﻿GENERAL 
  REVIEW 
  

  

  FOREIGN 
  FISHERY 
  TRADE 
  

  

  U.S. 
  foreign 
  trade 
  in 
  fishery 
  products 
  was 
  worth 
  a 
  record 
  $1.2 
  billion 
  — 
  an 
  increase 
  of 
  

   $208.2 
  million 
  compared 
  with 
  1969. 
  Imports 
  for 
  consumption 
  were 
  worth 
  $1.0 
  billion 
  — 
  $195.1 
  

   more 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  previous 
  year. 
  Exports 
  valued 
  at 
  $117.7 
  million 
  increased 
  $13 
  . 
  1 
  million 
  compared 
  

   with 
  1969. 
  

  

  Imports 
  of 
  edible 
  fishery 
  products 
  were 
  1.9 
  billion 
  pounds 
  worth 
  $812. 
  5 
  million--a 
  gain 
  of 
  

   10 
  percent 
  in 
  volume 
  and 
  15 
  percent 
  in 
  value 
  compared 
  with 
  1969. 
  Important 
  edible 
  items 
  received 
  

   in 
  greater 
  volume 
  were 
  fresh 
  or 
  frozen 
  tuna 
  (including 
  loins 
  and 
  discs), 
  groundfish 
  fillets 
  and 
  

   steaks, 
  flounder 
  fillets, 
  shrimp, 
  oysters, 
  scallops, 
  canned 
  sardines 
  in 
  oil, 
  unclassified 
  canned 
  

   fish 
  (chiefly 
  mackerel), 
  and 
  pickled 
  or 
  salted 
  herring. 
  Compared 
  with 
  1969, 
  imports 
  of 
  fresh 
  or 
  

   frozen 
  sea 
  herring, 
  northern 
  and 
  spiny 
  lobster, 
  and 
  canned 
  sardines 
  not 
  in 
  oil 
  declined. 
  

  

  Shrimp, 
  the 
  major 
  item 
  imported 
  with 
  respect 
  to 
  value, 
  accounted 
  for 
  25 
  percent 
  of 
  the 
  val- 
  

   ue 
  of 
  all 
  imported 
  edible 
  items. 
  Record 
  imports 
  of 
  about 
  218.7 
  million 
  pounds 
  (including 
  fresh 
  or 
  

   frozen, 
  canned, 
  and 
  cured) 
  worth 
  $200.0 
  million 
  were 
  received 
  from 
  73 
  countries. 
  Mexico, 
  India, 
  

   Panama, 
  Venezuela, 
  and 
  Guyana 
  were 
  among 
  the 
  principal 
  sources. 
  Mexico 
  supplied 
  33 
  percent 
  

   of 
  the 
  total 
  U.S. 
  imports 
  of 
  shrimp. 
  

  

  Imports 
  of 
  nonedible 
  fishery 
  products 
  were 
  valued 
  at 
  $226.9 
  million 
  — 
  a 
  gain 
  of 
  $87.4 
  mil- 
  

   lion 
  compared 
  with 
  1969. 
  Increases 
  occurred 
  principally 
  in 
  imports 
  of 
  fish 
  and 
  marine 
  animal 
  oil, 
  

   aquatic 
  leathers, 
  moss 
  and 
  seaweeds 
  , 
  marine 
  shells 
  and 
  buttons, 
  and 
  other 
  marine 
  animal 
  products 
  

   such 
  as 
  chemicals 
  and 
  nonmetalic 
  minerals 
  and 
  products 
  . 
  

  

  Exports 
  of 
  domestic 
  edible 
  fishery 
  products 
  were 
  140.7 
  million 
  pounds 
  worth 
  $9 
  5.2 
  million. 
  

   The 
  value 
  increased 
  10 
  percent, 
  but 
  the 
  volume 
  remained 
  about 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  1969. 
  Exports 
  of 
  

   domestic 
  nonedible 
  fishery 
  products 
  were 
  worth 
  $22.5 
  million--a 
  gain 
  of 
  $4.4 
  million 
  compared 
  

   with 
  1969. 
  

  

  Exports 
  of 
  foreign-produced 
  fishery 
  products 
  were 
  valued 
  at 
  $22.0million 
  — 
  31percent 
  more 
  

   than 
  in 
  1969. 
  A 
  sharp 
  increase 
  in 
  exports 
  of 
  fresh 
  or 
  frozen 
  shrimp 
  products 
  accounted 
  largely 
  for 
  

   the 
  gain 
  . 
  

  

  JtS: 
  

  

  