August 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



73 



Togo (Contd.): 



established. Several German advisors are 

 working with the Service de Peche, and one 

 of the long-awaited German fishing trawlers 

 was finally delivered to Togo in early 1966. 

 Small fishing vessels are now able to anchor 

 in the lee of Togo's new port thus securing 

 protection from the open sea. 



A small Peace Corps inland fisheries pro- 

 ject to alternate raising fish and rice in ponds 

 supplied by dammed rain water progressed 

 well in three locations in the north. Several 

 pond systems were built, dams were im- 

 proved, and both products were successfully 

 harvested on a small scale. A related river 

 fishing project by one volunteer has also reg- 

 istered success in terms of increased catches. 



Construction continued throughout 1965 on 

 Togo's new German-financed deep-water 

 port, a few miles east of Lome. The prin- 

 cipal jetty is nearing completion, and work 

 has begun on the pier and related installations. 

 The port will probably be ready to handle its 

 first ships toward the middle of 1967, several 

 months ahead of schedule. 



Togo's Fish Imports, 1965 | 





1964 



1965 1 



Value 



Qty. 



Value 



Qty. 



Fresh Fish 



US$ 

 1,000 



Metric 

 Tons 

 66.6 

 3,192.9 

 905.2 



US$ 

 1,000 

 l05.4 

 630.2 

 354.7 



Metric 

 Tons 



6$*; 6 



4,096.7- 

 1,002.2 



11.5 

 538.7 

 295.1 



Frozen or chUled fish .... 

 Dry, smoked, dr salted fish. 



Total 



845.3 



4,164.7 



1,094,3 



5,792.5 



Togo imported more fish in 196 5 than in 

 the previous year, and its fish exports dropped 

 from 44.8 tons in 1964 to an insignificant 7.6 

 tons, worth 559,000 CFAfrancs (US$2,282) in 

 1965. Increased local consumption and more 

 clandestine re-exports (principally to Ghana) 

 probably account for both developments. 

 (United States Embassy, Lome, May 17, 1966.) 



Uganda 



FISHERIES AID FROM ISRAEL: 



Between 1962 and 1965 Israel sponsored 

 three courses for fisheries officers. Six 

 Ugandans attended a three -month course in 

 February 1964 and an additional 5 fisheries 

 assistants attended a similar course in June 

 1965, The subjects covered shore and lake 

 fishing, construction and repair-ing of nets, 

 construction of boats, sailing and navigation. 



During their stay in Israel, the students vis- 

 ited fishing centers and artificial fish ponds. 

 (United States Embassy, Kampala, June 29, 

 1966.) 



U. S. S. R. 



FLOUNDER FISHERY OFF KURILE ISLANDS : 



In early June 1966, a Soviet fishing expe- 

 dition began catching flounders off the South 

 Kurile Islands. Soviet Pacific flounder catch- 

 es have decreased markedly during the last 

 three years. This was partially due to 

 poor flounder catches in the eastern Bering 

 Sea and a depletion of stocks off Kamchatka. 



PACIFIC HAKE UTILIZATION: 



The first deliveries of Pacific hake caught 

 by Soviet fishing vessels off the Pacific North- 

 west had begun to arrive in the Siberian 

 mainland in June 1966. Some hake is being 

 sold in fish stores in luzho Sakhalinsk on 

 Sakhalin Island. The Far Eastern Fisheries 

 Administration is exploring new ways of using 

 hake for human consumption and dishes pre- 

 pared from Pacific hake were tested. In- 

 cluded were hake soup, hake cutlets, hake 

 fillets in tomato sauce, fried hake with mar- 

 inated sauce, hake loaf, and others. 



5|s * * ;]; * 



DELIVERIES OF HERRING 



TO JAPANESE ON THE HIGH SEAS : 



The Hokkaido Island Federation of Fish- 

 ery Unions has made a contract with the 

 Soviet Far Eastern Foreign Trade Office 

 (DALINTORG) for the delivery of 5,000 metric 

 tons of round herring to two Japanese herring 

 motherships operating in the northern sea of 

 Okhotsk. Despite occasional difficulties be- 

 tween the Japanese and Soviet fishermen, the 

 relations between the Soviets and Japanese 

 are taking a turn for the better. Increasing 

 fishery trade between Soviet Far Eastern Re- 

 gions and Japan's Northern Provinces plays a 

 large role in this rapprochement. Ishkov's 

 visit to Tokyo, which will deal mainly with (1) 

 the problems of insuring safe Japanese opera- 

 tions near the Soviet coasts and (2) technical 

 cooperation, presumably will further improve 

 the U.S.S.R. -Japanese fishery relations. 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , May 1966, p. 55. 

 ***** 



