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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 9 



Wholesale Average Prices and Indexes for Edible Fish and Shellfish, July 1966 with Comparisons 



Group, Subgroup, and Item Specification 



Point of 

 Pricing 



Unit 



Avg. Prices 1/ 

 ($) ~ 



Indexes 

 (1957-59=100) 



ATT FTSH ^ SHFI^LFISH fPrftsh Frozen &, Canned'i 







July 

 1966 



June 

 1966 



July 

 1966 



129.7 



June 

 1966 



127.2 



May 

 1966 



126.9 



July 

 1965 



109.8 





Fresh & Frozen Hshei-y Products: 



133.3 



128.3 



127.8 



112.8 



Drawn, Dressed, or Whole Fintish: . 



1S5.6 



121.5 



119.9 



119.0 



Haddock, Ige., offshore, drawn, fresh 



Halibut, West., 20/80 lbs., drsd., fresh or froz. 

 Salmon, king, Ige. & med., drsd., fresh or froz. 



Whitefish,L. Superior, drawn, fresh 



YeUow pike, L. Michigan & Huron, rnd., freshv 



Boston 

 New York 

 New York 

 Chicago 

 New York 



lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 



.18 



,49 

 .96 

 .63 

 .70 



.12 

 .48 

 .94 

 .54 

 .61 



14S.6 

 144.2 

 134.5 

 94.0 

 114.6 



94.8 



142.7 



131.3 



79.8 



99.9 



101.5 

 140.5 

 120.9 

 104.4 

 122.8 



9U 

 147.9 

 125.8 



87.3 

 102.3 



Processed. Fresh fFish & Shellfish): 





130.1 



132.4 



134.8 



108,6 



Fillets, haddock, sml., skins on, 20 -lb. tins . . 

 Shrimp, Ige. (26-30 count), headless, fresh • ■ 

 Oysters, shucked, standards , . 



Boston 

 New York 

 Norfolk 



lb. 

 lb. 

 gal. 



.45 

 1.10 

 8.00 



.41 

 1.15 

 8.00 



109.3 

 128.9 

 134.9 



99.6 

 134.7 

 134.9 



gji 



140.6 

 134.9 



97.2 

 100.8 

 120.2 





Processed Frozen ^Pish 8c Shellfish): 



128.0 



125.5 



123.8 



105.7 



Fillets: Flounder, skinless, 1-lb. pkg. .... 



Haddock, srhU, skins on, 1 -lb. pkg. . . 



Ocean perch, Ige., skins on 1-lb. pkg. . 

 Shrimp, Ige. (26-30 count), brown, 5-lb. pkg. . 



Boston 

 Boston 

 Boston 

 Chicago 



lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 



.43 



.40 



.33 



1.15 



.43 



.39 



.33 



1.12 



109.0 

 115.8 

 U4.0 

 136.3 



109.0 

 114.3 

 U4.0 

 132.8 



109.0 

 112.9 

 114.0 

 130.4 



97.6 

 108.5 

 U2.2 

 103.7 



Canned Flshprv Products* 



123.8 



125.6 



125.6 



104.9 



Salmon, pink. No. 1 tall (16 oz.), 48 cans/cs. . . . 

 Tuna, It. meat, chunk. No. 1/2 tuna (6-1/2 oz.), . 



Seattle 

 Los Angeles 

 Los Angeles 

 New York 



cs. 

 cs. 

 cs. 

 cs. 



28.50 



13.20 



8.00 



10.25 



28.50 



13.69 



8.00 



10,25 



124.2 

 117.2 

 135.6 

 131.5 



124.2 

 121.5 

 135.6 

 3.31.5 



124.2 

 121.5 

 135.6 

 131.5 



95.9 

 102.6 

 120.9 



Mackerel, jack, Calif., No.l tall (15 oz.), .... 

 48 cans/cs 



Sardines, Maine, keyless oil, 1/4 drawn 

 (3-3/4 oz.). 100 cans/cs 



1/Represent average prices for one day (Monday or Tuesday) during the week in which the 15th of the month occurs. Ihese 

 ~ prices are published as indicators of movement and not necessarily absolute level. Daily Market News Service "Fishery 



Products Reports" should be referred to for actual prices. 

 Source: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 



cent. Prices were generally higher for most 

 items --sharply higher for fresh haddock (up 

 57.1 percent) and yellow pike (up 12.0 per- 

 cent). July 1966 prices for whitefish were 

 up 7.7 percent and for king salmon up 6.9 per- 

 cent from the same month a year earlier but 

 werelower by 2.5 percent for western halibut. 



Although July 1966 prices for fresh had- 

 dock fillets at Boston rose 9.7 percent from 

 the previous month, they were offset by a 

 price drop at New York City for South Atlan- 

 tic fresh shrimp (down 4.3 percent). This 

 brought the fresh processed subgroup index 

 down 1.7 percent from the previous month. 

 July 1966 prices at Norfolk for shucked stan- 

 dard oysters were unchanged for the 3 -month 

 period since May but as compared with July 

 1965 were higher by 12.2 percent. Compared 

 with July 1965, the subgroup index this July 

 was up 19.8 percent. Prices were substan- 

 tially higher for all items, but the greatest in- 

 crease was for fresh shrimp (up 27.9 percent). 



The July 1966 subgroup index for pro- 

 cessed frozen fish and shellfish rose 2.0 per- 

 cent from the previous month. Prices were 



2.6 percent higher at Chicago for frozen 

 shrimp and at Boston were up 1.3 percent 

 for frozen haddock fillets; there were no 

 changes for other items in the subgroup. 

 This July the subgroup index was 21.1 per- 

 cent higher than in the same month in 1965 

 because of higher prices for all items--sub- 

 stantially higher for frozen shrimp (up 31.4 

 percent) and flounder fillets (up 11.7 percent). 



The wholesale price index for canned fish- 

 ery products dropped 1.4 percent from June 

 to July as a di]^e•ct result of lower prices for 

 canned tuna (down 3.5 percent). Prices for 

 other canned fish items were unchanged. As 

 compared with the same month a year earlier, 

 the index this July was 18.0 percent higher. 

 Prices were sharply higher for canned pink 

 salmon (up 29.5 percent) because of the very 

 light 1965 pack; prices for canned tuna were 

 up 14.2 percent and jack mackerel up 12.2 

 percent. July prices for canned Maine sar- 

 dines were steady and at the same level as in 

 the previous month. (U. S. Department of the 

 Interior, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 Fishery Market News Service.) 



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