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Vol. 28, No. 7 



coin-operated dispenser releases one con- 

 tainer at a time. Being manually -operated, 

 there is no need for electricity. 



The vendor is also adapted for vending 

 other items such as dough bait, worms, fish- 

 ing tackle, and even frozen bait, food, or cold 

 drinks when placed on a refrigerator unit. 

 The main purpose of the vendor is to have a 

 variety of bait and tackle available for the 

 fishermen at all times of day or night- -24 

 hours a day. (U. S. Patent No. 3,209,884 is- 

 sued Richard A. Stehling, Sr., Mason Route, 

 Fredericksburg, Texas.) 



* * * * * 



COMBINED CLAM AND 

 OYSTER OPENER: 



A patent was recently granted on an inex- 

 pensive combination clam and oyster opener 

 that is simple and rugged. 

 It eliminates cutting of the 

 hands of the operator. All 

 size clams and oysters can 

 be opened simply by rais- 

 ing or lowering the adjust - 

 able guide. A working 



model is available. (U, S. Patent No. 3,231,930 

 issued Theodore R. Berry, 16 Harriet St., 

 West Orange, N. J. 07052.) 



Maine Sardines 



CANNED STOCKS, APRIL 1966 : 



Canners stocks of Maine sardines on A- 

 pril 1, 1966, were down 2,000 cases from 

 those of the same date in 1965, and down 

 387,000 cases from stocks on hand 3 years 

 earlier. 



Preliminary data show the 1965 pack as 

 1,266,903 standard cases (100 cans 3|-oz.) 



canned in 23 plants in Maine. That was 46.3 

 percent more than the 865,751 cases packed 

 during 1964, when fishing was extremely poor. 

 The 1965 pack was 21,8 percent less than the 

 1,619,235 cases in 1963. 



The 1966 pack of Maine sardines through 

 March 19 totaled 30,651 standard cases, ac- 

 cording to the Maine Sardine council. The 

 pack during the same period a year earlier 

 totaled 19,883 cases. Fishing had been lim- 

 ited along the entire Maine coast due to ad- 

 verse weather conditions. 



The new law legalizing year-round canning 

 of Maine sardines removed the traditional De- 

 cember 1 closing date for the packing season. 

 The new legislation opened winter canning to 

 all Maine sardine packers and allows winter 

 canning with domestic as well as imported 

 herring. 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , April 1966 p. 28. 



Maine 



FISHERY LANDINGS, 1965 : 



Landings of fish and shellfish at Maine 

 ports in 1965 totaled 204.8 million pounds 

 valued at $21.9 million. Compared with 1964, 

 the quantity increased 6 percent, but the value 

 was about the same. Sea herring landings of 

 70.2 million pounds were 9.3 million pounds 

 above the 1964 total and accounted for the 

 greater part of the overall increase of 12.3 

 million pounds. 



Ocean perch landings amounted to 60.3 

 million pounds compared with 58.9 million 

 pounds in 1964. Knox County accounted for 

 61 percent of the total, while nearly all of the 

 remainder was landed in Cumberland County. 

 Landings of ocean perch taken from the Gulf 

 of Maine declined slightly in 196 5. 



Camied Maine Sardines — Wholesale Distributors' and Canners' Stocks, April 1, 1966, with Comparisons!/ 



Type 



Unit 



1965/66 Season 



4/1/66 1/1/66 11/1/65 



1964/65 Season 



7/1/65 6/1/65 4/1/65 1/1/65 11/1/64 



1963/64 



7/1/64 6/1/64 4/1/64 1/1/64 



Distributors 

 Canners 



1,000 actual ca^es 

 1,000 std. cases?/ 



234 

 312 



267 

 520 



289 

 689 



194 

 295 



198 

 203 



236 

 314 



238 

 538 



291 

 629 



234 

 514 



254 

 499 



291 

 658 



261 

 1,063 



1/Table represents marketing season from November 1 -October 31 



2_/100 3j -oz. cans equal one standard case. 



Note: Beginning with the Canned Food Report of April 1, 1963, U. S. Bureau of the Census estimates of distributors' stocks were based 

 on a revised sample of merchant wholesalers and warehouses of retail multiunit organizations. The revised sample resulted in better 

 coverage. The January 1, 1963, survey was conducted with both samples to provide an approximate measure of the difference in the 

 two samples. Tliat survey showed that the estimate of distributors' stocks of canned Maine sardines from the revised sample was 13 

 percent above that given by the old sample. 



Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Canned Food Report, April 1, 1966. 



