APPENDIX IV APPENDIX IV 
United States dollar 
Beas, equivalent (note a) 
(millions) 
Whitefish (cod, 
haddock, saithe, 
plaice) 17 AND 1 $292,,535,,000 
Herring 329710 317 5505, 0010 
Other fatty fish 
(sprats, mackerel) 256% 2 HOFO2 SF O00 
Shellfish 140.6 20250010 
Totalyald, fish Ap Asie) $361,136,000 
®Recause it was our desire to present monetary data in terms 
of dollars, and for consistency, we selected a conversion 
rate of 1 pound to $2.35 (average rate 1974) and applied it 
throughout the United Kingdom profile. 
Cod, herring, haddock, sprats, and saithe, the five most 
important species, constitute approximately 70 percent of 
the United Kingdom's total fish catch. 
PROCESSING FACILITIES 
There are about 800 to 1,000 wholesale merchants buying 
fish at the numerous ports located throughout the United 
Kingdom. The ports are staffed by two or three to several 
hundred people. The nature of the work varies from filleting 
and packing to the production of frozen, smoked, or canned 
products. 
Most of the smaller firms are family businesses or 
partnerships. They usually have stands on or close to the 
market floor where their purchases are filleted and packed in 
ice in nonreturnable containers for distribution to inland 
wholesalers and retailers. 
Medium-sized firms primarily cut and package chilled 
fillets, or smoke-cure the fish. In recent years many in- 
dependent, medium-sized businesses have been taken over by 
larger processing plants. Many of these plants are company- 
run and often belong to a chain of factories. Precise figures 
are not available but probably well over half the United 
Kingdom's catch is processed by the five largest groups. 
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