COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 11 



Slight Rise in Can Shipments for 

 Fishery Products, January-July 1966 



In January-July, 1,800,821 

 base boxes of steel and alu- 

 minum were used to make 

 cans shipped to fish and shell - 

 fish canning plants. This 

 compares with 1,756,091 

 base boxes used during the sam e period in 1965. 



Note: Statistics cover all commercial and captive plants known 

 to be producing metal cans. A "base box" is an area of 31, 360 

 square inches, equivalent to 112 sheets 14" x 20" size. Tonnage 

 figures for steel (tinplate) cans are derived by using factor 23.7 

 base boxes per short ton of steel. 



Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 



Canned Fish Purchases Planned by 

 Defense Supply Agency 



A list of planned procurements of canned 

 meat, poultry, and fishery products for fiscal 

 1967 (July 1, 1966-June 30, 1967) 

 was published recently by the 

 Defense Supply Agency, De- 

 fense Personnel Support Cen- 

 ter (DPSC), Philadelphia, Pa. 

 The fishery products included canned salm- 

 on and tuna. 



According to the forecast, DPSC will pur- 

 chase 3,889,200 cans of red or sockeye salm- 

 on (No. 1 tall cans) during fiscal 1967. An- 

 ticipated purchases of canned tuna are: 

 5,090,400 cans (12.5/ 13-oz.) and 5,560,800 

 cans (6.5/7-oz.). 



Inventions 



METHOD FOR RAISING BASS 

 AND FROGS PATENTED 



Recently patented was a new method of 

 fertilizing pond water with organic matter 

 to increase diatomes and bacteria- -and in- 

 duce growth of daphnia and midges --so that 

 5 to 50 times more fish may be produced 

 per acre per year than by any other method. 

 (U. S. Patent No. 3,158,135 issued Howard J. 

 Kimmerle, 5602 Long Beach Blvd., Long 

 Beach, Calif.) 



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SUBMERGIBLE FLOATING 

 BAIT TANK PATENTED 



A submergible floating bait tank provides 

 small -boat fishermen better means of keep- 

 ing live bait. The inventor claims the main 

 advantages of this tank over existing designs 

 are that it can be towed faster than 20 knots 

 to the fishing grounds. It travels submerged 

 below surface turbulence, protecting and re- 

 vitalizing the bait, and it floats handily near 

 the gunwale during fishing. It is a stream- 

 lined shell of plastic with foam flotation 



Submergible floating bait tank. 



blocks. Perforations provide proper water 

 circulation, certain perforations being cov- 

 ered by panels during speed runs. It is said 

 to be easy and cheap to make. (U. S. Patent 

 No. 3,036,400 issued William B. Anderson, 

 2089 Orange Ave., Costa Mesa, Calif.) 



Transportation 



SEC. UDALL SUPPORTS RAILWAY 

 EXPRESS PETITION TO ICC 

 TO REMOVE RULE 



The Railway Express Agency (REA) has 

 petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion (ICC) to remove a rail-haul restriction 

 from its many motor carrier certificates. 

 These ICC certificates authorize REA to op- 

 erate trucks over the highways beyond de- 

 livery limits --but they specify that these 

 shipments must be immediately preceded or 

 followed by rail removal. 



Since 1940, there has been a reduction of 

 passenger train service of the railroads that 

 handle express traffic. As a result, REA has 

 had to obtain motor carrier operating author- 

 ity in order to continue nationwide service. 

 Passenger train service today is such that 



