July 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



55 



U. S. 1/Airborne Imports of Fishery Products, Oct. -Dec. 1965 

 and the Year 1965 with Comparisons 



Product and 

 Origin 2/ 



Oct. -Doc. 1965 



Year 1965 



Year 1964 



Qty. 3/ 



Value 4/ 



Qty. 3/ 



Value 4 



Qty. 3/ 



Value 4/ 



Fish: 

 .All countries. . . . 



1,000 

 Lbs. 



198.9 



USS 

 1,000 



170.1 



1,000 

 Lbs. 



861.6 



USS 

 1,000 



821.3 



1,000 

 Lbs. 



438.1 



USS 



1.000 

 138.3 



Shrimp: 



416.2 

 103.4 



4.6 



291.0 

 73.5 



2.6 



9,247.4 



918.8 



104.8 



28.1 



60.3 



4,809.6 



606.0 



50.2 



19.1 



34.4 



7,120.4 



1,262.9 



350.4 



170.2 



133.5 



3,486.9 



789.4 



187.3 



102.8 



73.1 



Venezuela 



Panama 



Costa Rica 



El Salvador 



Other countries . . 



Total shrimp. . . 



524.2 



367.1 



10.359.4 



5.519.3 



9.037.4 



4.639.5 



Shellfish other than 



0.3 



15.4 



98.9 



18.3 



9.6 



2.0 



24.4 



114.1 



0.3 



21.9 



162.6 



27.9 



5.1 



2.9 



32.0 



131.3 



25.8 

 24.1 



270.0 

 43.1 



119.1 

 15.9 

 78.1 



260.8 



9.5 

 31.8 



345.5 

 44.6 



120.1 

 16.2 

 91.4 



251.0 



316.6 

 14.4 



368.5 

 80.3 

 70.7 

 62.1 

 75.6 



128.3 



175.2 

 9.9 



337.3 

 82.6 

 69.1 

 54.7 

 83.4 



104.6 



shrimp: 



Canada 



Mexico 



British Honduras 



Honduras 



Nicaragua 



Costa Rica 



Jamaica 



Other countries . . 



Total shellfish (ex 

 cept shrimp) 



283.0 



384.0 



836.9 



910.1 



1.116.5 



916.8 



Grand total .... 



1,006.1 



921.2 



12J)57.9 



7,250.7 



10,592.0 



5,694.6 



lylmpom into Puerto Rico from foreign cououies are considered lo be United States iinports and 

 are included. Bui United Stales trade with Puerto Rico and witJi United States possessions and 



2/When the country of origin is not luiown, the country of shipment is shown. 



3/GIOJ3 weight of shipments, including the weight of containers, wrappings, crates, and moisture 



4/r.o.b. point of shipment. I3oes not include U. S. import duties, air freight, or insurance. 



Note; These data ar« included in the overaU import figures for total imports, i.e., these im- 

 ports are not to be added to other import data published. 



Source: United Stales Exports fi Imports by Air, FT 785. January through December 1965, U. S. Bu- 

 reau of Uic Census. 



shrimp were shipped by air from Vene- 

 zuela. 



The data as issued do not show the state 

 of all products- -fresh, frozen, or canned-- 

 but it is believed that the bulk of the airborne 

 imports consists of fresh and frozen prod- 

 ucts. 



Wholesale Prices 



EDIBLE FISH AND SHELLFISH, MAY 1966: 

 Wholesale prices for edible fishery prod- 

 ucts (fresh, frozen, and canned) were up 

 slightly in May 1966. At 126.9 percent of the 

 1957-59 average, the index rose 0.3 percent 

 from April to May. As compared with May 

 1965, the overall index this May was up 16.2 

 percent. May 1966 prices were considerably 

 higher for all items --sharply higher for 

 some --than in the same month a year ear- 

 lier. The exception was in prices for can- 

 ned Maine sardines which were at the same 

 level as May 1965. 



The subgroup index for drawn, dressed, 

 or whole finfish rose 2.8 percent from April 

 to May. The index rise was due largely to 

 higher prices at Boston for ex-vessel large 



haddock (up 10.3 percent) because of lighter 

 supplies, and higher prices at Chicago for 

 Lake Superior fresh whitefish (up 33.3 per- 

 cent). May 1966 prices for western king salm- 

 on (up 0.3 percent) were slightly higher than 

 in the previous month but remained unchanged 

 for western halibut. Supplies of those species 

 in May were still mostly frozen and market 

 receipts of the fresh product from the early 

 seasonal fishery were not much more than a 

 trickle. Compared with May 1965, pricesthis 

 May were higher by 13.0 percent. Prices 

 were higher than in the same month a year 

 earlier for all items in the subgroup, with 

 substantial increases for large haddock (up 

 37.2 percent), whitefish (up 20.6 percent), 

 halibut (up 17.3 percent), and yellow pike (up 

 15.4 percent). 



Shows shellfish section of New York City's wholesale Fulton 

 Fish Market. 



Lower prices in May 1966 for fresh small 

 haddock fillets at Boston (down 6.3 percent), 

 and shucked standard oysters (down 1.5 per- 

 cent) were offset by higher prices for fresh 

 South Atlantic shrimp at New York City (up 

 9.1 percent). As a result, the subgroup price 

 index for processed fresh fish and shellfish 

 rose 3.6 percent from April to May. As com- 

 pared with May 196 5, the subgroup index this 

 May was 13.4 percent higher because of sub- 

 stantially higher prices for all items in the 

 subgroup. May 1966 fresh shrimp prices were 

 up 14.3 percent from the same month a year 

 earlier, small haddock fillets (up 13.6 percenlj, 

 and shucked standard oysters (up 12.2 percent). 



The May 1966 subgroup index for process- 

 ed frozen fish and shellfish rose only slightly 

 from the previous month (up 0.7 percent). 

 Prices were higher than in April at Boston for 

 ocean perch fillets (up 1.6 percent) and for fro- 

 zen shrimp (up 0.9 percent) at Chicago. May 

 prices remained unchanged for frozen floun- 



