Wholesale Average Prices and Indexes for Edible Fish and Shellfish, October 1966 with comparisons 



Group, Subgroi^, and item Specification 



Point of 

 Pricing 



unit 



Avg. Prices 1/ 

 ($) ~ 



Indexes 

 (1957-59=a00) 









oa. 



1966 



Sept. 

 1966 



oa. 

 1966 



131.3 



S^t. 

 1966 



131.4 



Aug. 

 1966 



129.5 



Oct. 

 1965 



118.0 





Pi-esh Rr "Pirozen "Flsherv Products; „.,„.„« o •>,. oo ... . 



136a 



137.0 



133.5 



121.7 



Drawn Dressed, or Whole Flnnsh; „.. o ^ ..«...<...•■ . 



136.2 



135.6 



131.8 



131.9 



Haddock, Ige., offshore, drawn, fresh. .... 

 Halibut, West., 20/80 lbs., drsd.. fresh or ft^. 

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

 Whitefidi,L.Si¥€a:ior, drawn, fresh ..... 

 Yellow pike, L.Iiflchigan & Huron, md., fresh 



Boston 

 New York 

 New York 

 Chicago 

 New York 



lb. 



lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 



.21 



.47 

 .93 

 .62 

 .67 



.15 



.48 



1.00 



.83 



.88 



164.0 

 139.0 

 129.6 

 91.8 

 108.9 



114.5 



142.0 

 139.7 

 123a 

 143.2 



109.9 

 142.0 

 136.2 

 109.7 

 145.7 



181.0 



142.0 



117.0 



78.3 



99,9 



Processed. Fresh f Fish & Shellfish^: 



138a 



137.6 



130.9 



119a 



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

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

 Oysters, daicked, standards 



Boston 

 New York 

 Norfolk 



lb. 



lb. 

 gal. 



.54 



ia2 



8.75 



.45 

 1.11 



9.00 



131.2 

 131.2 

 147.5 



109.3 

 130a 

 151.8 



111.8 

 130.1 

 134.9 



119.0 

 101.4 

 U1,2 



Processed. Flrozen f Fish & SheUflsh): 



128.6 



132.0 



131.5 



107.6 



Fillets: Flounder, dtinless, 1-lb. f^g 



Haddock, sml., skins on, l-lB. pkg. 



Ocean perch, Ige., skins on 1-U). pkg. 

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



Boston 

 Boston 

 Boston 

 Chicago 



lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 

 lb. 



.43 

 .40 

 .32 



ia6 



.42 



.41 



.32 



1.20 



109.0 

 115.8 

 110.5 

 137.5 



106.4 

 118.7 

 112.2 

 142.3 



109.0 

 115.8 

 114.0 

 142.3 



looa 



117.3 

 107.0 

 102.6 



Canned Fishery Piwhicts: • • 



123.3 



122.0 



122.9 



113.0 



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

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

 48 cans/cs 



Seattle 

 Los Angeles 

 Los Angeles 

 New Yoik 



OS. 

 cs. 

 cs. 

 cs. 



28.00 



12.95 



8.00 



11.25 



28.00 



12.95 



8.00 



10.25 



122.0 

 105.0 

 135.6 

 144.3 



122.0 

 115.0 

 135.6 

 131.5 



124.2 

 115.0 

 135.6 

 131.5 



317.7 

 102.6 

 120.9 

 121.9 



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 week in which 15th of month occurs. Prices are pub- 

 Reports" for actual prices. 

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



product). October prices for Great Lakes 

 fresh fish were down considerably from Sep- 

 tember's high Jewish Holiday levels. Com- 

 pared with October 1965, the subgroup index 

 this October was up 3.3 percent; prices were 

 up for salmon and fresh-water fish species. 



Haddock Prices Higher 



Substantially higher prices for fresh had- 

 dock fillets (up 20 percent) were largely re- 

 sponsible for 0.4 -percent rise in subgroup 

 index for fresh, processed, fish and shell- 

 fish. Prices at New York City for South At- 

 lantic fresh shrimp rose 0.8 percent from 

 September, but prices dropped for standard 

 shucked oysters (down 2.8 percent). The in- 

 dex was 16 percent above October 1965; 

 prices for all subgroup items were higher. 



Prices declined from September in sub- 

 group for processed, frozen, fish and shell- 



fish; index dropped 2.6 percent from Septem- 

 ber. The exception was flounder fillets (up 

 2.4 percent). Chicago prices for frozen 

 shrimp were down 4 cents a pound from Sep- 

 tember but were still sharply higher than a 

 year earlier. The October 1966 index was 

 19.5 percent higher than October 1965, be- 

 cause of higher prices for all items except 

 haddock fillets. 



Higher prices from September to October 

 for canned Maine sardines (up 9.7 percent) 

 were responsible for a 1.1 percent rise in in- 

 dex for canned fishery products. October 

 prices for other canned fish were the same 

 as September's. The 1966 pack of Maine sar- 

 dines through October was 1.1 million stand- 

 ard cases--about 9 percent below the 1965 

 period. October 1966 prices were higher 

 than October 1965 prices for all canned fish 

 products; the subgroup index was up 9.1 per- 

 cent. (BCF Market News Service.) 



