TABLE 30 o - TURKEYS EXPORTS OF BONITO BY COUNTRY OF DESTINATION, 

 1939 AMD 1947 



1939 



1947 



FRESH 



SALTED 5 CANNED 

 SMOKED, OR DRIED 



SALTED, CANNED 

 FRESH SM)KED.OR DRIED 



Italy 

 Greece 



Bulgaria 

 Other 

 Total 



FOUNDS 



22,438,080 



10,032,750 



4,365.900 



1.025,325 



37»862.055 



POUNDS 



183,015 



438,795 



4,410 



1,947,015 



2.573^235 



POUNDS 



2,438,730 



3,234,735 



507,150 



POUNDS 



,57^330 

 207,270 

 632.835 

 897,435 



Small amounts of bonito are canned by five canneries in the 

 Istanbul area, A quality product is produced although the processing 

 equipment is not modern » In 1948 the United Kingdom contracted with 

 the Ccinneries for 70,000 cases of canned bonito o Whether or not del- 

 iveries Tfvere made on this contract is not knowno One freezing and cold- 

 storage plant freezes bonito and tuna for shipment to Italy « Small 

 amounts of bonito are salted, but the decline in the bonito catch has 

 forced most salteries to close dov»no 



ITALY 



Tunas are taken along the coasts of Sardinia, Sicily, and the toe 

 of the Italian boot., They are caught in huge fixed nets or traps ( ton- 

 nare) as they migrate to^'vard the Black Sea in the spring and return 

 tovvard the Atlantic Ocean in the fall. Although tunas migrate into 

 the Adriatic Sea, they frequent only the Yugoslav portion of that body 

 of water o The catch is principally bluefin, which the Italians call 

 tonno ; next in importance are bonito, and skipjack. Virtually all of 

 the catch is canned^ Sicily is the center of the canning industry.. 



Landings of tuna in recent years have varied from a low of 

 2,500,000 pounds to a little over 6,000,000 pounds, as i ndicated in 

 table 31 „ 



The Italian people are heavy consumers of Italian-style canned 

 tuna (heavily salted in olive oil) « Demand is much greater than the 

 domestic production, and Italy is second only to the United States 

 among the world's tuna importers c Pre-Vforld War II imports, princi- 

 pally from Turkey, Portugal, Spain, and Spanish Morocco, were important. 



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