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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



Canada (Contd.): 



The 1965 prices for herring oil ranged 

 from 11.4 Canadian cents a pound f.o.b. To- 

 ronto to 12.9 cents a pound. 



Table 4 - Canadian Pricesl/ for Herring OU and Certain | 



Vegetable Oils and Lard, 1965 





Month 



Soybean 

 Oil 



Malayan 

 Palm Oil 



Ceylon 

 Coconut Oili./ 



British Columbia 

 Herrinq Oil 



Lard 



ianuary. . 



........ IC 





^erPound) ...,-- 1 



14,91 



13.7 



17.9 



12.8 



13.7 



"ebruaiy . 



15.41 



14.3 



18.5 



12.9 



14.2 



March . . 



15.49 



14.7 



20.2 



12.9 



14.4 



April . . . 



15.42 



15.1 



20.7 



12.9 



14.9 



May . . , 



13.99 



15.2 



21.8 



12.9 



14.1 



lune . . . 



12.85 



14.9 



21.5 



12.2 



14.3 



[uly . . . 



13.35 



14.2 



18.4 



11.5 



15.5 



August . . 



13.38 



13.2 



16.8 



11.4 



15.4 



September 



14.00 



12.8 



16.1 



11,5 



15.8 



Dctober . 



14.60 



13.4 



17.6 



11.9 



15.6 



November 



14.73 



13.4 



17.9 



12.1 



15.3 



December 



14.36 



13.3 __ 



17.8 



12.2 



15.0 



1/F.o.b. Toronto. 





2/Ceylon coconut oil is no longer quoted regularly as it is both | 



high-priced relative to Malayan coconut oil and not alw 



ays 



available. 





Fish Meal: Canadian production of fish 

 meal was up substantially in 1965 due to in- 

 creased output on the East Coast. In 1965, 

 there was a decline in exports of herring meal 

 to the United States which was partly offset by 

 larger shipments of other fish meal to theU- 

 nited Kingdom. (Agricultural Attache, United 

 States Embassy. Ottawa, Ap ril 21, 1966.) 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , July 1965 p. 62. 

 5j: 5}c 5}c ^c >;; 



ATLANTIC WHALING STUDIED 

 WITH AID OF JAPANESE VESSEL: 



The # 17 Kyo Maru . a 187-foot steel whale 

 catcher vessel from Japan, arrived in mid- 

 May 1966 in St. John's, Newfoundland, to 

 carry out exploratory work and demonstrate 

 modern whale -catching techniques and meth- 

 ods to the Canadian fishing industry. Scien- 

 tists from the Canadian Federal Fisheries 

 Department are also spending time aboard 

 the vessel to collect and assess biological 

 and oceanographic data. The vessel is work- 

 ing for the Canadian Fisheries Department 

 under a 6-month charter ending November 15, 

 1966. Any whales caught will be processed at a 

 plant in Dildo, Newfoundland. (Canadian De- 

 partment of Fisheries, Ottawa, May 16, 1966.) 



North Atlantic and Arctic whaling has been 

 conducted on a relatively small scale Ln recent 

 years. Total catch by all countries in that 

 area in 1963/64 was 1,443 whales, according 

 to the Food and Drug Administration. 



Chile 



FISH MEAL PRODUCTION 

 REACHES RECORD PROPORTIONS: 



In the first quarter of 1966, fish meal pro- 

 duction in Chile totaled 73,474 metric tons, 

 which exceeded the production of 70,579 tons 

 for the entire year in 1965. Anchovy catches 

 in early March 1966 declined somewhat but 

 the fish returned after mid -March and the 

 April catch may equal that of March. Chilean 

 anchovy catches by month in early 1966 were 

 (in metric tons): January--194,199; Febru- 

 ary--153,422; March--75,390. (U. S.Embassy, 

 Santiago, April 29, 1966.) 



Colombia 



SHRIMP FISHERY, BUENAVENTURA. 1965: 

 The nascent shrimp industry, centered at 

 Buenaventura on the Pacific coast, continued 

 its growth during 1965 and reports that about 

 800 metric tons of shrimp were exported dur- 

 ing 1965 with a value of over US$1,400,000. 

 All Colombian shrimp are exported to the Unit- 

 ed States market. Local operators are ham- 



