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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 9 



Brazil (Contd.): 



Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 

 technical experts in fisheries who are now 

 working in Brazil assisting that country in 

 fisheries development. (U.S. Embassy, Rio 

 de Janeiro, July 8 and Ju ly 21, 1966.) 



Note: Copies of a translated version of the Decree are available 

 free from: Branch of Foreign Fisheries, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, U.S. Department of the Interior (Room 8015), Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 20240. 



Canada 



EXPERIMENTS WITH LOBSTER FISHING 

 CONTROLS IN NORTHUMBERLAND STRAIT : 



Canadian lobster fishing in District 8-- 

 where the lobster season will be open from 

 August 10 to October 10--has been selected 

 for an experiment in trap limitation and ves - 

 sel control regulations. The district com- 

 prises that part of Northumberland Strait 

 which touches the shores of Prince County in 

 Prince Edward Island, Kent and Westmore- 

 land Counties in New Brunswick, and part of 

 Cumberland County in Nova Scotia. 



Lobster fishermen in that district will be 

 limited to setting 250 traps per boat during 

 the 1966 season. Before fishing licenses are 

 issued for the district, boat owners must have 

 their boats either licensed or registered. 



When fishing licenses are issued, the Fed- 

 eral Department of Fisheries will provide 

 fishermen with special numbered tags which 

 are to be attached to each lobster trap. It 

 will be the responsibility of the fisherman to 

 place the tags on his traps. 



The Canadian Fisheries Minister stated 

 that these requirements are being introduced 

 as an experiment designed for protection of 

 lobster stocks and to ensure better returns 

 to fishermen. Results achieved in this dis- 

 trict will determine Canadian future policy 

 in this regard. (Canadian Department of 

 Fisheries, Ottawa, May 16, 1966.) 



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YELLOW PERCH PRICE SUPPORT 

 PROGRAM FOR FISHERMEN 



IN LAKE ERIE AREA: 



A program to stabilize prices to Canadian 

 fishermen engaged in the yellow perch fish- 

 ery of Lake Erie was announced July 13, 



1966, by the Canadian Federal Minister of 

 Fisheries. It is proposed that the support 

 program will be operative in tim.e for the 

 heavy fall fishery. Officials of the Canadian 

 Fisheries Price Support Board will work out 

 the details of the program with a small Ad- 

 visory Committee representing both fisher- 

 men and processors, the Minister said. 



Because of wide fluctuations in production 

 from month to month and from year to year, 

 prices to fishermen have varied from a high 

 of 25 cents a pound to a low of 3 cents a pound 

 over the past 5 years. Such fluctuations make 

 it extremely difficult for both fishermen and 

 processors to plan their operations and mer- 

 chandising programs. Annual production of 

 yellow perch ranges from 10 to 20 million 

 pounds a year. 



The major Canadian yellow perch catch 

 comes from Lake Erie and measures to stab- 

 ilize prices in that area will undoubtedly re- 

 sult in stable prices in other producing areas. 

 Most of the production is marketed in the 

 United States in filleted form, although there 

 is a growing market in Canada for fillets and 

 breaded and cooked products. (Canadian De- 

 partment of Fisheries, Ottawa, July 13, 1966.) 



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NEW FRESH -WATER FISHERIES RESEARCH 

 INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED AT WINNIPEG: 



The Fisheries Research Board of Canada 

 is establishing a multidiscipline fresh-water 

 research institute on the campus of the Uni- 

 versity of Manitoba at Winnipeg. 



This institute will be concerned with basic 

 research into the mechanisms and processes 

 of biological production in fresh waters, and 

 studies fundamental to the development of 

 improved means of storage and marketing of 

 fresh-water fishery products. Total staff 

 will expand over the next few years to ap- 

 proximately 150. (Fisheries Research Board 

 of Canada, May 1966. 



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FISH MEAL AND OIL TRENDS,, MAY 1966: 



Anchovy fishing during May was unexpect- 

 edly good, reaching a total of 145,334 metric 

 tons, compared to the 22,064 tons in 1965 and 

 90,571 tons in 1964. This year through May 

 a total of 654,985 tons of anchovy was taken. 



