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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 8 



United Kingdom (Contd.): 



Table 1 - British Frozen Processed White Fish Disposition, 1 







1953-1965 







Home Market 



Exportsl/ 1 



Total 



Bulk or 



Con- 





Bulk or 



Con- 1 



Year 



Home 



Int'l 



sumer 



Total 



Int'l 



sumer i 





Market 



Packs 



Packs 



Exports 



Packs 



Packs 





, , , , Hnna ' 



ons). ..---- 1 



1965 



82,000 



44,923 



3:?, 877 



15,970 



9,321 



6,649 



1964 



80,053 



42, 660 



37, 393 



11,442 



7,293 



4,149 



1963 



73,901 



39, 153 



34,748 



11,388 



7,385 



4,003 



1962 



63, 186 



34,809 



28, 377 



8,773 



5,872 



2,901 



1961 



62, 428 



33,557 



28,871 



8,204 



6,118 



2,086 



1960 



57,391 



30,409 



26,982 



8,475 



6,375 



2,100 



1959 



41,341 



20,588 



20, 753 



9,591 



7,545 



2,046 



1958 



35,131 



19,919 



15,212 



12,030 



10, 453 



1,577 



1957 



30,336 



18, 485 



11,851 



7,398 



6,024 



1,374 



1956 



32,527 



2/ 



11 



7,567 



y 



y 



1955 



22,914 



y 



y 



8,834 



y 



y 



1954 



17, 320 



11 



y 



8,008 



y 



y 



1953 



10, 634 



2/ 



y 



3,410 



y 



y 



l/Inc 



udes small 



amount c 



f ship's stores and shipments for Britjshi 



Go 



remment installatioi 



OS abroad* 





2/Brea 



kdown not available 







Spurce 



: British White Fish 



Authority . 





WARP-LOAD METER FOR 

 FISHING VESSELS DEVELOPED : 



A warp-load meter for measuring strain 

 or tension in seine-net warps has been de- 

 veloped by the White Fish Authority of 

 Great Britain. Its purpose is to show skip- 

 pers at a glance the tension in the warp and 

 thus let them know at once when a net has 

 hung up. This enables the skipper to take 

 immediate steps to reduce the damage to 

 gear. 



A version of the warp-load meter proved 

 useful on trawlers and was developed for 

 purse-seiners to make it less costly for 

 skippers to fish new grounds where nets 

 could be lost or badly damaged on obstruc- 

 tions which have not been accurately loca- 

 ted. ( Trade News , April-May 1966, Cana- 

 dian Department of Fisheries.) 



Table 2 - British Frozen Processed White Fish Supply Situation, 1963- 



1965 





Year 



Domestic Production 



Imports 



Fish Used 



Production 





Bulk or 







Bulk or 







In 



Total 



Institutional 



Consumer 



Total 



Institutional 



Consumer 





Production 



Production 



Packs 



Packs 



Imports 



Packs 



Packs 





... . ; . ; . . HriTin Tons^ . 1 



1965 



153,962 



72,556 



34, 135 



38,421 



31,222 



23,640 



7,582 



1964 



136,408 



1/62,601 



1/30,054 



1/32,547 



23,439 



14,969 



8,470 



1963 



129,000 



58,062 



27,445 



30,617 



18,748 



10,451 



8,297 



1962 



128, 442 



57,799 



33,763 



24,036 



20,314 



11,774 



8,540 



1961 



127,020 



56, 157 



29,996 



26,161 



20,445 



13,551 



6,894 



1960 



116,500 



52,417 



29,930 



22,487 



16, 187 



8,233 



7,954 



1959 



98, 102 



43,292 



25,249 



18,043 



9,182 



3,348 



5,834 



1958 



94,037 



42,747 



28,751 



13,996 



5, 169 



1,944 



3,225 



1957 



81,087 



37,119 



25,204 



11,915 



3,685 



2,063 



1,622 



1956 



78, 309 



36,629 



2/ 



y 



3,154 



2/ 



y 



1955 



67, 655 



31,543 



y 



2/ 



2,222 



2/ 



y 



1954 



54,612 



25,929 



y 



2/ 



1,638 



y 



11 



1953 



26,910 



13,007 



.21 



2/ 



3/ 



3/ 



3/ 



1/Revised. 











2/Breakdown not available. 











3/Included in production data. 











Source: British White Fish Authority. 











A sharp increase was reported in 1965 

 British production of frozen processed white- 

 fish products, as British firms built up freez- 

 er trawler fleets and expanded distribution 

 facilities for frozen products. Exports in- 

 creased in 1965, but they were still only about 

 half the volume of imports. One indication of 

 the change in British marketing methods is 

 that British output of consumer packs of froz- 

 en white fish has exceeded production of bulk 

 packs since 1963. 



British stocks of frozen processed white 

 fish on January 1, 1965, totaled 16,977 long 

 tons. Closing stocks on December 31, 1965, 

 were 27,161 tons. 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review . October 1965 p. 98. 



:^ 5j: sj: sj: ^ 



Foreign Fishing Off United States 

 Coasts, June 1966 



IN NORTHWEST ATLANTIC: 



Soviet : The number of Soviet fishing ves- 

 sels on Georges Bank in the Northwest At- 

 lantic increased considerably during June 

 from over 100 vessels early in the month to 

 an estimated 150 by month's end. 



A total of 161 vessels (exclusive of dupli- 

 cation) was sighted during the month and iden- 

 tified as 60 factory stern trawlers, 9 freezer 

 stern trawlers, 24 medium refrigerated side 

 trawlers, 53 medium side trawlers, 1 large 



