Marking: Each case shall be marked to show the name of the seller, commodity, contract number, net weight of cans and number of cans per case, and a legend which may be prescribed by CCC. 6. RELATION TO PREVIOUS CONTRACTS: It is understood and agreed that this offer covers the sale of all fish to CCC which are packed during the period beginning March 1, 1944, and ending February 28, 1945. Seller further agrees that deliveries under contract(s) No. FSC ) shall terminate with the last delivery to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation of fish packed prior to March 1, 1944, and that said contract(s) shall not apply to any fish packed on or after March 1, 1944. CANNED RIVER HERRING OFFERS REQUESTED The War Food Administration on April 14 issued Supplement 2 to Offer of Sale Form PB33, Miscellaneous Canned Fish, amending the form to provide specifications to apply to canned river herring. Excerpts follow: Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4 is inapplicable and the following is substituted in lieu there of: (a) (1) Fish shall be firm, of good appearance and well cleaned. Cans shall be packed as (2) A lot may be considered as meeting specifications if not more than one-sixth of the (3) All fish delivered hereunder shall conform in every applicable respect to the re- (4) For the purpose of these specifications, the following definitions shall apply: The term "natural" means without the addition of any condiment except salt The term "net content" means the total weight of the fish and liquid in the can. The term "well cleaned" means that the heads and tails shall be removed; the The term "drained weight" means the weight of the fish after, they have been The term "materially" means failing to meet requirements of the Federal Food, The price to be paid by CCC for canned River Herring shall not exceed the ceiling prices set for th in MPR-396 dated May 24, 1943, and amendments thereto. Additional charges for export cases and special can treatment as directed by CCC snall be shown as separate items. Offers of canned River Herring submitted on Offer of Sale Form PB-33 may be submitted at any time prior to August 31, 1944, for acceptance within fifteen (15) days after the date of the offer. Samples of canned River Herring need not be submitted with the offer of sale. It is suggested that the above referred to subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4 be deleted by reference in the margin of the offer of sale form in the following manner: "Supplement No. 2 to apply," and initialed by the person who signs the offer for the seller. CANNED GROUND FISH OFFERS REQUESTED The War Food Administration on April 28 issued Supplement 3 to Offer of Sale Form PB-33, Miscellaneous Canned Fish, amending that form to provide specifications to apply to canned ground fish. Excerpts follow: Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4, Specifications, is inapplicable and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: (a) (1) Fish used in the manufacture of this produce shall only be edible species in good The phrase "practically free from scales" shall be interpreted to mean that scales shall (2) Representative samples of the product offered shall be submitted with the offer as Offers of Canned, Ground Fish submitted on Offer of Sale Form PB-33 may be submitted at any time prior to August 31, 1944, for acceptance within fifteen (15) days after the date of the offer. It is suggested that the above referred to paragraphs be deleted by reference on the margin of the Offer of Sale (Form PB-33) in the following manner: "Supplement No. 3 to apply" and initialed by the person who signs the offer for the seller. CANNED SQUID WANTED BY WFA Offer of Sale Form PB-33, Miscellaneous Canned Fish, was amended by the WFA on April 14 to provide specifitations which shall apply to all canned squid offered thereunder. Excerpts from Supplement 1 follow: Subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4 is inapplicable and the following is substituted in lieu thereof: Squid shall be packed from whole fresh squid in accordance with the best commercial practice and shall be packed natural with water and salt added or in brine. All squid shall be in 300x407 cans, 24 or 48 to the case. The average net contents of each can shall be not less than 15 ounces. For the purpose of these specifications the term "natural" means in squid ink; the term "net contents" means the weight of the fish and liquid in the can. Offers of canned squid submitted on, Offer of Sale Form PB-33, may be submitted at any time prior to May 31, 1944, for acceptance within fifteen (15) days after the date of the offer. Samples of canned squid need not be submitted with the offer of sale. WFA REQUESTS OFFERS OF MISCELLANEOUS CANNED FISH In Announcement Awd-33 the Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, announced April 14 that it will receive offers for the sale of canned fish not covered by Food Distribution Order No. 44, Amendment 2. Offers should be submitted in accordance with arrangements made with the Fish Products Division of the Office of Distribution. An original and four (4) completely executed and signed copies of Offer of Sale Form PB-33, Miscellaneous Canned Fish, should be mailed to the Fish Products Division, Special Commodities Branch, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, Washington 25, D. C. Offerers are requested to submit a