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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES
DONALD L. MCKERNAN, DIRECTOR STEWART L. UDALL, SECRETARY
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE CLARENCE F . PAUT ZKE, COMMI SSIONER
DIVISION OF RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
RALPH C. BAKER, ASST. 01 RECTOR
COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW e A r e view of developments and news of the fishery industries
prepared in the BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES.
Joseph Pileggi, Editor G. A. Albano and H. Beasley, Assistant Editors
Address c orre spondence and requests to the: Chief, Fishery Market News Service, U. S. Bureau of Commercial F i she r ies , 1815 North Fort Myer Drive, Room 510, Arlington, Va. 22209 .
Publication of material from sources outside the Bureau is not an endorsement. The Bureau is not responsible for the accuracy of fa~ts, views, or opmions con t a i ned in material from outside sources.
Although the contents of the pub 1 i cat ion have not bee n copyrighted and may be reprinted freely, reference to the source i s appreciated.
Use of funds for p rinting this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, May 1 , 19 63 .
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CONTENTS COVER' The research vessel Hernan Cortez (built in 1964) of the Flor
ida Bo'ard of Conservation is a conventional, double -rigged shrimp trawler. The double-rig deck arrangement permits dragging a single net from either side or two nets simultaneously . She participated (with the U. S. Bureau of Commercial F i sheries) in a s~rvey of the .trawlfi sh potential off the Florida west coast to determ~ne ~he speCies co~position, distribution, relative abundance, and avallabillty of bottomflsh to trawling gear. (See p. 1 of this issue.)
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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS: Alaska :
USDI Inspection of Herring-Eggs-on-Kelp Peelability of F resh Pink Shrimp Discussed
Alaska F i shery Investigations: Earlier Red Salmon Eggs Require the Most
Thermal Units Spawning Channel Pink Fry Survival En
couraging Shrimp Behavior Studies Continued
American Samoa: Tuna Fleet Status, J anuary 1966
California: Experimental Anchovy Fishery as of April
20, 1966 Anchovy Tagging Program Conducted
Cans--Shipments for Fishery Products, January 1966
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TRENDS AND DEVELoPMENTS (Contd .): Central Pacific Fisheries Investigations :
Huge Skipjack Tuna Potential Seen Oceanographic Research Project Conducted
South of the Hawaiian Islands Trade Wind Zone Oceanographic Studies Con
tinued Tuna Biological Studies Continued
Chesapeake Bay: Radioactive Wastes in Bottom Deposits Studied
Columbia River: "Operation Coho" Launched as Part of Hatch-
ery Evaluation Study . . Clarification Sought on Indian CommerCial
Fishery Federal Purchases of Fishery Products:
Department of Defense Purchases, February 1966
Contents continued page II.
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CONTENTS (CONTINUED)
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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENT (Contd.): Federal Purchases of Fishery Products (Contd.):
Veterans Administration Requirements for 1966
Fish Farming: Pond-Reared Catfish Has Food 'VIarket Po
tential Fish Protein Concentrate:
Legislative Authority to Build Largp.-Scale Plant Recommended by Interior Department
Fur Seals: Prices for Alaska Skins at Spnng 1 'l6b A.uc
tion Great Lakes:
Michigan's First Plantings of Silver Salmon Great Lakes Fisheries Explorations and Gear
Development: Alewife Spawning Migra+lOJ':'s Studipt:!
Gulf Fishery Investigations: Shrimp Biolog} Program Estuarine Program Experimental Biology Progra.n
