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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 7 



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



dition. It is not quite clear whether the Slava 

 will operate in the Pacific as a whaler or as 

 a fish-processing vessel. However, since 

 she is scheduled to depart on her next Paci- 

 fic expedition within a short time, it seems 

 likely that she will be- -at least this season- - 

 engaged in whaling. Conversion of the vessel 

 for fish processing would probably take con- 

 siderable time. The transfer of the Slava 

 may also be one of the reasons why the Vla- 

 divostok and Dalnii Vostok are now being used 

 as fish-processing vessels. 



Soviet whale factoryship Vladivostok. 



In 1965, the Soviet whale factoryships Dal- 

 nii Vostok and Vladivostok were used as fish- 

 processing factoryships for the first time 

 since their delivery in 1962 (from Kiel, West 

 Germany, for a reported US$16 million for 

 each vessel). Both vessels in 1965 processed 

 57,000 metric tons of Alaska pollock into 

 7,500 tons of fish meal and 5,000 tons of fro- 

 zen pollock. In 1966, both will continue to 

 process pollock. When the Soviets bought 

 these two factoryships, they specified that 

 they must be constructed in a manner per- 

 mitting their use as both whaling and fish- 

 processing floating factories. This may in- 

 dicate that the U.S.S.R. was planning to di- 

 versify, if needed, its whaling operations as 

 far back as 1962. It also means that the So- 

 viets will probably de-emphasize Antarctic 

 whaling for the 1966/67 season. The entire 

 Soviet Far Eastern whaling industry present- 

 ly employs about 4,300 persons. 



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ANTARCTIC EXPERIMENTAL 



KRILL FISHERY: 



The scientists of the Soviet Antarctic 

 whaling flotilla Slava have studied the com- 

 mercial use of large stocks of Southern Hem- 

 isphere krill ( Euphausia superba) for several 

 years. Prior to the 1958/59 whaling season, 

 studies were made only on krill found in the 

 stomachs of whiskered whales. The first ex- 

 periments on commercial krill fishing with 

 variable -depth trawls were conducted in 1959 

 by the scientific research ship Ivan Nosenko. 



Kilometers -wide "fields" of krill, i.e., ac- 

 cumulations of large (up to 6 cm. long) Eup - 

 hausiids (the source of food for various ant- 

 arctic animals such as the whiskered whale, 

 seals, fish, and birds) were found at the ocean 

 surface during the Antarctic summer. 



The Soviets believe that up to 5-10 metric 

 tons of large krill, which can be used as feed 

 for farm animals, may be caught in 30-60 

 minutes of sweeping in krill "spots" from 

 diesel-electric whaling ships using industrial 

 pelagic trawls. It is also possible that high- 

 vitamin fat may be obtained from the krill. 

 The equipment available on Soviet whaling 

 ships can successfully be used to process the 

 krill. ( Soviet Antarctic Expedition Informa - 

 tion Bulletin , Vol. II, pp. 124-125, issued by 

 Elsevier Publ. Co., Amsterdam, N, Y., Lon- 

 don, 1964. --Original paper published 199©> 

 Inform . Byull . Sovetsk. Antarict. Eksped ., 

 1955 - 1958 . No. 14.) 



United Kingdom 



LANDING TRENDS 1965: 



Landings of fish (excluding shellfish) dur- 

 ing 1965 in England, Wales, and Scotland to- 

 taled 1.96 billion pounds as compared with 

 landings of about 1.8 billion pounds in 1964. 



Table 1 - Landings of Principal Species in England and Whales, 1964-1965 

 (Does Not Include Scottish Landings) 



Species 



Cod 



Haddock . . 

 Plaice ... 

 Saithe . . . 

 Ocean perch 

 Herring , . . 

 Sprat .... 

 Other fish. 



Total (excluding shellfish) 



1965 



Quantity 



1,000 

 Pounds 



593, 141 



136,675 

 73,940 

 81,898 

 34, 267 

 33,727 

 21,764 



163. 129 



1.138,541 



Value 



i, 



1^000 



21,110 



5,397 



4,926 



1,364 



508 



621 



120 



6.283 



40,329 



1.000 



59, 108 



15,112 



13,793 



3,819 



1,422 



1,739 



336 



17,592 



Source: British Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries, and Food. 



112.921 



1964 



Quantity 



1,000 

 Pounds 



557,496 



135,882 

 78,082 

 72,235 

 37, 375 

 39,425 

 31,948 



162.564 

 1.115.007 



L 



1.000 



19,222 



5,385 



4,698 



1,183 



538 



733 



139 



6.262 



Value 



38, 160 



-DS5 — 



1.000 



53,822 



15,078 



13, 154 



3,312 



1,506 



2,052 



389 



17.535 



106.848 



