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TABLE III 



Chile 



Utilization of the Catch in 1951 



(In Metric Tons) 



Landings 



Percentage 



Edible Portion 



Fish 



Source . Estimated from data coiiccced by the Direccion de Pesca y Caza, Ministerio de 

 -Economia y Comercio, Chile. 



* Utilized in poultry and milk cow feeding. 



Exports were valued in 1951 at about 45 million; imports of fish 

 commodities were 3 million, and imported supplies and materials for the 

 industry (not including the value of the large trawl vessels brought to 

 Chile) ^n additional 25 milHon. It is estimated that the foreign ex- 

 change balance for the fishing industry is about 50 million pesos an- 

 nually. 



5. Whaling Industry 



Two Chilean companies engage in whaling. The larger is the 

 "Compaiiia Industrial" with its principal offices in Valparaiso; the other, 

 which is quite small, the "Compaiiia Pesquera y Commercial de Macaya 

 Hermanos", is established in San Vicente, Talcahuano. 



The large firm has six whaling vessels and a shore station at Quin- 

 tay, not far from Valparaiso. The whaling operations of this company 

 were begun during the last war to provide substitute materials for tal- 

 low and other scarce fats in its manufacturing processes. In 1951, this 

 company caught and processed 1096 whales (735 sperm whales, the 

 balance being baleen whales, chiefly finback — Table IV). 



