September 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



53 



French Guiana (Contd. 



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Fig. 4 - Steel and wooden trawlers at the ice loader located on the deck pic- 

 tured in figure 3. 



Fig. 5 - For its shrimp plant, one of the two firms mentioned m the article had 

 to build a complete village, plant, machine shop, ice plant, net loft, groc- 

 ery store, restaurant and bar, and houses. These houses are for plant officials 

 and vessel captains. 



Fig, 6 - Sea bobs are caught in the Cayenne River in Chinese shrimp nets. 

 Raft is a net tender. Trap stakes can be seen in left background. 



Fig. 7 - Shrimp and fish freezing plant of a government-sponsored cooperative 

 at Cayenne, French Guayane. It freezes sea bobs heads on for export to France. 



A French company, which had begun to ex- 

 port the shrimp catch of 3 trawlers to France 

 in 1965, went bankrupt in November 1965, 

 leaving only 2 firms operating in French 

 Guiana. (U.S. Consul, Martinique, May 27, 

 1966.) ( 



Ghana 



FISHERIES AID FROM 

 SPAIN AND NORWAY: 



After the coup of February 24, 1966, the 

 new Government of Ghana ordered the depar- 

 ture of a number of Soviet technicians, among 

 them fishery experts, who were in Ghana 

 under various Soviet assistance programs. 

 Since that time Ghana has sought help from 

 other countries. 



A three -member mission representing the 

 Norwegian Agency for International Develop- 

 ment arrived in Accra on June 7. The chair- 

 man of the mission said that the purpose of 

 the visit was to discuss technical assistance 

 to the Ghanaian fishing industry. A group of 

 11 Norwegian fishing experts arrived in Ac- 

 cra in late June to fill an 18 -month contract 

 with the state -owned Ghana Fishing Corpo- 

 ration. The fishing technicians will help to 

 man the Fishing Corporation's vessels, some 

 of which have been idle as a result of the de- 

 parture of Soviet crews shortly after the 

 coup of February 24. 



Twelve Spanish fishing technicians are 

 expected to arrive in Ghana during July to 

 look into the possibility of Spanish assistance 

 in operating fishing vessels formerly manned 

 by Soviet crews. The vessels have been an- 



