REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 



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Table 26. — Monthly cold storage holdings of frozen ciscoes during 1918, and increase 

 or decrease during each month. 



Month. 



Holdings 



Relative 



on fifteenth 



percent- 



of month. 



age. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



7,291,759 



100.0 



4,479,256 



61.4 



2,814,251 



38.6 



2,224,166 



30.5 



1,755,124 



24.1 



1,307,078 



17.9 



1,398,946 



19.2 



3,155,801 



43.3 



4,490,489 



61.6 



3,852,475 



52.8 



4,183,212 



57.4 



6,010,152 



82.4 



Increase or decreasse 

 during month. 



January __ 

 February- 

 March 



April 



May. 



June* 



July. 



August 



September 

 October. _. 

 November. 

 December. 



Pounds. 

 -2,812,503 

 -1,665,005 



- 590,085 



- 469,042 



- 448,046 

 + 91,868 

 + 1,756,855 

 + 1,334,688 



- 638,014 

 + 330,737 

 + 1,826,940 



- 915,344 



Per cent. 



- 38.6 



- 37.2 



- 21.0 



- 21.1 



- 25.5 

 + 7.0 

 + 125.6 

 + 42.3 



- 14.2 

 + 8.6 

 + 43.7 



- 15.2 



Table 27. — -Monthly cold storage holdings of frozen ciscoes during 1918 compared with 



those of 1917. 



Month. 



Reported for 1918. 





Comparison with 1917. 







Holdings 



Storages 









Storages 



reported 



reporting 



1917. 



1918 





reporting. 



on fifteenth 



for both 











of month. 



dates. 









Number. 



Pounds. 



Number. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



69 



7,291,759 



48 



1,824,299 



5,086,286 



+ 178.8 



69 



4,479,256 



49 



488,827 



1,926,919 



+ 294.2 



69 



2,814,251 



53 



486,093 



2,007,479 



+ 313.0 



65 



2,224,166 



51 



228,979 



1,488,695 



+ 550.1 



47 



1,755,124 



34 



64,688 



1,216,798 



+ 1781.0 



43 



1,307,078 



30 



172,992 



770,497 



+ 345.4 



44 



1,393,946 



32 



261,990 



1,054,768 



+ 302.6 



49 



3,15.5,801 



37 



1,018,432 



2,699.256 



+ 165.0 



54 



4,490,489 



41 



2.860,274 



3,890,162 



+ 36.0 



54 



3,852,475 



46 



4,275,436 



3,624,374 



- 15.2 



59 



4,183,212 



57 



5,837,282 



4,067,123 



- 30.3 



63 



6,010,152 



61 



9,455,063 



5,917,686 



- 37.4 



January.. 

 February. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 

 •December. 



COD, HAKE, POLLACK, HADDOCK. 



The cod is "one of the most important food fishes in the United 

 States. It is caught most extensively along the coasts of the Middle 

 States, New England and British America. It varies in weight from 

 3 to 75 pounds. It is caught with hand lines, trawls, nets, etc., and 

 is sold fresh, pickled, salted, and dried." The reports of the Bureau 

 of Markets deal only with the quantity that is frozen. With this 

 variety of fish the reports also include the stocks of hake, pollack, and 

 haddock that are frozen. "The so-called hakes are not hakes, but 

 are food fish found on the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland to 

 Cape Hatteras. The different species are known as 'old English hake,' 

 'squirrel hake,' 'white hake,' 'king hake,' 'codling,' etc. They are 

 often prepared under the trade name of boneless fish. They average 

 from 13^ to 2 feet in length and 3 to 8 pounds in weight, and are 

 caught near muddy bottoms with trawls and hand lines and in weirs 

 and traps." 



