APPENDIX III APPENDIX III 
Table I 
Commercial Landings of Tuna, 1970-75 (note a) 
Atlantic, Gulf Puerto 
Year and Pacific States Rico Total 
Soa es ie ee GOO) Ci skis BS 
1970 393,494 b 84,852 478,346 
ILS) 7/Al 346,146 5128,770 474,916 
1972 387,032 b147,668 534,700 
IO)7/s: SAG Swill 17,2, 492 Bybe) P05 8) 
1974 386,185 GOO Sil SUS)? 
1975 39 Ag b177,100 568,249 
a Expressed in vounds. 
b Includes a small quantity of fish landed in American Samoa 
by United States vessels. 
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, "Fisheries of the United 
States, L975" 
Products and processing 
During 1974, according to a report by the Tuna Research 
Foundation, the U.S. tuna processing industry packed canned 
tuna valued at $820 million at the processor level, $102 
million of petfood, and $17.4 million of tuna fishmeal and 
Olly, for va total value of S939 74emielilvon. (Canneds cunams 
the largest segment of the domestically produced canned fish 
market, representing, in 1974, 69 percent of the market's 
volume and about an equal amount of its value. 
The two major U.S. tuna canning areas are in California 
and Puerto Rico. The percent of total pack processed 
(at 3-year intervals) was as follows: 
Year California Puerto Rico Other 
1965 49.8 26.9 BS} 5 8} 
1968 Aa 2 S240 DP? BAS) 
IS) 7/al 43.8 BA9 Aah 3 
1974 ABS Are: 16.4 
Source: Tuna Research Foundation 
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