and quality of landed shrimp. Peeled shrinp are inspected by the 

 Conmodities Inspection Service. The Marketing Board also issues licenses 

 to the fishemen, and may indicate the ports at which shrimp must be 

 landed. It may fix the quantities and varieties to be landed. The minimum 

 length of shrimp for export has been set by the Board at 2|- inches and that 

 for domestic consumption at 2^ to 2-^ inches. 



Little canning and freezing of shrimp is done in the Netherlands. 

 The processing of small shrimp into meal is carried out by fish-meal 

 plants in the Provinces of Friesland, Groningen, and North and South 

 Holland, 



Exports of shrimp from the Netherlands during 1955 totaled 

 li,lj69,000 pounds compared with 3,3^2,000 pounds in 195U, Almost 95 percent 

 of the exports, as a rule, go to Belgium and France, in about equal pro- 

 portions. The preference of the French trade is for unpeeled shrimp and 

 that of the Belgian trade for peeled shrimp. Western Germany and Great 

 Britain are other markets for Netherlands shrimp. 



United States inports of shrimp from the Netherlands are as 



follows : 



Pounds 



Value 



The United States also has a small export trade in shrimp with 

 the Netherlands. Export statistics for recent years are as follows: 



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