The Fishery Industries of the United States Supplementing Exhibit of the United
The Fishery Industries of the United States Supplementing Exhibit of the United
United States. Bureau of Fisheries
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This fish, occurring along the entire Atlantic coast, is used almost wholly for the production of fish scrap for fertilizer purposes, fish meal for feeding hogs, cattle, and poultry, and fish oil used in the manu- facture of soap, paints, and various other articles. The catch of this 113. 7522 -2 6 THE FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. / fish exceeds that of any other species taken in United States waters, amounting to as much as 900, 000, 000 pounds annually. Other important fisheries a...re those for ciscoes or lake herring in the Great Lakes region, annual yield exceeding 50, 000, 000 pounds; ale- wives, or river herring, along the Atlantic seaboard, yield about 45, - 000, 000 pounds; squeteagues, occurring along the Atlantic seaboard, annual catch in excess of 40, 000, 000 pounds; shrimp, taken in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, California, and Alaska, yield approximately 44, 000, 000 pounds; mullet, taken chiefly in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, yield in excess of 40, 000, 000 pounds; crabs, taken princi- pally in the Middle Atlantic States section, yield exceeding 30, 000, 000 pounds; and shad, native to the Atlantic coast and transplanted to the Pacific coast, yield about 27, 000, 000 pounds.
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