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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 8 



Mexico (Contd.): 



mission to the Mexican Congress during the 

 next session, fixing Mexico's exclusive fish- 

 ing zone to 12 miles. Mexico now unilateral- 

 ly claims fisheries jurisdiction up to 9 miles 

 off the Mexican coast. (U. S. Embassy, Mex- 

 ico, May 27, 1966.) 



Norway 



SEED OYSTERS EXPORTED 

 TO FRANCE AND DENMARK : 



In the spring of 1966, a shipment of 24 

 tons of seed oysters was exported by a Nor- 

 wegian firm to France. Three charter planes 

 were used to carry the oysters from Vigra 

 near Aalesund to France. The oysters were 

 of the planting type and were carried live in 

 plastic fish boxes. Previously Norway has 

 exported large quantities of planting oysters 

 to Denmark. Natural conditions for oyster 

 breeding in Norway yield a grade of oyster 

 spat that is hardy and adaptable to temper- 

 ature fluctuations. (The Export Council of 

 Norway.) 



Peru 



BANNER YEAR FOR 



FISH MEAL PRODUCTION : 



The 1965/66 season wound up in May as 

 a banner year for fish meal, confounding the 

 earlier predictions of scientists that the an- 

 chovy catch would be small in tonnage and 



Fig, 1 - Using a power block to re -pile a purse -seine net aboard 

 a Peruvian anchovy vessel. 



poor in quality. The 9 -month season pro- 

 duced almost 1,4 million metric tons of fish 

 meal and left the industry with over half a 

 million tons of inventory, more than enough 

 to carry through until fishing resumes in 



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Fig. 2 - Sacks of fish meal curing for export. Meal is stored out- 

 doors because it never rains, 



September, During the first 5 months of 

 1966, the industry produced over 960,000 tons 

 of meal, an extraordinary total far outstrip- 

 ping any comparable period on record, (U,S, 

 Embassy, Lima, July 3, 1966.) 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review, July 1966 p, 87, June 

 1966 p. 82, May 1966 p, 65, April 1966 p. 66, February 1966 

 p, 79, January 1966 p, 90. 



Poland 



NEW CLASS OF STERN FACTORY 

 TRAWLERS TO BE BUILT BY 1967: 



The Gdansk Shipyard has started building a 

 new B-22 class factory stern trawler for Polish 

 fisheries. When designing the new trawler, ex- 

 perience gained in operating the B-15 and B-26 

 trawlers was takeninto account. 



The trawler will fish in distant sub-Arctic 

 fishing grounds of the northwest Atlantic. The 

 stern fishing gear will be adapted to catch at 

 great depths (up to 1,000 meters, 3,280 feet), as 

 well as for pelagic fishing. The fish caught will 

 be processed into frozen fish fillets in blocks, 

 frozen fish in blocks, fish meal, and fish oil. 



The main characteristics of the new B-22 

 class trawler are: 



Length between perpendiculars. , , . 80,0 meters (262.4 feet) 



Breadth 14,5 meters (47,6 feet) 



Depth moulded 9.75 meters (32.0 feet) 



Deadweight capacity 1,500 tons 



Gross registered tonnage 2, 700 tons 



