( their findings to create a comprehensiv...)Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

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Appendix:

Restaurant menu prices of various species (inflation-adjusted)

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1) The price of abalone in San Francisco restaurants. Abalone does not appear on menus examined to date from the 1870's to the early 1920's. From the early 1920's to the late 1930's the price closely tracked the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This inflation-adjusted chart shows prices flat at a 2004 equivalent of about $7.00 until the late 1930's and a second jump in inflation-adjusted prices in the late 1950's. Since the late 1950's the price of abalone has risen 7 to 10 times faster than inflation.

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Source:Census of Marine Life