Excerpt from Fish Meal Supply and Price TrendsLike most products of agricultural or marine origin, production of fish meal has a pronounced seasonal pattern. Catches of fish for processing are heaviest during the summer and early fall when weather and the biological as peets of fishing are favorable.Combining domestic production and imports, supplies of fish meal are seasonally large during June, July and August. The low seasonal level occurs during January, February and March.Seasonal variation in fish meal consumption during the year probably is somewhat less than the variation in production and imports shown in the chart below. Processors and buyers of fish meal probably accumulate stocks during the peak production months. This would insure adequate reserves throughout the period of low production and reduce considerably the seasonal variation in dis appearance. The less pronounced seasonal price swing, relative to the rather sharp seasonal production and import curves, lends support to this conclusion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.