September 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



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The leading food finfish items landed in 

 1965 were alewives (36.2 million pounds), 

 swellfish (10,5 million pounds), and sea bass 

 (4.8 million pounds). Other finfish landings 

 topping the million-pound mark were scup, 

 butterfish, striped bass, fluke, croaker, spot, 

 sea trout, and shad. 



Washington 



SALMON FINGERLINGS PLANTED ON 

 YAKIMA INDIAN RESERVATION: 



Some 50,000 fingerling spring chinook 

 salmon were planted in the Klickitat River 

 on the Yakima Indian Reservation by the 

 Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with 

 the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department 

 of the Interior announced. The young salmon 

 were raised by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries 

 and Wildlife at the Willard National Fish 

 Hatchery in Washington and were transported 

 to the Klickitat River by truck. 



The young fish were released about mid- 

 August 1966 into the river at the McCormick 

 Meadows area above Castile Falls on the 

 slopes of Mount Adams in southwestern 

 Washington in an effort to populate the upper 

 reaches of the stream with natural- spawning 

 adult fish. Fisheries biologists expect that 

 the fingerlings, after journeying to the ocean, 

 will return as mature fish in 2 or 3 years to 

 the spot where they were released. 



"There is every reason to expect that, 

 with man's assistance, the Klickitat River 

 will ultimately become one of the great pro- 

 ducers of spring chinook salmon," said Dr. 

 L, Edward Perry, director of the Columbia 

 River Program Office of Interior's Bureau 

 of Commercial Fisheries. 



The Klickitat River has many miles of 

 natural spawning and rearing areas suitable 

 for spring chinook salmon and is one of the 

 last great undammed, undiverted and unpol- 

 luted natural streams of the Northwest. 

 Klickitat Hatchery, on the river, was con- 

 structed by the Federal Government and is 

 operated by the Washington Department of 

 Fisheries. It provides hatchery-raised coho 

 (silver) and spring and fall chinook to aug- 

 ment the natural run of salmon in the river. 



Under the Columbia River Fishery Devel- 

 opment Program of Interior's Fish and Wild- 



life Service, fishways have been constructed 

 at the mouth of the river and at the Castile 

 Falls in the headwaters to facilitate move- 

 ment of fish into that watershed. 



The planting of 50,000 fingerlings is aimed 

 at increasing fish population in the upper 

 reaches. It raises to about 250,000 the num- 

 ber of fingerlings planted in the Klickitat in 

 1966 by the Fish and WHdlife Service. 



Wholesale Prices 



EDIBLE FISH AND SHELLFISH, JULY 1966 : 



Because July 1966 prices for all fresh 

 finfish were higher than the previous month, 

 the wholesale price index for edible fishery 

 products (fresh, frozen, and canned) at 129.7 

 percent of the 1957-59 average rose 2.0 per- 

 cent. Compared with July 1965, the overall 

 index this July was up 18.1 percent as a re- 

 sult of higher prices for nearly all items. 

 July 1966 prices were sharply higher than 

 a year earlier for most fresh and frozen 

 fishery products and also for several canned 

 fish products which were in short supply. 



The subgroup index for drawn, dressed, 

 or whole finfish was up 11.6 percent from 

 June to July 1966 because of substantially 

 higher prices for nearly all items. At Bos- 

 ton, prices for ex-vessel large haddock were 

 sharply higher (up 51.5 percent) as a result 

 of light supplies; Lake Superior fresh white- 

 fish at Chicago by 17.8 percent; and Great 

 Lakes round yellow pike at New York City 

 by 14.7 percent. July wholesale prices were 

 up at New York City for fresh king salmon 

 (up 2.4 percent) and were slightly higher for 

 western fresh and frozen halibut (up 1.1 per- 

 cent). As compared with July 196 5, the sub- 

 group index this July was higher by 13.9 per- 



