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people. This is part of the turnaround of our entire foreign aid 

 program. 



I suppose agriculture is the best example I can cite. We have not 

 had much experience with the turnaround on the fishing side, but we 

 have on the agricultural side. I know that is of great interest to your 

 State, too. Congressman Pelly. On the agricultural side we have had 

 the same concern, a very valid concern over a number of years whether 

 we were stimulating agricultural production in other countries coming 

 into competition with our own. We still have that concern. However, 

 the experience over the years has shown that the countries that we have 

 been able to get on their own feet and raise their living standards and 

 get off the AID roll became our biggest agricultural customers, be- 

 came dollar customers. That was true of Japan. 



Mr. Pellt. Are they buying our fish ? 



Mr. Waters. In the total trade pattern with the United States, they 

 have been buying more of our farm products as they increase their 

 farm production. 



Mr. Pellt. What we want them to do is to feed their own hungry 

 people with the fish they catch. We do not wish to see our own fishery 

 resources destroyed in the process, or witness further encroachment 

 upon our own markets. 



We also are getting inferior products, such as Greenland halibut, 

 which is not a halibut but a flounder shipped into our country. The 

 housewife does not know the difference. She only sees that it sells for 

 a cheaper price. Yet we cannot get the cooperation of the Federal 

 Trade Commission to require adequate labeling. Proper labeling of 

 such fish products would be of some help. 



Mr. Waters. Of course, labeling is a problem beyond our control. 

 We can be influential and helpful in broadening the acceptability in 

 the markets within their own country. We feel that there is a greater 

 opportunity to do this in the development of new food products rather 

 than just the conventional food products, fish as fish. If we are to 

 broaden the use of fish in formulated products such as we are going 

 to experiment with, with new fish protein concentrate, it will tax the 

 capacity of their industry to handle this type of approach in our 

 studies prove productive. 



(The following was supplied in reference to the above:) 



Korean Fishing Program 



The total catch of fish in Korea for CY 1966 was 420,000 MTs of which an 

 estimated 386,000 MTs was consumed locally. All indications are that the con- 

 sumption of fish hy the Korean population will increase to over 500,000 MTs hy 

 1970. This is in keeping with population increases, per capita income growth, 

 and most importantly, with present hopes of the National Health Services to 

 increase the present individual daily intake of protein from, 70 to 80 grams a 

 day during the next several years. 



It is difficult to make an estimate of the amount of fish in the average Korean 

 diet since it varies greatly from coastal to inland areas, as well as hetween urban 

 and rural populations. However, using existing statistics in Japan as a guide and 

 making allowances for diiferences in the availahility and marketing of fish as 

 opposed to other sources of protein, we estimate that roughly 12 percent of the 

 daily intake of 70 grams of protein is derived from fish in the Korean diet. Con- 

 sidering the scarcity of other sources of protein, there is a coordinated effort now 

 to increase the consumption of fish in Korea hy improving the catch and par- 

 ticularly by bettering the methods of preservation and marketing of fish in the 

 interior of the country. 



