Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-02
AMERICA LEADS IN FISH.
United States Exceeds All Othe,
Countries in Production Of Sardines.

SountrieS IN PRODUCTION or SardIneS.
Washington, April 1.-The announce
ment of the settlement CT the long
standing fisheries, dispute between
Canada and the United States calls
attention to the fact that these two
countries produce about one fourth of
the recorded fish crop of the world.
Statistics made public by the National
City Bank show that the United
States now leads the world in its
fish output and that the waters of
Canada and the United States in COM
bination supply over $3.50. 900, 900 worth
Of fish per annum out of world
recorded total of slightly less than
$500. 100000 The recorded total" the
bank points out, includes compare
lively small proportion OF the globe or
It's population.
The total value OF the American fish
crop, including Alaska and the insular
possessions, is probably $50, 900 900 at
the present time, tho the latest Off
cial figures put the total at s125,000,
900. The fact, however, that a por-
tion of these figures represents the
output prior to the advance in prices
resulting from the war seems to just
ify an estimate Of approximately $780,
900, 900 as the value of our own output
at the present time. This total Of
$3.50. 100000 compares with $40, 900 900
as the value of the fish crop of Can
ada, Great Britain. s52,000000; France,
$4,000, 900; Russia, lin 1910 $4,000
900; Germany, $4,000, 900: tScandinav-
ian states, $4,000, 900, and Japan, s50,-
100000.
In Europe. as a whole, the recorded
fish crop in the latest available year is
1925, 100000. for North America
UNITED States. Canada, and New
sI75, 100000. and Japan
$50, 900. 900, making the total for the
countries supplying official figures
$3.50, 100000. For the remainder Of the
world. Asia, Africa, South and Central
America, Australia. and the islands of
the Pacific, there are only estimates,
but these estimates bring the total of
the worlds fish crop at the place
where taken from the seas at above
$500, 100000. suggesting that the sums
paid by consumers probably exceed a
billion dollars per annum.
The worlds oyster crop it was esti-
mated, amounts to approximately s25,-
000000 a year in value, of which four
fifth are grown in the waters of the
United States, most of them along the
Atlantic frontage. the remainder chief
ly in the waters Of France, Belgium,
the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
Fish forms factor Of considerable
Importance in the foreign trade Of the
United States. the total exported in
1911 amounting to $4,000, COO. and the
imports about s23,OO0,000. If we in
clude the amount sent from continent
al United States to its non contiguous
territories, fish and fish products pass
ing thru the ports Of the United
States in the calendar year 1917 would
amount to approximately $50, 900, 900.
This trade in fish and fish products is
steadily increasing, the imports having
grown from $4,000 900 in 1907 to s23,-
900, 900 in 1917, and the exports from
s6,OOO,OO in 1907 to approximately
s25, 900, 600 for the calendar year 1917.
The value of the fish imported into
and exported from the United States
since 1900 exceeds $400,O0O,0oo.
The capital invested in the fisheries