308 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
THE HARVEST OF THE SEA 
As space limitations have prevented more than a brief mention 
of a few of the marine plants, grazers, and carnivores, so they also 
preclude here all but a few statistics concerning the harvest which 
man takes from the sea. Accompanying these figures are diagram- 
matic summaries of the Pacific salmon and the world’s herring fish- 
Figure 4.—World production of herring. 
European production, including Iceland, 3,000 million pounds. 
Eastern coast of North America, 225 million pounds. 
Western coast of North America, 350 million pounds. 
Japanese production, 700 million pounds. 
Siberian production, unknown. 
(Courtesy Fish and Wildlife Service.) 
eries because they pertain to fishes for two species of which food rela- 
tions diagrams are given above. 
As great as these graphically presented harvests are, perhaps the 
most spectacular is the harvest resulting from the whale fisheries of 
the world, which in 1938 accounted for about 55,000 whales of all 
kinds. The principal product of this harvest is whale oil, which had 
