. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. December 1951 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 21 at percent of the 1935-39 average, but was still percent higher than on October 15, 1950. However, fresh and frozen fishery products prices at retail in mid-October this year were percent higher than in mid-September and percent above mid- October 1950. To compensate for the increase in fresh and frozen fish and shellfish, canned pink salmon continued to decline. The retail index for canned pink salmon in mid- October was reported at percent of the 1938-39 average— perc
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. December 1951 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 21 at percent of the 1935-39 average, but was still percent higher than on October 15, 1950. However, fresh and frozen fishery products prices at retail in mid-October this year were percent higher than in mid-September and percent above mid- October 1950. To compensate for the increase in fresh and frozen fish and shellfish, canned pink salmon continued to decline. The retail index for canned pink salmon in mid- October was reported at percent of the 1938-39 average— percent lower than during the same period a year earlier, but percent lower than the previous month• ARF GOOD THF YEAR-AROUND The wide-spread notion that oysters are harmful to consuners when eaten during the "non-R" months is debunked by the Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service in a statement issued on September l,the opening date of the traditional oyster season. "Oysters are edible the year-around," the Assistant Surgeon General declares, "but they are fatter, more palatable and more plentiful on the market during those months that contain the letter 'R*. It is only coincidental that those months in which the oyster is most palatable happen to be the 'R' ; The Assistant Surgeon General said the tradition that oysters must be eaten only in the ."R" months may have originated somewhat ae follows: In that species of oyster eaten in the Old World for centuries, fer- tilization of the seed from which the baby oys- ters grow takes place within the shell of the _ parent oyster- Shortly before the baby oysters Hare ejectedby the parent / to fend for themselves, they begin to develop a shell. If the Old World oyster is eaten at this stage of incubation, the large number of almost microscopic baby oysters, each developing a shell, impart a gritty quality to the meat. Because the market. reproductive pe
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