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poration, to engage in an intensive campaign to promote the sale of Moroccan sar- 

 dines in the United States and Canada. The project is the culmination of several 

 months of preliminary investigations, which- included an on-the-spot study of the 

 United State a-Catiadian markets, and it is being actively encouraged by the Protec- 

 torate Government, particularly through its export promotion agency. Office Cheri- 

 fien de Controle et d'Exportation. 



The French and Moroccan Food Corporation plans to establish a branch office 

 in New York and, perhaps, in Montreal and will have warehouses in both cities. 

 These branch offices will act as importers in the United States and Canada so that 

 the corporation will sell directly to American and Canadian jobbers and large whole- 

 salers, a June 5 American consular dispatch from Casablanca points out. It hopes to 

 dispose of 75,000 cases of sardines during the current season. 



The corporation will concentrate on one brand of sardines only, and plans to 

 ship only first-quality sardines. For the first year, at least, only a part of the 

 sardines shipped will be skinless and boneless, but it is hoped to increase the pro- 

 portion of this type as rapidly as possible. Both the plain and the skinless and 

 boneless sardines will be packed in pure olive oil, however, and v;ill be shipped in 

 Norwegian -type cans, with individual key attached, and covered with paper wrapping. 



Germany 



FISHING FLEET PROTESTS REDUCTION M FUEL OIL SUBSIDY : In protest against re- 

 ductions in the subsidy on fuel oil for Diesel-powered vessels, the entire German 

 high-seas fishing fleet returned to port on May 28, states a May 31 American consu- 

 lar dispatch from Hamburg. The German Fishery Association states that this action 

 should not be termed a strike, but that all vessels have discharged their crews and 

 will remain in port indefinitely unless the subsidy issue is settled. 



German fishing vessels, which had been able to buy fuel oil at the subsidized 

 price of DM120 (about $28.50) per metric ton, were faced with a price of DM205 

 ($48.80) per ton under a cut in the subsidy announced by the Federal Government late 

 in May. The new price is the charge made after the new subsidy of DM290 ($69.00) 

 per ton has been deducted from the normal price of DM495 ($117.80) per ton, and it 

 is underetood that payments on this scale were to be made retroactive to the first 

 of April. 



Fish prices fell during the early months of 1950 due to a decline in consumer 

 demand. Faced with this as well as with rising wage and other costs, fishing ves- 

 sel owners seem to feel that the cut in their fuel oil subsidy is enough to drive 

 them out of business. They are therefore keeping their vessels in port while their 

 protests are being studied by the Federal Government. A statement in one Hamburg 

 newspaper indicates that some fishermen have threatened to land their catches in the 

 Soviet Zone if they have to put to sea again without the restored subsidy. 



Greenland 



FOUR DANISH FREEZERS ESTABLISIE D; After July 1 four Danish freezers will oper- 

 ate in Greenland in Tovkussak, Christianshaab, Egedeaminde , and Sukkertoppen. Ma- 

 chinery and equipment installations are now being completed in the latter two free- 



