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Total landings at the three ports for the year 1943 amounted to 331,363,060 pounds, valued to the fishermen at $22,520,198. Compared with 1942, this was a decline of 11 percent in volume, due for the most part, to the following decreases in receipts: haddock, 20 million pounds; rosefish, 14 million pounds; pollock, 8 million pounds; and whiting, 6 million pounds. Mackerel deliveries increased 8 million pounds. The total weighted average value for 1943, 6.80 cents per pound, compared with a figure of 5.18 cents per pound for 1942.

Considering the landings by ports, receipts at Boston and Portland decreased 27 and 11 percent, respectively, from the previous year, while those at Gloucester increased 8 percent.

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680,812 8.26

Pollock

2,316,328 6.91 5,398,816 4.48

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40,824 7.37

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388 19.85

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188,095 7.56
5,599 18.00
395,890 12.18

2,405 42.20 57.990 9.12

97,894 8.82

133,173 9.00

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2,234,986 8.97

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22,085 20.41

1,102,411 10.96

1,412,085 10.18

178,900 7.28

2,939,803 6.99

5,613,651 4.02

83,685 10.17

1,263,453 8.16

1,334,838 6.19

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153,590 8.23
4,170

2,983,021 5.97

2,763,260 4.38

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16,935 7.42 34,190 35.00 521,479

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597,882 7.66

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149.349 7.19 11,946,196 7.68 9,210,524 5.60 11,304,027 5.03 627.914 5.96 808,344 5.14

12,388,970 8.35 331,363,060 6.80 372,967.905 5.18

7,494.579 9.60 142,975,235 8.82 194,687,188 6.45 4,124,681 6.71 170,098,754 5.32 157,740,961 3.86 769.710 4.94 18,289,071 4.76 20,539,756 3.31

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CHICAGO RECEIPTS OF FISH AND SHELLFISH DECLINE DURING DECEMBER

Receipts of fresh and frozen fish and shellfish during December showed a substantial decline from November for most varieties, the Service's Chicago Market News office reported. The month marked â transition period in some producing areas from fall to winter fishing with an attendant change of gear, accounting in considerable measure for the reductions. An upward trend in receipts of frozen halibut and salmon offset to some extent the shortage of other items. Lack of fresh, frozen and filleted salt-water fish from the Eastern seaboard was an effect of the tie-up of North Atlantic fishing vessels. December receipts compared to December 1942 represented a materially increased production of most species. The 12-month total of 84,000,000 pounds received during 1943 was 23 percent greater than the 1942 total, a further indication of the rapidly growing importance of Chicago as a principal marketing and distribution center.

Although imports from Canada during December 1943 were generally heavier than for November, arrivals from the six largest producing States, with the exception of Washington, showed substantial declines. Reduction in supplies from the following States contributed the major portion of the month's decline: shrimp from Louisiana; fresh, frozen, and filleted fish from Massachusetts; and lake herring, lake trout, and whitefish from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wis

consin. Frozen halibut and salmon from Washington and British Columbia, and fresh and wintercaught fresh-water fish from the Canadian Prairie Provinces contributed in large part to December's increase for these particular producing areas.

While there was a general reduction in December from November totals in the receipts via all classes of carriers, a comparison of the 12-month receipts for 1943 with 1942 shows a 24 percent decline in truck shipments and an increase in express and freight usage of 82 and 25 percent, respectively.

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Receipts in the New York salt-water market for December showed a decrease of 35 percent as compared with November, and a decrease of 9 percent from December 1942 figures, according to the Service's Market News office in New York. The decrease was due to the protest tie-up of fishing vessels during the entire month. Had this market not received greatly increased quantities of several varieties from southern points, the percentage of decrease would have been much higher.

Spanish mackerel receipts increased 180 percent over November 1943 and 340 percent over December 1942. Bluefish and croakers, less important items, increased markedly, but mullet, which had been received in liberal quantity from Florida during November, fell off during December, due to the closed season from December 1 to January 20 on this variety. Shellfish fell off 17 percent from November receipts, but increased 7 percent over December 1942. Due mainly to very cold weather during the week of December 13 to 18, the month's receipts of clams were considerably below normal for December.

