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graph (c) of Appendix A to read as 

 follows; 



(24) All salmon and salmon products. In 

 any form: and all other flsb, shellflsb, sea- 



food, and the products thereof, except when 

 sterilized in hermetically sealed containers. 



(Sec. 704, Pub. Law 774, 81st Cong.) 



Effective date. This amendment shall 



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become effective June 29, 1951. 



DirectoT 

 June 29, 1951. 



Michael V. DiSalle, 

 Director of Price Stabilization. 



GAMED SALMON CEILING PRICES ESTABLISHED ; Specific dollars and cents ceiling 

 prices for sales by canners of the 1951 pack of canned salmon have been established 

 by the Office of Price Stabilization at generally lower levels than General Ceiling 

 Price Regulation ceilings, that agency announced August 1. These prices are con- 

 tained in CPR 65— Ceiling Prices for Canned Salmon. 



OPS explained that while the new ceilings allow for increased costs over 1949, 

 the base year used in determining the prices, they are lower than post-Korea because 

 GCPR froze prices of canned salmon at abnormal highs. 



The new ceilings have been established by adding to the prices which canners 

 received for the bulk of the 1949 pack certain increased unit costs incurred since 

 then. 



OPS said these cost elements, vdiich include canning labor, raw fish, packing 

 materials, freight, and warehousing, account for a substantial part of the total 

 cost of canned salmon. 



The established ceilings for three items which represent more than 50 percent 

 of the total pack range from $19 for a case of 48 one-pound tall cans of chum sal- 

 mon, to $21 a case for pink salmon and $29 for Alaska reds in one-pound tall cans. 



Ceilings for some other items which represent smaller proportions of the pack 

 range from $18 a case for 48 half-pound flat cans of Alaska reds to $21 for a case 

 of half-pound flat cans of Columbia River Chinook fancy. 



These ceiling prices are f.o.b, car at Seattle, Everett, and Bellingham, Wash,, 

 and Astoria, Oregon, for salmon canned in Alaska and f.o.b. car at the shipping 

 point nearest the cannery for salmon canned in the continental United States. 



Wholesale and retail ceilings are established under the grocery regulations, 

 CPR 14, 15, and 16 which permit specified markups. 



OPS said the effect of the salmon regulation on retail prices would be a re- 

 duction in ceilings of about five to eight percent. 



The salmon ceiling price regulation (CPR 65), issued July 31, 1951, and effec- 

 tive August 8, 1951, establishes prices only for the 1951 pack and the small carry- 

 over from 1950. 



OPS said should the 1951 pack actually be abnormally large or small the ceil- 

 ings would be promptly revised to reflect more accurately the changes in unit costs. 



One of the many reasons for issuing the regulation at this time, the agency 

 said, is the fact that the industry is subject to peculiar conditions, such as 

 limitations on natural supply and extreme seasonal variations in the availability 

 of fish from year to year and among different localities. 



