Table 1. --NAMIBIA. Data on licensed fishing vessels, 1993. 



Type of fishing 



Number of licensed vessels 



Foreign Charter' 



Freezer 



Total 



Tonnage 



Number of vessels 



Gross Registered Tons 



DEMERSAL: 



1 10-mm mesh 



22 



27 



56 



27,465 



75-mm mesh 



12 



14 



1,721 



Longline 



2,444 



MID-WATER TRAWL 



42 



42 



84 



192,226 



TUNA: 



Pole-and-Line 



19 



20 



39 



3,666 



Longline 



14 



1,234 



LINEFISH: 



11 



12 



692 



PELAGIC (purse-seine): 



41 



41 



10,314 



TOTAL: 



128 



95 



39 



262 



239,762 



SOURCE: Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources. Note: "Foreign" indicates the number of vessels that are 

 registered under a foreign flag; the rest are Namibian-registered, but may still be foreign-owned and based. 

 "Chartered" indicates the number of vessels used by concessionaires lacking sufficient vessels of their own to exploit 

 their quotas. Such vessels are often, but not necessarily, foreign registered. For the demersal fleet, "freezer" 

 indicates the number of freezer factory ships; the rest are "wet-fish" vessels supplying on-shore processing factories. 

 The number of freezer ships is a more reliable estimate of the size of the distant-water demersal fleet than country 

 of registration. 



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