of fisheries. In contrast to bounties and subsidies which generally 

 are reducible to monetary terms vdth regard to individual fishermen 

 or fisheries crganizations, the benefits accruing frcm "Other Govern- 

 mental Aid" do not lend themselves to monetary measurementSj either 

 individually or collectivelyo The f\inds expended in the form of 

 '*Other Governmental Aid" are, inmost cases, non-recoverable. 



Governmental activities Ti^-iich tend to improve the basic con- 

 ditions of fisheries operations are classified as facilitation 

 services. These services include fish protection and propagation 

 research and investigation, the improvement of port facilities, and 

 other activities affecting the general working conditions of fisher- 

 men; for example, biological, statistical, and economic research, 

 technological assistance, dissemination of information, and education 

 of fishermen. 



In some countries, expenditures for so-called facilitation 

 services probably include items of expense •»*iich, in fact, were 

 expended for administrative functions, and vice versa, 



'^Administrative functions'* cover chiefly the routine activities 

 of the fisheries bureaus. Part of the expenditures under this head 

 have to do with the general supervision of fisheries and with the 

 administration of the various other forms of aid to fisheries. 

 Others are for the enforcement of fishery laws, such as those de- 

 signed to prevent excessive depletion of waters, or to assure the 

 quality of the product marketed. In some countries, part of the 

 eijqsenditure is for the collection of statistics of the fisheries. 



Summary of Findings 



Some governmental aid is given to fisheries in all the 26 

 coimtries examined. The specific aid to the tuna fisheries could 

 only, in few cases, be --i^parated from the aid which was given to the 

 fisheries generally in ^he respective country, Tfllhere the assistance, 

 given to the tuna industry, could not be eliminated, it was assimed 

 that the assistance given to that industry is in about the same 

 proportion to the assistance given to the fishery industry generally 

 as the catch of tuna and tunalike fishes is to the total catch by 

 quantities or by values i^spectively, ^llith regard to same countries 

 in which tuna or tunalike fishes are not landed or with regard to 

 countries in which tuna or tunalike fishes are landed in very small 



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