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TABLE 2. — Estimated total catch of shrimp in pounds, heads-off weight, by area of capture for U.S. vessels in the 

 Guianas-Brazil shrimp fishery, 1972-74. Monthly data for January-June 1972 were not available. 



TABLE 3. — Annual landings of shrimp for the Guianas-Brazil shrimp fishery, 

 1960-74. Figures are in thousands of pounds, heads-off weight. Figures in paren- 

 theses are estimated values. Data for 1960-69 are from Naiduand Boerema( 1972). 



'Novoa, D. 1974. Pesqueria Venezolana en el area de las Guayanas durante 1973. Unpubl. 

 manuscr., 14 p. FAO Governmental Consultation on Shrimp Resources in the CICAR Area. FIR: 

 SR/74/NR-9. 



2 Not available. 



3 Does not include catch of 1 1 Cuban-flag trawlers. 



Guiana; but only national-flag vessels operated in 

 Brazil and Venezuela. The variation in landings 

 between countries reflects mainly the differences 

 in the sizes of the fleets supplying the processing 

 plants in these countries (Table 3). 



SPECIES COMPOSITION AND 

 DISTRIBUTION 



Our discussion about the species caught and 

 their geographic distribution is based on data from 

 logbooks. Vessel captains recorded a single, most 

 abundant species to represent their daily catch; 

 however, if two or more species were present, they 

 recorded their catch as mixed. Single species were 

 recorded in 58% of the catch and mixed species in 

 42%. Since the four species of shrimps are easily 



FIGURE 3.— Total landings of shrimp (heads off) for the 

 Guianas-Brazil fishery, 1960-74 and the number of vessels 

 operating each year. Data are from Tables 2 and 3. 



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