July 1951 



COM'IiiSGIAL FISHEEIES BEVIEW 



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FOREIGN 



T~i "imr'n 



International 



FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION 



TOffiLFIH SESSION ^ F^ COimCIL : The Twelfth Session of the Council of the Food 

 and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was scheduled to begin at Rome, Italy, on June 11, 

 1951, a U. S. Department of State news release of June 8 announced. 



The forthcoming Session, the first to be held since the transfer of the FAO 

 headquarters to Rome, will review a statement, prepared by the Director General of 

 the Organization, on the changes which have taken place in the world food and agri- 

 culture situation since the Fifth Session of the FAO Conference. 



The Council will also make a detailed study of reports and proposals relating 

 to such matters as the long-term objectives of FAO, international investment, full 

 employment, commodity problems, technical assistance, plans for the Sixth Session 

 of the FAO Conference next November, administrative and financial matters, and nomi- 

 nations for Director General and Chairman of the Council. 



The Council of the FAO was established in I947 by the Third Session of the FAO 

 Conference to act for the full Conference between sessions and to keep the world 

 food and agriculture situation under constant review. 



Canada 



DIGBY SCALLOP FISHERY ; In the past 3I years the scallop fishery centering on 

 Digby, Nova Scotia, has grown from practically nothing to an Industry worth half a 

 million dollars a year to Canada, the ]lfay-June Trade News of the Canadietn Department 

 of Fisheries asserts. 



The Digby fishery was the first major cammercial development in the Bay of 

 Fundy to use modern vessels built especially for scallop dragging. Similar boats 

 are used to a lesser extent by Prince Edward Island fishermen, and some scallops are 

 still taken in Mahone Bay on the south shore of Nova Scotia. However, the dragging 

 operations there are carried out by individual fishermen using motor boats and small 

 drags towed and hauled by hand. Most of their catch is sold locally in Lunenburg 

 County. 



Scallop Areas and Season : In 1949, a Digby scallop dragger, under charter to 

 the Research Board's Biological Station at St, Andrews, N. B. , discovered another 

 new bed with good commercial possibilities in Northumberland Strait, near Plctou 

 Island. 



Digby and the Bay of Fundy, however, are the names most closely associated with 

 Canadian scallops. The fishery was built up during the 1920'3, largely with scallops 



