. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. January 1961 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 29 Table 1 - Canned Maine Sardines—Wholesale Distributors' and Canners' Stocks, November 1, 1960, With Comparisons!/ Type 11/1/fiO 77r/60|6/l/60|4/l/60|l/l760|ll/l/59 7717591 6/1/59J4/1/5911/1/59 Distributors 1,000 actual cases Canners 1,000 std. cases2-' 277 1,258 172 359 197 235 252 397 235 843 296 1,001 176 422 197 272 254 474 268 891 I/Table represents marketing season from November 1-October 31. 2/100 3-j -oz. cans equal one standard case. Correction: Heading of last 5 columns of Table 1 which a
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. January 1961 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 29 Table 1 - Canned Maine Sardines—Wholesale Distributors' and Canners' Stocks, November 1, 1960, With Comparisons!/ Type 11/1/fiO 77r/60|6/l/60|4/l/60|l/l760|ll/l/59 7717591 6/1/59J4/1/5911/1/59 Distributors 1,000 actual cases Canners 1,000 std. cases2-' 277 1,258 172 359 197 235 252 397 235 843 296 1,001 176 422 197 272 254 474 268 891 I/Table represents marketing season from November 1-October 31. 2/100 3-j -oz. cans equal one standard case. Correction: Heading of last 5 columns of Table 1 which appeared under this section on p. 24 of the September 1960 issue of this Re- view should have read "1958/59 Season" instead of "1957/58 ; The columns headed "11/1/60" should have read "11/1/59.' pack of 1,948,000 cases as of November 1, 1960, made the available supply as of that date 2,283,000 cases--slightly more than the available supply of 2,121,000 cases on November 1, 1959. Shipments from Novem- ber 1, 1959, to November 1, 1960, totaled 1,025,000 cases as compared to 1,120,000 cases for the previous period. CANNING SEASON ENDS: The 1960 Maine sardine canning season officially closed on December 1, with a pack of approximately 1,975,000 cases. This is well above last year's production of 1,750,000 cases which was below normal due to a scar- city of fish. The Maine Sardine Council's Executive Secretary said that 31 plants, located from Portland to Robbinston, were in operation for most of the season which got under way on June 1. Several thousand persons were em- ployed in canning the pack, which would have a market value of about $18 million. Fishing in the Port- land area was very spotty which limited production there while the eastern Washing- ton County section had the best catch of fish in a number of "^ years, and conditions in the middle section of the coast were about normal. "Market conditions are good and the in-
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