Table VI-1 — Food From the Sea in the War on Hunger 



[Obligations in thousands of dollars] 



Actual Estimated 



FY 1969 FY 1970 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (BCF): 



Research and development 2, 242 2, 292 



Demonstration plant 312 1, 388 



BCF subtotal 2, 554 3, 680 



Agency for International Development (AID): 



FPC purchase and implementation 72 52 



Pilot plants 8 



FPC market feasibility study 241 



Subtotal FPC 72 301 



Fishery surveys 10 4 



Center of competence 750 



Direct fish production 704 704 



General technical assistance ^ 704 704 



Fish culture 293 



Subtotal, other items 2, 317 1, 615 



AID subtotal 2, 389 1, 916 



Total food from sea 4, 943 5, 596 



•Mostly United Nations Development Program. 



Under an AID program to further the development of university exper- 

 tise in the economics of international fisheries, a fisheries "center of compe- 

 tence" has been instituted at the University of Rhode Island. AID has 

 granted $750,000 over a 5-year period to assist that university in undertaking 

 an inter-disciplinary curricula for both U.S. and foreign students to focus 

 upon the development of world fisheries, with particular emphasis on the 

 socioeconomics of fisheries development. 



In fiscal year 1971 AID plans fishery programs in the amount of $2.6 

 million. 



In developing FPC technology during 1969, the following accomplish- 

 ments highlighted the program. The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries— 



(1) Completed predesign research, process, and plant design, and 

 commenced site preparation for a 50-ton-per-day FPC demonstration 

 plant at Aberdeen Wash., described above. In fiscal year 1971, the 

 plant is expected to be completed. It will commence experimental 

 production using Pacific hake ; 



(2) Prepared samples of FPC from a number of species of lean and 

 fatty fish to obtain information needed for process modification, and 

 to provide sample material for testing and nutritional evaluation ; 



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