quantities only, assistance given to the fisheries generally was 

 discussed -rtien it was assumed that the countries in question will 

 in the near future develop tuna fishing or a tuna processing 

 industry, 



A fev7 countries give direct subsidies to their fisheries 

 either in the form of bounties, grants for vessel construction or 

 other direct grants. Only 7 out of 26 countries were foiuid to assist 

 ■with such direct subsidies which are considered to be non-recoverable 

 losses for the government treasury in question^ Seventeen countrifis 

 out of 26 make loans to fishermen or fishery industrial corporations, 

 for the development of their industry, mostly for the acquisition 

 or reconditioning of vessels » The United States is included among 

 these seventeen since the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is 

 active in this field. Some information about its activity is given 

 later in this chapter. Seven countries out of 26 give quarantees 

 of such loans when the loans are advanced from private sources. 



Only a few countries, namely five, maintain public ice or 

 refrigerated warehouse's for the use of fishermen or fish processors. 

 Seven countries provide for emergency relief in the case of disaster, 

 hurricanes or as consequence of war emergencies , 



Twenty-one out of 26 countries are engaged in biological re- 

 search and 20 countries give assistance for fishery technological 

 research. Only 16 countries support fish propagation by public funds. 

 Fishermen's schools and fishermen's collegesare supported by govern- 

 ment contributions in 12 cotmtrieso Exploratory fishing is supported 

 by the respective governments in 10 countrieso 



The importance of the fishery products as objects of inter- 

 national or national trade can be seen fron the fact that 1^ countries 

 have set aside funds to support marketing and marketing research. 

 Only 13 countries support regiolar statistical data collectiono The 

 same 13 countries have set aside appropriations for economic research. 

 Twelve countries give assistance by dissemination of information, 

 mostly concerning the results of biological studies or exploratoiy 

 fishing. Some coimtries also make available to the fishery industries 

 regular marketing reports as well as trade conditions in foreign 

 states. Five countries provide special legislation for certain types 

 of fishery enterprises for example, for fishery cooperative assistance, 

 for fishery export associations or for fishery monopolies. 



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