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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 13, No. 7 



India 



FISHSRI.EN REPORT SUCCgSgUL FISHING OFF INDIA : Danish fishermen operating out 

 of Calcutta, India, with two Danish cutters report that in ten trips fish valued at 

 130,000 Danish kroner (US$26,100) were landed. The best catch was 55,000 pounds of 

 fish in two days. The catches were marketed readily. 



Earlier contracts of six months for these Danish fishermen have been extended 

 for an additional half year. According to the toy 23 issue of Fiskaren , a Norwegian 

 fishery periodical, the fishermen are pleased with the operation and the results 

 achieved. 



nff.-KP-aEA AND LAKE FISHING EXPANDED IN I95O : The increasing demand for fish as 

 a substitute for scarce meat supplies gave great impetus to the development of lake 

 and deep-sea fishing in Israel during 1950, the American Embassy at Tel Aviv points 

 out in a report dated January I5. The development of pond fishing, on the other 



hand, received little encouragenent because of high 

 production costs and the lack of foreign exchange to 

 buy feedstuff s. 



Fisheries development was given additional force 

 by the immigration of trained fishermen, many from Tur- 

 key and Tripolitania, In the course of I95O a company 

 established by Belgian and local businessmen started 

 deep-sea fishing operations on a large scale. Supported 

 by the Government, the company began operations with 

 two large vessels from Ostende, Belgium, and later 

 ordered additional vessels. A considerable catch was 

 already reaching Israel's markets before the end of the 

 year. 



Coastal fishing was also expected to benefit from 

 the fishing ports ^^daich were under construction. A 

 Danish fishing company trained local fishermen during 

 the winter on a vessel it brought to Israel's shores. 



Lake fishing progressed despite some consumer re- 

 luctance to accept the small sardine-like fish taken in 

 Lake Tiberias. In order to improve marketing conditions, 

 the Food Control authorities limited the sale of imported 

 frozen fish during certain periods in the summer of 1950. 



The total catch during the first nine months of I950 

 was 4,278 metric tons. Fish bred in ponds constituted 

 roughly 57 percent, the deep-sea catch IS percent, 

 lake fish I4 percent, and the coastal fishing catch 

 11 percent of the total. During the corresponding 

 period of 1949 only 2,610 metric tons were produced. 

 Of the 1949 catch, 69 percent was pond fish, I4 per- 

 cent deep-sea fish, 11 percent lake fish, and only 6 

 percent from coastal fish. 





BOUNDARIES OF ISRAEL ARE INDI- 

 CATED BY STIPPLED LINE. DOTTED 

 LINE INDICATES FORMER BOUNDARIES 

 OF PALESTINE 



NOTE: 



ALSO SEE COMMERCIAL F ISHERIES REVIEW .APRIL 1950 

 PP. 55-9. 



