i rjPCFTS AND T^yp CFTS (Cent.) 



l^ld, JrnuF-ry - Aufrr.st 



ViFIGHT m 



Dried salted fish lylBl,lUk 



Canned fic-h 282,601 



FrozGR fish 32,811 



Canada, the United States, Argentina, Chile and Spain also exported 

 sizeable shipments of fish to Santos in the above y-rars. 



Unofficial e:'port data for Santos shovr that Z,6, 605 kilograir.s of canned fish 

 v/ere shipped from Sao Paulo thrrragh that port in j.9'C6, 



Statistics published by the State of Sao Paulo she? the f cllo'-ving iraporta 

 of fish froTTi. cthor States of Brazil through Santos in 19A5s 



lEIGHT K VALUE W. 



KILOCPAr^S CPU ZE: IF: OS 



I'lsh rlried, salted, 

 cthervrise preserved, 

 and fish extracts 1,392,AC1 16,301,239 



Unspecified 1.9/1,070 20.368.87 9 



Total 3,333,4.71 36,670,118 



Exports thraigh Santos to cthor Statos of Brazil in 19/v5, were, according 

 to the sane set of statistics: 



YEIGOT El ViJIIE ffl 



KILOGF.AK'S CPU ZE IPCS 



Fish dried, salted, 



otherr;ise preserved, 



and fish extracts 82,030 83,903 



Unspecified 19,039 305,417 



T^tal 101,069 389,320 



Rio do Janeiro, Rio Grande de Sul and Parana •...-ere the principal exporting 

 otates and xt if: b'^.lieved that most of Sac Paulo's shiments went to Fio de 

 Janeiro. Some exchange of fish by rail takes place betv.-een Sao Paulo and Rio 

 dc Janeiro but the quantity is unknorm. 



Several years ago Sao Paulo started to develop an industry far the tanning 

 of the skins of the fish kncvm as "peixe-boi" (ox fish), v;hich v;as brought" 

 froE the rc.gion of the Arazon River. Althcugh the leather produced '7.-s hi;:^My 

 touted as a substitute for nany kinds of good quality aninal leather, technical 



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