AVAIIABILITY OF PORTS, PROCESSING FACILITIES AND MARKETS 



Honolulu and the United States Pacific coast offer the only 

 adequate port facilities for tuna fleet operations in the eastern 

 mid=PacifiCo Several suitable anchorages and docks are available 

 in the area, but are without any logistic facilities. There is a 

 dock in the lagoon at Palnyra and another at Canton. Nearly 

 complete lack of facilities would necessitate shore-side construc- 

 tion or use of a mothership for any fleet which would use the Line 

 or Phoenix Islands as a base of operations. 



There is a limited market for fresh tuna in the Hawaiian 

 Islands J and it is doubtful if this consumer market could be 

 increased to any great extent in the near future » There are two 

 tuna canneries, one on Oahu and one on Kauai Islando The most sub- 

 stantial potential market for ary large-scale increase in mid- 

 Pacific tuna landings appears to be the Pacific coast canneries, 

 although Hawaiian canners could absorb considerable additional 

 fish and, of cou-rse, are capable of expansion© 



LIMITATIONS OF TERRITORIAL WATERS AND FOREIGN 

 REGULATIONS ON THE UNITED STATES TUNA FISHERY 



This particular subject is of great interest. Mary phases of 

 it have a most pronounced bearing on present fishing activity in 

 the tuna industry* The subject is one that has received much 

 publicity through newspaper reports of seizures of United States 

 fishing vessels by foreign governments. It has also been the 

 subject of endless discussion in many quarters and its delicate 

 nature with respect to foreign relations can well be appreciatedo 

 Effective prosecution of fishing activity in the present areas of 

 operation hinges on many decisions already made and yet to be made 

 in this fieldo Considerable pertinent information on the subject 

 follows o It has been carefully drawn together iiy staff investi- 

 gators in cooperation with other government departments and the tima 

 industry© Only basic concepts are presented and no attempt has 

 been made to go into the various minute details involved in the 

 subject© 



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