. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Frozen scallops about to be battered and breaded at Gor- fish and shellfish products also had a good year; all the records point to the spectacular growth of this industry in 1966. The high dollar value paid to fishermen and the substantial gains of the processing indus- try were overshadowed by the marketing prob- lems facing segments of the fishing industry at the end of 1966. Imports and domestic cold-storage holdings of fillets and blocks inc reas e d steadily in 1966. Despite BCF monthly statistical data forewarning the fish- ing indus
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Frozen scallops about to be battered and breaded at Gor- fish and shellfish products also had a good year; all the records point to the spectacular growth of this industry in 1966. The high dollar value paid to fishermen and the substantial gains of the processing indus- try were overshadowed by the marketing prob- lems facing segments of the fishing industry at the end of 1966. Imports and domestic cold-storage holdings of fillets and blocks inc reas e d steadily in 1966. Despite BCF monthly statistical data forewarning the fish- ing industry, the accumulation of stocks con- tinued to the year's end. Then, stocks of canned seafood were about 25 percent greater than at the end of 1965. The problem of heavy holdings--canned and f rozen--was com- pounded by the purchase of supplies at high prices. RECORDS SET (Old Records in Parentheses) CATCH Total value: $454 million<1965: $445 mil- lion.) Crabs, king: million pounds (1965: million). The World Catch: billion pounds (1965: billion). PROCESSED FISHERY PRODUCTS Value of all fishery processed products: $ billion (1965: $ billion). Tuna, canned: 19,953,567 cases (1965: 18,098,804). Clams, canned, chowder and juice: million cases (1965: million). Fish portions: million pounds (1965: million). Breaded shrimp: 104 million pounds (1965: million). Fillets and steaks (other than groundfish): 92 million pounds (1965: million). IMPORTS Import value: $724 million (1965: $601 million). All fishery products: billion pounds, live-weight (1964: billion). Edible fishery products: billion pounds, live-weight (1965: billion). Industrial f is he ry products: billion pounds, live-weight (1964: billion). Tuna, albacore, frozen: million pounds (1965: million). Tuna, other than a Iba c or e, frozen: 208 million pounds (1964: million).. Please note that these images are extracted from s
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