REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 



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Table 22. — Monthly cold storage holdings of frozen bluefish during 1918, and increase 

 or decrease during each month. 



Month. 



Holdings 



Relative 



on fifteenth 



percent- 



of month. 



age. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



156,664 



56.9 



122,542 



44.5 



94,010 



34.1 



64,416 



23.4 



64,586 



23.5 



27,403 



10.0 



24,970 



9.1 



39,332 



14.3 



216,085 



78.5 



275,333 



100.0 



239.223 



86.9 



229,852 



83.5 



Increase or decrease 

 during month. 



January 



February.. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 

 October. _. 

 November 

 December. 



+ 



Pounds. 



34,122 

 28,532 

 29,594 

 170 

 37,183 



- 2,433 

 + 14,362 

 + 176,753 

 + 59,248 



- 36,110 



- 9,371 

 + 4,582 



+ 



Per cent. 



- 21.8 

 23.3 

 31.5 



0.3 

 57.6 



- 8.9 

 + 57.5 

 +449.4 

 + 27.4 



- 13.1 



- 3.9 

 + 2.0 



Table 23. — Monthly cold storage holdings of frozen bluefish during 1918 compared 

 , with those of 1917. 



Month. 



Reported for 1918. 





Comparison 



with 1917. 







Holdings 



Storages 









Storages 



> reported 



reporting 



1917 



1918 





reporting. 



on fifteenth 

 of month. 



for both 

 dates. 







decrease. 



Number. 



Pounds. 



Number. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



39 



156;664 



30 



242,037 



124,688 



- 48.5 



39 



122,542 



30 



15,980 



5,356 



- 66.5 



41 



94,010 



33 



105,586 



84,860 



- 19.6 



37 



64,416 



31 



45,516 



59,847 



+ 31.5 



30 



64,586 



24 



15,028 



43,270 



+ 187.9 



25 



27,403 



18 



79,010 



22,621 



- 71.4 



26 



24,970 



21 



124,867 



21,929 



- 82.4 



26 



39,332 



22 



83,845 



37,857 



- 54.8 



27 



216,085 



19 



43,451 



166,919 



+ 284.2 



35 



275,333 



30 



172,732 



265,328 



+ 53.6 



35 



239,223 



32 



209,430 



237,407 



+ 13.4 



34 



229,852 



33 



175,392 



224,852 



+ 28.2 



January. _. 

 February.. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 

 December. 



BUTTERFISH. 



This is "a food fish found on the Atlantic Coast fifom Mexico to 

 Florida. It is called 'butterfish' in Massachusetts and New York, 

 'harvestfish' in New Jersey, 'dollarfish' in Maine, 'sheepshead' and 

 'skipjack' about Gape Cod, 'pumpkin-seed' in Connecticut, and 'star- 

 fish' at Norfolk. It has an average length of 7 to 8 inches and is 

 caught in traps and pounds." 



On January 15, 1918, the reports showed 875,585 pounds of frozen 

 butterfish stored. These holdings were reduced to 97,113 by April 15. 

 The holdings then increased until November 15, except for a slight 

 decrease of a little less than 6,000 pounds from August 15 to Septem- 

 ber 15. On November 15, the holdings amounted to 1,308,423 pounds, 

 which was 11.2 per cent less than the stocks of the same date in 1917. 



