October 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



43 



Fig. 1 - Freezer stern trawler built in Vigo, Spain, and put into 

 service in 1963. 



lilts 



Fig. 2 - Freezer stem trawler built in 1965 for fishing shellfish. It 

 is 158 gross registered tons. 



Fig. 3 - Freezer stem trawler built in 1964 designed for fishing 

 shellfish and finfish. It is 929 gross registered tons. 



Distribution of Spanish Fishing Fleet by Tonnage Class, 

 December 31, 1965 



Tonnage Class 



No. of 

 Vessels 



Total Gross 

 Registered Tons 



Long-range fleet: 



66 



188 



- 



Over 500 tons 



250-500 tons 



Total 250 tons and over. . . 



254 



135,434 



150-250 tons 



614 

 541 



- 



100-150 tons 



Total 100-250 tons 



1,155 



182.237 



Total long-range fleet . , , 



1,409 



317,671 



Short-range fleet: 



1,048 

 1,417 



- 



50-100 tons 



20-50 tons 



Total short-range fleet . . . 



2,465 



124, 754 



Grand ToUl Fleet 



3,874 



442,425 



the total gross tonnage of the long-range 

 Spanish fishing fleet. Under the Law for 

 Renovation of the Fishing Fleet, the Spanish 

 Government provided credits during 1961- 

 1965 of $78 million for building 383 new ves- 

 sels. During 1965, 173 of those vessels put 

 to sea. (U. S. Consul, Bilbao.) 



United Kingdom 



BUYS LARGE FREEZER 



STERN TRAWLERS FROM POLAND 



Two Hull trawler companies have con- 

 tracted with Centromor-- Poland's export 

 agent for fishing and merchant vessels --for 

 delivery of 4 large freezer stern trawlers. 

 The 208 -foot trawlers are the first such ves- 

 sels ordered in non-British Shipyards and 

 brings to 10 the stern trawlers on order by 

 British fishing companies in British and non- 

 British yards. The reasons for using Polish 

 shipyards at Gdynia are low and fixed prices 

 and guaranteed delivery dates (mid-1968). 



The trawlers are the B-28 type, with crew 

 of 28, an endurance of 55 days, daily fish- 

 freezing capacity of 30 metric tons, and stor- 

 age holds with capacity of 350 tons. The con- 

 tracted price was not reported. (Fishing 

 News .) French companies also ordered an 

 unspecified number of B-28 trawlers from 

 the same Polish shipyards. 



Yugoslavia 



ENTERS ATLANTIC TUNA FISHERY 



The first Yugoslav high-seas tuna clipper, 

 Jugoatlantik - I , arrived at Abidjan, Ivory 

 Coast, August 9, after her maiden voyage near 

 Annobon Island (off Gabon). She had 50 tons 

 of yellowfin and skipjack. Built at Pula Ship- 

 yards in Yugoslavia, she will be joined by 2 

 sisterships off West Africa. 



Vessels of the Jugoatlantik-class are 47 

 meters (153 feet) long and 9.5 meters (30 

 feet) wide. They are equipped with 1,100 by 

 117 meter (3,608 by 383 feet) purse seines, 

 powerblock and hydraulic winch, and 15 -ton 

 diesel-powered steel hull seine boat. The 5- 

 hold capacity is 425 metric tons. 



