. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Increased landings of alewives, anchovies, and Dungeness crabs helped to offset the total de- cline. The high average price per pound of the 1966 landings, despite the smaller catch, re- sulted from a smaller proportion of low-price industrial species and significantly higher prices paid tofishermen for food fish. Fish- ermen received a record average of cents per pound, compared with cents in 1965. Smaller volumes in 1966 of tuna, flounders, Atlantic sea herring, Atlantic ocean perch, scup, whiting, northern lobsters, and shrimp g
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Increased landings of alewives, anchovies, and Dungeness crabs helped to offset the total de- cline. The high average price per pound of the 1966 landings, despite the smaller catch, re- sulted from a smaller proportion of low-price industrial species and significantly higher prices paid tofishermen for food fish. Fish- ermen received a record average of cents per pound, compared with cents in 1965. Smaller volumes in 1966 of tuna, flounders, Atlantic sea herring, Atlantic ocean perch, scup, whiting, northern lobsters, and shrimp gave fishermen more money than larger land- ings of these same species in 1965. Processing Industry Had Good Year The billion-dollar fishery processing industry gained substantially and most seg- ments enjoyed a profitable year. There was a record pack of tuna, an excellent pack of salmon, and increases in packs of Maine sar- dines, clam products, alewives, and tunalike Fig. 1 - "Clean" catch consisting predominantly of pink shrimp. On the brighter side, there was a record catch of king crabs and significantly greater catches of Pacific salmon, the best since 1949. Fig. 2 - Production of breaded fish portions at Blue Water Sea- foods plant. A series of cuts with high-speed saws turns blocks into uniform portions desired. Canned fishery products werewortha rec- ord $551 million. The remarkable fish stick and portion industry established volume and value records--production was 228 million pounds worth nearly $100 million. Processors of breaded s h ri mp produced well over 100 million pounds to set a record worth nearly $100 million. Producers of fresh and frozen fillets had a relatively good year. The volume of groundfish fillets, as expected, was less, but other types of fillets were produced in record volume. Firms preparing fish and shellfish specialty dinners and other packaged. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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