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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No, 7 



United Kingdom (Contd.): 



5, but with slightly less severe sea state. The 

 vessels were brought together with the help 

 of a new fendering system. Then the fish 

 were transferred in aluminum boxes by means 

 of traditional union purchase rigs. Rate of 

 transfer achieved was 10 metric tons an hour 

 per hoist. 



The advantage of this method of transfer 

 is that the fish are not immersed in the sea. 

 The White Fish Authority pointed out that 

 larger vessels might be able to use this trans- 

 fer system in even worse weather than that 

 encountered during the test. ( The Fishing 

 News , London, May 6, 1966.) 



***** 



FISHING EXHIBITION TO BE 

 HELD IN LONDON IN 1967: 



A British trade periodical plans to present 

 a World Fishing Exhibition in London, June 

 1-7, 1967. The exhibition will be sponsored 

 , - ' . by a number of Brit- 



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WORLD FISHING 



exhibition 



and Conference 



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ish Fishery Associa- 

 tions and will be open 

 only to members of 

 the fishing industry. ■ 

 Exhibitors from many 

 countries will be in- 

 vited to display fish- 

 ing gear, vessel de- 

 signs, marine en- 

 gines, deck machin- 

 ery, electronic navi- 

 gating and fish-find- 

 ing devices, and re- 

 frigerating and proc- 

 essing equipment. 



: OLYMPIA JUNE 1967 A similar exhibi- 



tion was held in Lon- 

 don in 1965. For additional information a- 

 bout the 1967 exhibition write to Comnaercial 

 Exhibitions Ltd., The Tower, 229-24 3 Shep- 

 herds Bush Road, Hammersmith, London, 

 W. 6, England. 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review . September 1965 p. 79. 



Foreign Fishing Off United States 

 Coasts, May 1966 



Off Alaska : SOVIET: Trawling for Pacif- 

 ic ocean perch continued to be the largest So- 



viet fishery off Alaska. Throughout May a 

 fleet of about 90 vessels fished for perch in 

 the Central Gulf of Alaska from Yakutat to 

 outer Portlock Bank east of Kodiak Island. 

 A smaller number of trawlers fished off 

 southeast Alaska (Cross Sound) in late May; 

 by month's end about 35 vessels were fishing. 



At least two factory trawlers resumed the 

 ocean perch fishery in the western Aleutians 

 in late May. The Soviets abandoned this fish- 

 ery in early February of this year. 



A new ocean perch fishing area was dis- 

 covered in the central Bering Sea by Soviet 

 exploratory vessels and at least 1 freezer 

 trawler and 2 factory trawlers were dispatched 

 to the area. Catches averaged about 80,000 

 to 100,000 pounds a day on the factory trawl- 

 ers. 



The Soviet shrimp fishing fleet, centered 

 in the Shumagin Islands area, declined dur- 

 ing May to about 5 medium freezer trawlers 

 serviced intermittently by refrigerated fish 

 transDorts. In April that fleet consisted of 

 12 medium freezer trawlers and 1 refriger- 

 ator vessel. 



The flounder fleet in outer Bristol Bay, 

 which was reported disbanding in late April, 

 discontinued operations in mid-May. Partic- 

 ipating vessels were transferred to the Gulf 

 of Alaska and off the Pacific Northwest coast 

 to fish for other fisheries. 



The 3 king crab factoryships, accompanied 

 by 12 tangle-net handling trawlers, operated 

 throughout the month on the broad Continental 

 Shelf north of the western Alaska Peninsula. 

 These factoryships were first reported in 

 April, although it became evident during 

 boardings that they began operations in early 

 March 1966, one month earlier than usual. 



Soviets report that three whaling fleets 

 were active in the North Pacific in early May. 

 Each fleet consists of a factoryship and 9 ac- 

 companying whale killers. 



JAPANESE: At the end of May about 111 

 Japanese fishing vessels were operating in 

 waters off Alaska. In addition, 11 salmon 

 motherships accompanied by 369 catcher ves- 

 sels (the same number as in 1964 and 1965) 

 were fishing for salmon in the North Pacific 

 between 175° W. longitude and the far west- 

 ern Pacific. Most of the salmon fishing ves- 

 sels were operating well west of the 175° W. 

 "abstention line." 



