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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



International (Contd.): 



substrate within that zone consisted of mud 

 which is high in H2S, which tends to plug trawl 

 nets. 



(2) Large schools of hake occur off both 

 Chile and Peru with apparently identical be- 

 havior patterns to those occurring off Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. The hake rise into the 

 surface layers at night and reform into com- 

 pact schools near the ocean floor in the morn- 

 ing. 



Fishing for hake, crew of Chilean trawler lower a net off Valpa- 

 raiso. 



(3) Large bottom trawl catches of hake are 

 taken off Chile and Peru. To date, midwater 

 trawling for hake has not been attempted with 

 efficient gear. If this were done, however, 

 catches would be extremely large --probably 

 much larger than are now being taken with 

 bottom trawls. 



Australia 



WESTERN AUSTRALIA FISHERIES 

 DEVELOPMENT P ROJ ECT ANNOUNCED: 



A major British company with internation- 

 al interests in fisheries, shipbuilding, and 

 other industries announced (in March 1966) 

 plans to conduct a $1 million fisheries re- 

 search and development project in Western 



Australia. The company has purchased a 

 factoryship as part of the plan. 



The 272-ton ship was formerly used by 

 the C.S.I.R.O. and the Queensland Govern- 

 ment in testing the shrimp potential of fish- 

 ing grounds in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The 

 vessel is in Exmouth Gulf, Western Austra- 

 lia, where the first fishing experiments will 

 begin. 



She will be mothership to a fleet of shrimp 

 trawlers until a shore station and processing 

 plant is built. She will then move to other 

 grounds farther north where the process will 

 be repeated. 



In addition to processing shrimp for ex- 

 port, the ship will be used as a service depot 

 for the company's fleet. While the fishing 

 operation is in progress, local fishermen 

 will be trained in new techniques of fishing 

 and the fleet will be used in research. 



Establishment of a tuna fishery in West- 

 ern Australia is also in the company's plans. 



The British firm moved into Western Aus- 

 tralia in 1960 when it purchased a firm in 

 Fremantle. In Sydney last year a director 

 confirmed reports that the parent connpany 

 was planning to work with Japanese interests 

 to develop a tuna fishery in the west. In 

 March 1966, a company spokesman announced 

 that the plans to work with the Japanese had 

 been canceled and that the company would go 

 into tuna fishing on its own. 



Fishing was to take place in waters north 

 of Carnarvon and processing carried out at 

 a port on the northwest coast. The venture, 

 he said, could compete successfully with 

 Japanese tuna-fishing groups already oper- 

 ating off Western Australia. Those groups 

 caught about 4,500 metric tons of Western 

 Australian tuna in 1964. (Fish Trades Re- 

 view, March 1966.) 



Barbados 



BARBADOS FISHING ACTIVITY, 1965: 



An American-owned enterprise had a 

 reasonably successful year in 1965 in Bar- 

 bados. It exported over 2 million pounds of 

 frozen shrimp to foreign markets (principally 