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Receipts of Fresh and Frozen Fishery Products--Salt-water Market, New York City

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GULF FISHERY PRODUCTION IN 1943 SHOWS LITTLE CHANGE FROM 1942

With the exception of hard crabs, the most important fishery products on the Gulf area were produced at about the same rate in 1943 as in 1942, according to the Service's Market News office at New Orleans. Production in December was considerably below November for all items except oysters. Oysters showed a seasonal increase, due to the opening of the canning

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Total receipts of fresh and frozen fishery products at Seattle during 1943 amounted to 83,896,000 pounds, according to the Service's local Fishery Market News office. This represents an increase of 19 percent over 1942. Halibut receipts of over 24 million pounds were more than 5 million pounds above the 1942 total, representing the greatest single increase. Although vessel landings of halibut at Seattle declined nearly 2 million pounds, shipments of fresh and frozen halibut from Alaska and British Columbia increased almost 7 million pounds. Other items which increased during the year were flounders and sole, which gained over 2 million pounds; lingcod, which was up nearly 3 million pounds; and rockfish, which increased over 2 million pounds. Salmon receipts at Seattle showed an alarming decline. Total receipts of all species of fresh and frozen salmon amounted to 17,230,000 pounds, a

decline of 28 percent, or more than 6 million pounds less than the 1942 total. Failures of the fall salmon runs in Puget Sound and the Columbia River were responsible for most of this drop. Shipments of frozen salmon from Alaska were reduced nearly million pounds.

Seattle receipts of fresh and frozen fish during December totaled nearly 5 million pounds. This represents a decline of 26 percent compared with the previous month, but is an increase of more than 1 million pounds, or 30 percent over December 1942. Items received in larger quantities than in December 1942 were fresh-shucked Pacific oysters, chum salmon, flounders, crabs, and dogfish livers. Shipments of frozen fish from Alaska also increased.

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Halibut and shark fleets and receipts from local and all other sources.

OPA SETS RETAIL PRICE MARK-UPS FOR FRESH FISH SALES

To pass on to the consuming public the reductions in fish and seafood prices which already have been achieved at the fishermen's level and in wholesale stages prior to retail, the Office of Price Administration on January 14 announced a schedule of flat, nation-wide, cents-per-pound mark-ups over net cost by which retailers now must determine their maximum prices for fish. This move should bring about a return to approximately the 1942 retail average. It is expected that the new schedule will not mean an increase in any individual Up until now, OPA had required that retail maximum prices were to be determined by application of the individual retailer's customary mark-up. OPA has previously admitted, however, that this system has not been satisfactory. Surveys have shown retail prices advancing in an inflationary manner even after imposition of fisherman and wholesale controls. Exact savings in any city or store cannot be stated, since fish prices have varied exceedingly from store to store under the previous form of control.

Under the regulation (Maximum Price Regulation 507--Ceiling Prices of Certain Fresh Fish and Seafood Sold at Retail--effective January 27), the flat, cents-per-pound mark-ups will be applied much as the percentage mark-ups are applied to groceries and vegetables under OPA's now familiar over-all mark-up regulations for wholesale and retail grocers. The centsper-pound mark-up will vary according to the kind of fish, the dressing of that fish and the group of retail stores in which it is sold. (For the purposes of this regulation, OPA's regular four groupings of retail stores have been lumped into Group 1 and Group 2, with one set of mark-ups, and Group 3 and Group 4 with another. Groups 1 and 2 combine all independent stores having a gross annual volume of less than $250,000; Groups 3 and 4, all chain stores and independents having a volume of more than $250,000.)

The mark-ups are provided for those 45 species of fish and for shrimp and scallop previously brought under control at other levels. Besides applying to retail stores, the regulation also covers sales by retail route sellers and wagon retailers.

The data upon which the mark-ups were established was gathered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and, further, was obtained by OPA in industry conferences, of which many were held prior to the action. The BLS statistics, for instance, were compiled from 735 schedules submitted by 718 reporters retailing fish in 17 cities. The reporters included combination stores, fish markets, chain organizations, and super-markets, representing 4,100 stores.

The actual prices will vary from city to city depending upon the actual costs of transporting the fish to each point. It is to these costs that the retailer adds the mark-ups.

