1950 - Marine Resources

Marine Resources

World fisheries' production regains its prewar level of 20 million tons per year (see 1960).

Oyster production from the Connecticut coast south to New Jersey reaches 3.3 million bushels (see 1966).

Only 82 Atlantic salmon are landed on the Maine coast, less than a thousand pounds as compared with 150,000 in 1889. Dams and pollution have reduced spawning (see Danish fishermen, 1964).