Marketing Bill and Its Cost Components of U.S. Food Fish Products

摘要

Based on the cost analyses of price margins of 18 fishery products at four functional levels (harvesting, processing, wholesale, and retail), cost bills are estimated and expanded to include all edible fishery products harvested, imported, distributed, and consumed in the United States during 1972-77. Fishery products reach consumers not only through retail stores but in greater quantities through eating places and other food service institutions. Detailed estimates for 1972-77 are made for the following: a marketing bill at each functional level of every fishery, an outlay for each cost item at six functional levels of each fishery, annual consumer expenditure on each fish product, and per capita consumption of all edible fishery products in dollar value.