Incorporating many now familiar features of OPA's retail grocery regulations, with slight variations, such as those on recalculation of perishables, on transportation allowances, on posting of prices, etc., the regulation also has provisions peculiar to the fish trade. For instance, while cents-per-pound mark-ups are provided both for whole fish sold as purchased and for fillets and steaks sold as purchased, it is true that many retailers purchase their fish whole and then fillet it or cut their own steaks prior to offering for sale. In such an instance, the retailer determines his maximum price by adding to the wholesale price for fillets or steaks of the variety involved, the mark-up allowed for fillets sold as purchased. The same thing holds true where the retailer, for instance, processes some seafood by changing its form to headless, headless and veined, peeled, or peeled and veined. MPR 507 follows:

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Such specifications and standards as are used in this regulation were, prior to such use, in general use in the trade or industry affected, or insofar as they were not in general use, their use is essential to effectuate price control, and there is no effective alternative.

A statement of the considerations involved in the issuance of the regulation has been issued herewith and filed with the Division of the Federal Register.*

ARTICLE III-ADJUSTMENT PROVISIONS

certain conditions, use the Group 1 and
2 mark-ups.

18. Applications for adjustment.

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regulation if you are a retailer who buys and resells food products, for the most part to ultimate consumers who are not commercial, industrial or institutional users. Ceiling prices for sales to hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, institutions and other eating places selling or furnishing meals are the ceiling prices fixed by Maximum Price Regulation No. 418. Nevertheless, any person may, during any month, use the ceiling prices fixed by this regulation in selling to eating places, if 80% or more of his total sales of fresh fish and seafood during the previous calendar month were sales at retail to ultimate consumers. Retail route sellers and wagon retailers shall, for the purposes of this regulation, regard themselves as stores, and figure their ceiling prices as such.

(b) What are Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 stores. For the purposes of this regulation, Groups 1, 2, 3 and 4 stores are defined as follows:

(1) Group 1. Your store is in Group 1 if it is an "independent" store with "annual gross sales" of less than $50,000.

(2) Group 2. Your store is in Group 2 if it is an "independent" store with "annual gross sales" of $50,000 or more, but less than $250,000.

(3) Group 3. Your store is in Group 3 if its "annual gross sales" are less than 22. Transfer of business and stock in trade. $250,000, and if it is not an "independent" 23. Relation to other regulations. 24. Geographical applicability. 25. Definitions.

ARTICLE V-TABLES

food (Table A).

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE
REGULATION

§ 1364.352 Ceiling prices of certain 26. Table of mark-ups for fresh fish and seafresh fish and seafood sold at retail. Under the authority vested in the Price Administrator by the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, and Executive Orders Nos. 9250 and 9328, Maximum Price Regulation No. 507 (Ceiling Prices of Certain Fresh Fish and Seafood Sold at Retail), which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof, is hereby issued. AUTHORITY:: 1364.352 issued under 56 Stat. 23, 765; Pub. Law 151, 78th Cong.; E.O. 9250, 7 FR. 7871; E.O. 9328, 8 F.R. 4681. MAXIMUM PRICE REGULATION 507--CEILING PRICES OF CERTAIN FRESH FISH AND SEAFOOD SOLD AT RETAIL

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ARTICLE I-PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE
REGULATION

1. What this regulation does.

2. What stores are covered by this regulation and how you find out what group you are in.

*Copies may be obtained from the Office of Price Administration.

SECTION 1. What this regulation does. This regulation fixes new ceiling prices for domestic and imported fresh fish and seafood items listed in Table A, for all retail stores, retail route sellers and wagon retailers. These new ceiling prices are to be used instead of the ceiling prices figured under any other price regulation or order issued by the Office of Price Administration (hereinafter called OPA), except as otherwise provided in any order fixing dollars-and-cents ceiling prices which has been or which may be issued by the OPA pursuant to Revised General Order No. 51.'

SEC. 2. What stores are covered by this regulation and how you find out what group you are in-(a) What stores are covered. Your store is covered by this

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(4) Group 4. Your store is in Group 4 if its "annual gross sales" are $250,000 or more.

(5) Independent store. Your store is an "independent" store if it is not one of four or more stores under one ownership whose combined "annual gross sales" are $500,000 or more.

(c) How to post a sign of the group your store is in. At all times, you must have posted a sign showing the group your store is in under this regulation (reading "OPA-1", "OPA-2", "OPA-3" or "OPA-4", whichever applies to you), or you must have posted a sign which the OPA may furnish you. However, you may post the sign of another group, if you are permitted to do so under any order issued under Revised General Order No. 51. The sign must be posted so that it can be clearly seen by your customers.

SEC. 3. How and when you figure your ceiling prices for fresh fish and seajood

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