1940 - Marine Resources

Marine Resources

The New York-New Jersey shad catch is 3,25 million pounds, down from 13.5 million in 1890.

A shrimp trawler fishing in deep water off the Texas Gulf coast returns to Port Isabel with a brown shrimp having a purple-tinged tail. Unlike the common white shrimp that is taken close to shore in shallow water, it is a nocturnal creature that has thus far escaped notice, but by the late 1950s it will have become the leading variety used in the shrimp industry.