Report Of The United States Commissioner Of Fisheries For The Fiscal Year 1933 PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1933: With Appendixes Commercial fishing by United States craft is far-reaching in its scope, being prosecuted on the high seas and in the territorial waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean. And the Gulf of Mexico. As well as in the Great Lakes and in interior waters. These fisheries during the calendar year 1931 furnished employment to about persons as fishermen; and there were persons engaged in trans porting, manufacturing, and the wholesale trade - making a total of about. Persons, who depended directly upon the fisheries for a livelihood. This was about less than were employed dur ing the previous year. The catch in 1931 amounted to pounds, valued at a decrease of 19 percent in quantity and 29 percent in value as compared with the previous year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.