Industrial Fishery Prodt:cts: U. S. Fish Meal Supplies III ~ 6 ~ anl Ear y
1966 U. S. Fish Meal, Oil, and Solubles.
Production by Areas, March : ~ 'l6 Production, February 1966
U. S. Fish Meal and Solublos Production and Imports, January- Febru uy
1966 ScIentists Study Why Fish Oils BF come Rar -
cid Maine Sardines:
23 .. Progress in Long Range PredlctlOl1S of Her-ring Supply
NatlOnal Fishenes ;:ns· ute. 23 .. Expanded Promo, lonal Pro~ram Planned "')r
1966 'Fish 'n Seafor)(. Parade" Nautical Charts:
24 List for Pacific Coastal Waters North Atlantic Fisheries Investigations:
25 Distribution of Larval Herring in Gulf of Maine Studied
North Pacific Fisheries Expl< r'ltbns and Gear Development:
25 Hake Population Survey Continued ·Oceanography·
26 New Research Vessel Oceanographer De-livered to Goverrment
27 New Hydrographic Vessel Launched for U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Oregon: 27 Steelhead Stocking Program 28 Willamette Falls Steelhead Count High 29 Indian Fishery in ColumbIa River Surveyed 29 Salmon Hatchery Construction Contract
Awarded Rhode Island:
29 Fishery Landings, 1965 30 Marine Experiment Station to be Established
by University of Rhode Island Salmon:
30 .. U. S. Pacific Coast Canned Stocks, March 1, 1966
Shellfish Farming: 31 .. Potential Along U. S. East Coast
Page TRENDS AND DEVE LOPMENTS (Cont d.) :
Shrimp: 31 U. S. Consumption tn 1965
South Caroltna 32 Fishenea Biological Research P rogress ,
January -l\Iarch 1966 Tuna:
34 .• EconomIC Study of Tuna FIShtng by U. S. Bu-reau of CommercIal Fisheries
United States Fisheries: 34 Fish ConsumptlOn in 1965 Highest III Ten
Years 15 1963 Census of Commercial FIsheries 35 Landmgs and Value of Commercial Fisheries
HIgher ir. 1865 U. S. FishinR Vessels:
36 Fisheries Loan Fund and Other Financial Aid for Vessels, January I-March 11, 1966
17 DocumentatIOns Is lIed and C'lncelied Year 1965
1.'. S. Foreign Trade: '38 Imports of Canned Tuna m Brllle Under Quota
Washmgton: % Salmon F Ishlllg Re:gulahons for 1966 III Grays
and Will&.pa Harbors Prop'::lsed '38 Salmon FIshing Regulations for Puget Sound
in 1966 Adopte'l Wholesale Prices
19. Edib e F!<;h and Sl-ellllsh April 1966 I'OREIGN:
International: Fish Meal:
41 World ProductIon, 1965 and January - Feb -ruary 1966 with CO"1pansons
41 ProductlOn and Exports for Selected Coun-tries 191) 5 :md January 1966
Food and Agriculture- OrganizatlOn' 41 •. 'hor.d TradE' III FIshery Products
191)4 Fresh-Water Fish:
45 " IBP Technical I\Ieetmg on the Biologica: BaSIS of Fresh-Water Fish Production
Herring: 45 Herring Research in Norwegian Sea
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: 45 Twenty-Third SesslOn Held in Geneva
Inter - American Tropical Tuna CommisSlOn. 46 Annual Meeting Held in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Law of the Sea: 47 Convention on Fishing and Conservation of
.he Living Resources of the High Seas Enters into Force
47 .. Conference Held at University of Rhode Is-land
North Sea Continental Shelf: 48 Agreement Between Britain and De nmark
Northwest Pacific Fisheries Commission: 48 Report on Tenth Meeting Between Japan and
U.S.S.R. Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development: 50 Fisheries Committee Meeting
Salmon: 50 United States-Canadian Pacific Salmon Con-
ference Fishing Vessels:
52 .. World Construction Data
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FOREIGN (Contd.): Aden:
Fishery Trends in 1965 and Outlook for 1966 Angola:
Goverrunent Regulations Discourage SouthAfrican Fishing Firms in Angola
Australia: Tuna Season Short in New South Wales
Brazil: Packing Firm Starts Fishing Fleet
Canada: Catch Expansion Forecast at Atlantic Off
shore Fishing Vessel Conference, by E. A. Schaefers
Processing C;omplex on Gaspe Peninsula Planned
Fishery Landings, 1965 Goverrunent to Help Fishing Industry Repair
Newfoundland Storm Damage Quebec's Maritime Fisheries, 1965 Program to Improve Fish Handling at Sea Pumps to Unload Salmon Developed in Brit-
ish Columbia Bulk Handling of Herring Meal Tested in
British Columbia Chile:
Reappearance of Anchovy Prevents Closure of Fish Meal Plant
Inauguration of Anchovy Conservation Colombia:
Japanese Tuna Enterprise Fails to Materialize
Cuba : Additions to Cuban Fishing Fleet Fishery Landings in 1965 Havana Fishing Port Imports of Moroccan Fish Meal Servicing of Soviet Fishing Vessels Shellfish Exports to France
Derunark : Fishery Landings, Pnces. Processing, and
Foreign Trade in 1965 and Outlook for 1966 Fish Meal, Oil, and Solubles Production and
Exports , February 1966 Small Fish Meal Plant for Research Use De
veloped Sealskins from Greenland Auctioned
Ecuador: Law on Foreign Fish Landings
East Germany: Fishing Vessels Sold to Danish and Swedish
Firms Greece:
Fishery Landings and Trends. 1965 Frozen Fish Imports Banned
Guinea: Fishery Aid b y Soviets
Iceland: Export Stocks of Principal Fishery Products.
