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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



U.S.S.R. (Contd.): 



Fig. 2 - Conveyor used to cany Luna from deck to processing lines below deck 

 aboard Soviet tuna factoryship. Fisli are weighed; man measuring fish, and 

 another recoiding data.. Conveyor rubber mat has lips to keep fisli from slid- 

 ing off belt. 



line. Stainless chute is 



Fig, 5 - Weight checker — cans weighing short are picked out of line by means 

 of a "phototube. " Men are timing flow of cans. 



ter 9 months in the Indian Ocean. A total of 

 about 1,500 metric tons of fish were caught, 

 or one -third more than the quota established 

 for the trip. Over 2 million cans of fish were 

 packed. 



Editor's note: This was the vessel's sec- 

 ond fishing trip. On its first trip (in 1965) the 

 Leninskii Luch was fishing also for sharks to 

 be exported as frozen meat and fins to Japan. 



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INDIAN OCEA.N FISHING EXPANDED: 



At least 2 fishing trawlers (both from the 

 Black Sea Fisheries Administration) began 

 fishing in the Mozambique Channel (between 

 Africa and the Island of Madagascar) in May 

 1966. 



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EXPANSION OF FAR EASTERN FISHERIES: 



Soviet fishery planners foresee the largest 

 expansion of Soviet fishery operations during 

 the 1966-1970 Five-Year Plan in the Far East 

 where several large fishing ports are being 

 built or are being planned. The Vladivostok 

 fishing port will be the largest in the Soviet 

 Union exceeding that of Murmansk where 

 presently over 800,000 metric tons of fish a 

 year are landed. At nearby Nakhodka several 

 new fishing wharfs have been built, as well as 

 two large refrigerated storage plants. One, 

 capable of storing 11,000 metric tons of fish- 

 ery products, is the largest refrigerated fish 

 storage in the Soviet Union. The Far East 



