August 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



69 



Poland (Contd.): 



Capacity of reefer holds 1, 530 cubic meteis 



(54, 025 cubic feet) 



Capacity of fish meal holds 435 cubic meters 



(17,360 cubic feet) 



Capacity of oil tanks 60 cubic meteis 



(2, 119 cubic feet) 



Endurance 90 days 



Main engine output 2,500 hp. 



Speed (at trials) 13.8 knots 



Crew 103 persons 



The vessel's propulsion system will com- 

 prise main engine driving a controllable-pitch 

 propeller through reduction gear. Two gener- 

 ators will be coupled to the transmission gear. 

 Apartfrom these, in the engineroom there will 

 be two separate generating sets. 



The trawler will have one wheelhouse for 

 the conduct of both navigational and fishing 

 operations. Remote control of the control- 

 lable-pitch propeller and trawl winch from 

 the wheelhouse will be provided. 



The electric trawl winch will have a pulling 

 capacity of 12.5 tons at a rope -heaving speed 

 of 110 meters or 361 feet per minute. The 

 operations connected with hoisting the cod 

 end on deck will be mechanized to a large 

 extent. 



The processing and freezing capacity will 

 be 70 metric tons per day. 



The mechanized fish-filleting lines will 

 include: a large cod-processing line, a small 

 cod-processing line, and an ocean perch or 

 redfish-processing line. 



Frozen products will be stored in holds 

 at a temperature of 25°-C. (-13° F.), in holds 

 situated on both sides of the engineroom. 



The fish-meal plant's capacity will be 35 

 metric tons per day. In special boilers, tech- 

 nical or m^edicinal liver oils will be manu- 

 factured from cod livers. 



The prototype unit in the series of the new 

 factory trawlers will be handed over to Pol- 

 ish owners in 1967. (Polish Maritime News.) 



FISHERIES ATTACHE IN EAST BERLIN: 

 The former Director of the Gdynia Sea 

 Fisheries Institute is scheduled to become 

 Polish Fisheries Attache in East Berlin. He 

 will be replaced by a technologist who was 



formerly a professor in the Technological 

 Division of the Fisheries Department of the 

 Higher Agricultural School. The establish- 

 ment of a fisheries attache position in East 

 Germany is apparently recent and was made 

 in connection with the 1962 Tripartite Agree- 

 ment on Fisheries Cooperation concluded 

 between the U.S.S.R,, Poland, and East Ger- 

 many (Bulgaria acceded in 1964, Rumania in 

 1966). 



The Agreement, administered by a Joint 

 Mixed Commission, stipulates a close col- 

 laboration between the signatory powers in 

 fishery research, fisheries technology, and 

 development of joint high-seas operations. 

 The Commission also forecasts fish stocks 

 in the Northwest Atlantic (ICNAF) and co- 

 ordinates fishery research there. In addi- 

 tion to a fisheries attache in East Berlin, 

 Poland has a similar position in Moscow, 

 U.S.S.R., and Accra, Ghana. (U.S. Embassy, 

 Copenhagen, June 20, 1966, and other sources.): 



Portugal 



TUNA FISHERY DEVELOPMENT 

 PLANS FOR CAPE VERDE ISLANDS: 



To promote Cape Verde Island fisheries, 

 especially tuna fisheries, the Portuguese 

 Grovernment announced a contract with the 

 Portuguese firm which is expanding its cold- 

 storage facilities at Sao Vincente. In essence, 

 the Portuguese Ministry of Overseas agreed 

 to provide the firm with about US$1 million 

 to build modern port facilities for use by the 

 Cape Verde fishing industry. 



Portugal had previously announced that 

 West Germany had agreed to (1) provide two 

 technicians to make a 6 -months tuna survey 

 off the Cape Verde Islands, and (2) help Por- 

 tugal transform a vessel into a modern live- 

 bait tuna -fishing vessel . 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , July 1966 p. 89. 



Saint Pierre-Et. Miquelon 



POLISH VESSELS LAND 



FROZEN PACKED FISH AT SAINT PIERRE: 



Polish fishing vessels use the port of 

 Saint Pierre, a French possession south of 

 Newfoundland, to transship their frozen pack- 