separate offer for each species and for each f.o.b. point or shipping point. In preparing the offer, it is requested that a monthly rate of delivery be shown under the heading "Delivery Period" in the table in Paragraph 1. Also offerer should insert the acceptance date in the appropriate space in Paragraph 9. Notice of acceptance will be made by telegram filed at Washington, D. C., not later than midnight E.W.T. of the date specified in the offer. Copies of the offer of sale form will be forwarded on request. Excerpts from Offer of Sale Form PB-33 follow: 1. QUANTITY, DESCRIPTION, AND PRICE: The seller offers all or any part of each of the following quantities of Canned Fish at the prices scheduled below: Species and type pack 3. FAILURE TO DELIVER: If seller fails to can a sufficient quantity of fish to complete this contract but has delivered to CCC, except for normal throwouts of defective cans, and samples, the entire quantity of fish canned by seller during the delivery period provided herein, CCC will terminate the contract resulting from the acceptance of this offer as to such portion remaining undelivered. 4. SPECIFICATIONS: (a) The canned fish shall be equal to or better than the samples submitted with this offer, and shall be prepared and canned under strictly sanitary conditions in accordance with the best commercial practice. Seller shall attach a brief description of the product. (b) All canned fish delivered hereunder shall conform in every applicable respect to the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act as amended and of regulations pursuant there to. 5. INSPECTION: Inspection of the canned fish will be made, tribution or its designee. The cost of such inspection, certificates of inspection, will be borne by the seller. prior to delivery, by the Office of Disincluding furnishing samples and issuing (Refer Paragraph 3, Form FDA-474.) 6. LABELING, PACKAGING, AND MARKING: Cans: Cans shall be inside enameled unless otherwise directed by CCC. If all or any component part of the cans are manufactured from tinplate lighter than 1.25 hot dipped plate, the inside and outside of such cans or component part shall be enameled. Cans shall be sound and clean, free from rust and serious dents at time of delivery. Labels: Cans shall be labeled with seller's regular commercial label unless otherwise directed by CCC. Cases: Cases shall be Type V3c or V3s, as described in Form FSC-1742-D, "Export Packaging Specifications," unless otherwise directed by CCC. Cases shall be strapped with 2 girthwise and 2 lengthwise metal straps. Marking: Each case shall be marked to show the name of the seller, commodity, species, contract number, net weight of cans, and number of cans per case, and a legend which may be prescribed by CCC. 7. STANDARD CONTRACT CONDITIONS: Seller agrees to comply with Standard Contract Conditions, Form FDA-474, except that conditions 6, 7, and 8 shall not apply. WFA PURCHASE FORMS ARE AMENDED Supplement 2 to Offer of Sale Form SCP-1861 dated April 5 substitutes the name Commodity Credit Corporation for the name Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, wherever the latter name or the initials "FSCC" appear in forms: SCP-1861, Canned Sea Herring and Canned Maine Sardines - Offer of sale SCP-1861A, Notice of Tender of Delivery, and SCB-64, Canned Fish - General Contract Conditions. FDO-23 REVOKED BY WFA Food Distribution Order 23, which extended restrictive measures on canned fish previously affected by War Production Board Order M-86-B until March 31, 1943, has been revoked as of April 10, 1944 by the War Food Administration. The pack of canned fish has been restricted since April 1, 1943 by FDO-44 and amend ments. FDO-23 as amended required each canner to set aside for Government agencies 80 percent of his pack of pilchard, herring, mackerel, and sardines and 60 percent of his pack of each species of salmon including chum and steelhead. FDO-44, Amendment 2, requires each packer to set aside 60 percent of his pack of each species of salmon, as defined therein, and 45 percent of his pack of pilchards, herring, and mackerel. Although FDO-23 has been revoked, violations, rights accrued, liabilities incurred or appeals prior to revocation are still subject to provisions in the order. METAL CONTAINER SITUATION REMAINS CRITICAL Packers and shippers who use tin cans, steel drums, pails, and metal closures cannot expect improvement in the availability of those supplies during the next six months, Edward J. Detgen, Director of the Containers Division of the War Production Board, said April 7. "There is no thought, in the Containers Division, of relaxing in the near future any of the metal containers limitation orders affecting tin cans, steel drums, pails, and metal closures," Mr. Detgen emphasized. In general, the type of steel used for these containers is the same as that required by several of the most urgent military programs. As rolling mills are now working at capacity, and no drop in military sheet steel requirements is in sight, no steel for additional containers can be anticipated in the near future, Mr. Detgen said. Byproducts Trade. NATION FACES DEFICIT IN VITAMIN A PRODUCTION Warnings that the nation faces a Vitamin A deficit and that the soupfin shark fishery, chief United States source of Vitamin A, apparently is being rapidly depleted were issued April 10 by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. Receipts