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Present Status of Commercial Fisheries in the United States
Author(s) -
McKernan Donald L.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1959)88[169:psocfi]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - fishery , per capita , business , consumption (sociology) , agricultural economics , value (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , economics , biology , mathematics , social science , population , statistics , demography , sociology , philosophy , epistemology
Fishery products continue to improve in quality and variety, but the commercial fisheries face serious economic difficulties. The catch in 1957 declined 10 percent in volume and 5 percent in value from the preceding year, but U. S. per capita consumption remained at about 10 pounds, the demand being supplied by increasing imports. Varying conditions in the several sections of the wide‐spread fisheries are discussed and governmental programs of aid in technical and economic fields are mentioned.