 
Atlantic herring are processed at plants principally in 
Maine where juvenile herring are canned as sardines. Process- 
ing sardines is a relatively labor-intensive canning opera- 
tion. The number of plants operating in Maine has declined 
from 23 in 1966 to 15 in 1976, due to strong foreign competi- 
tion and reduced availability of juvenile herring, according 
tO industry Officuals: 
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