in February were 70 percent below those of February 1943, although apparently fishermen had intensified their efforts and were using more gear. February receipts of domestic soupfin shark livers were 83,960 pounds, as compared with 280,781 pounds in the same month of 1943. Receipts of soupfin shark livers during January and December also showed marked declines from totals of the same months in the previous years. January 1944 showed 148,460 pounds as against 185,239 pounds, and December showed 116,681 pounds, as compared with 317,444. Vitamin A stocks held by producers and pharmaceutical houses as of February 29 in the form of livers, liver oils, and concentrates totaled approximately 51 trillion units. As of the end of February 1943, holdings amounted to 88 trillion units. Indications are that the consumption of Vitamin A in this country now exceeds production. Two years ago the Fish and Wildlife Service warned the State of Oregon, Washington, and California that intensification of the soupfin shark fishery would probably result in · early depletion of the shark population of the West Coast waters. The soupfin shark, like most other sharks, produces living young and the optimum rate of increase is much lower than in the case of true fishes. In addition, the shark lives over the continental shelf, which on the West Coast is much narrower than the shelf on the other side of the continent. There is a definite limit, therefore, to the area in which the soupfin shark can live. Only a few years ago the value to fishermen of all sharks taken was about $500,000 a year. It is estimated that sharks were worth more than $8,500,000 to fishermen in 1943. Most of this sum went for livers, although several hundred thousand dollars was paid for the carcasses, which are now widely used for food. By far the largest portion of the shark industry channels through Seattle, although California, Florida, and a few other States also share in it. The soupfin shark fishery was increasing before the war as a result of the generally rising use of vitamin products. With the advent of war, which cut off foreign sources of supply, the price of soupfin shark livers rose to a high point of $9.25 a pound at one time. The price was 18.6 cents a pound in 1937. The current price runs from $6 to $7 a pound. REMAINDER OF 1943 FISH OIL STOCKS TO BE RELEASED FROM GOVERNMENT RESERVES Approximately 20 million pounds of 1943 fish oil production, all that remains in Government reserves, will be released by the War Food Administration on April 24 for essential war uses, the WFA announced April 4. A portion of the stocks, consisting of Alaska herring, menhaden, pilchard and sardine oils, was released on March 10 for use in alkyd resins, rubber compounding, water insoluble metallic soaps, lubricants, metal working compounds (other than core oils) and for military use where fish oil is mandatory by specification or by physical requirements of specification. The 20 million pounds remaining also will be confined to these uses, and will be subject to use limitations of Food Distribution Order No. 60, the fish oil order. WFA previously had planned to sell the reserve stocks in small portions--5 million pounds each month until June, when the 1944 producing season begins. Immediate sale of the balance, however, will free tank storage space for other essential raw materials. WFA issued a set aside order last July 1, at the beginning of the 1943 producing season, to assure a sufficient supply throughout the year. The order, FDO No. 59, was terminated March 1, 1944, when it became evident that the quantity on hand would be sufficient to supply the needs until the new season begins. WFA CLARIFIES OPERATION OF FISH OIL ORDER Food Distribution Order No. 60 was issued on June 30, 1943, to conserve and distribute among manufacturers of essential products the supply of fish oils pressed from California sardine, Oregon and Washington pilchard, menhaden, Alaska herring, West Coast mackerel, tuna, and salmon. Amendment No. 1, issued November 1, 1943, included rosefish and Alaska seal oils, as well as oil from tuna-like fish; and permitted the unlimited use of Alaska herring and Alaska seal oils in the manufacture of natural leather. It also permitted the unlimited use of fish oils or their derivatives (except Alaska herring or Alaska seal oil) in alkyd resins, metallic soaps, and rubber compounding, but limited their use in the manufacture of some other products. Amendment No. 2, issued March 2, 1944, included all Pacific Coast herring oil, as well as' all seal oil, in the definition of fish oil. It permitted the unlimited use of salmon oil in the canning of salmon, and the unlimited use of fish oil, other than seal oil and Pacific Coast herring oil, in the manufacture of vitamin feeding oil for poultry, provided such vitamin feeding oil is fortified to contain not less than 400 A.0.A.C. units of vitamin D per gram of oil without regard to the fish oil content of such oil. Food Distribution Order No. 60, as amended, was redesignated War Food Order No. 60 on April 20, 1944. War Food Order 60, Amendment No. 1, effective May 1, 1944, requires producers of crude sardine and menhaden oils to set aside approximately one-third of their production for uses classified as essential. The following questions and answers are intended to supply the answers to many of the questions raised by the industry and by the public generally: |