February 28, 1966 Exports of Fishery Products 1964-65 Fishery Landings by Principal Species. Jan
uary -October 1965 Utilization of Fishery Landings , January
October 1965 Trade Agreements with East European Com
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FOREIGN (Contd.) : India:
Expansion of Shrimp Exports to th Unit d States
Fishing Chart of India's West Co at to b Published by Norway
Fresh-Water Fisheries Dev lopm nt Ireland :
Fishenes Expansion in 1965 Ivory Coast:
Deve!c.pments in Tuna FI herles Japan:
Tuna Prices Dechne Export Quotas for Frozen Tuna. 1966/67 Canned Tuna Export Plans of Tradln Firm Frozen Tuna Exports to U. S. and Puerto
Rico. January 1966 Export Price of Canned Tuna In Brine to
United States Frozen Swordfish Export ValidatIOns to U. S.
and Canada, Apnl 1965-January 1966 Exports of Frozen Rambow Trout, January
1966 Exports of Marine Products, November 1965 Japan-Communist Chma (Prlvate) Fish rles
Agreement South Georgia Island Whaling Operation to
Cease Mauritania:
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75 Shrimp Fishery of Ciudad del Carmen 76 Trend Is Toward Increased Natlonahz tlon
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Shrimp Shortage in Tangter Sardine Fleet Recovers from Storm D rna Tangier Sardme and Tuna CannlOg Sea on New Fish Complex Planned Agar-Agar Plant to Move from Tangler
Mozambique: Fisheries Productlon, 1961-1965
Netherlands: Fishery Landings, 1964-1965
Nigena' New Shrimp Fishing Enterprise Form d Frozen Fish io.1arketmg and Distribution
Norway Herring and Cod Fishery Trends, March 1 ,
1966 Ban on Foreign Fishery Landin s 1ay B
Relaxed \\h'lhng Factoryshlp 1a Be If ted to Her-
rlOg Fishery Pakistan:
12-\1I.e Flshmg Limit ht to Extended" Conserv
Panama: 81 Interest In Developing the FI h 1 1 Indu ry
Increases 82 Shrimp Catch and Exports 1 65
P ru: 82 F Ish Mea. and Oil tuatlon iarch
Poland: 82 Fishery Id to 'rla
Portugal: 82 Canned Fish Exports 5
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F ORE IGN (Contd.): Portu gal (Contd. ):
Canned Fish Pack, 1965 Modern Vessel Joins Cod 1"1
South Africa: Pelagic Shoal Fish Catch Up In 1
South Africa Republic: Hake Fmds Good J'vlark t 10 .rent Record Whaling ason In 1 65
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Boat OVJners Request lncr s In Price
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Spain: Signals Used by Pair 1 rawler
Atlantic Taiwan:
Fisheries Development Tr nds To Buy Fishmg Vessels
Togo: Receives Fishmg Vessel from V. est
Tunisla: Five Fishmg Vessels from bast rmnn
U. S. S. R.: Pacific aUop Productlon and Exports to
U. S. Fish ProductIOn Costs Expansion of Paclflc 'Ish rI s Pacific Ocean Perch Cntch by Large rn
Factory Trawler Ocean Perch Fishery Off Prlbllof Islands Shrimp Catch in the Gulf of lask Sealing Operatlons BE."gm In Paclflc Whaling Begms 10 the. 'or h Paclflc Expansion of Flshmg f Ie t Additions to Paclflc Fleet Freezer -Trawler Prtlukl Dehvered 0
viets by Damsh Shlpyard Expertmenta~ Catamaran Tra .... l r ~orthwest Atlantlc Flshery Research Flshery and Oceanographlc Studies of th
Pacific Ocean Research in the Indian Ocean Study of Fish Reaction 0 Sound
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