Tv;o Japanese-owned vessels are employed by a company which is 

 a joint Burmese- Japanese venture. Another vessel to be owned outright 

 by the company was commissioned in Japan. The ship was scheduled to be 

 in operation in Burmese vjaters about July 1956. Representatives of the 

 firm have indicated that a large expansion of the shrimp fishery and of 

 other branches of the fishing industry of Burma could be brought about 

 with the introduction of refrigeration. 



Large untapped resources of shrimp are believed to exist in 

 the long coastal area of Burma as well as in the many estuaries and bays 

 along the coast. 'Waters of the Burmese coast are reported to be rich 

 in shrimp, but exploitation of the resources requires equipment and 

 manpower. 



IRAN 



Shrimp are not produced in commercial quantities in Iran, 

 Japanese exploratory surveys have been made recently in the Persian 

 Gulf which reportedly produced 8 tons of shrimp. A substantial quantity 

 of small shrimp was discarded in the course of this operation. 



Reports of the formation of a joint Japanese-Iranian company 

 to exploit the fishing potential in Iran have not as yet been sub- 

 stantiated. Plans for joint American-Iranian operations have not 

 progressed beyond the initial negotiation stage. 



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