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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 11 



FEDERAL ACTIONS 



Economic Development Administration 



STUDY OF PACIFIC HAKE'S 

 COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITY 

 APPROVED 



The Economic Development Administration 

 (EDA), U. S. Department of Commerce, re- 

 cently approved a $70,000 grant for an eco- 

 nomic feasibility study of a commercial hake 

 fishery off Washington's coast. BCF's Pa- 

 cific Northwest Region will conduct the study. 

 Grays Harbor Regional Planning Commis- 

 sion, Aberdeen, Wash., requested the study. 



A processing plant has been built at Aber- 

 deen, but hake supplied by local fishermen 

 are insufficient for normal operations. 

 Through "on-the-job" training featuring new 

 equipment and techniques, BCF will try to 

 aid the fishermen supply sufficient raw ma- 

 terial to make the industry survive and grow. 



Chartered trawlers will be used in the 

 study to determine: (1) location of high con- 

 centrations of Pacific hake during each stage 

 of fishing season; (2) most productive gear 

 and other fishing techniques to use; (3) prop- 

 er techniques for taking catch from gear; (4) 

 best method for handling catch on board ves- 

 sels and unloading it; (5) most desirable size 

 and use of trawler crews; and (6) commer- 

 cial catch rates and cost of production per 

 ton of hake. (U. S. Department of Commerce, 

 September 28, 1966.) 



Food and Drug Administration 



BLACKFIN PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED 

 IN U. S. STANDARDS FOR CANNED TUNA 



The Food and Drug Administration pub- 

 lished in the Federal Register , Sept. 15, 1966, 

 a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to amend 

 the standard of identity for canned tuna (21 

 CFR37.1)to includeblackfin tuna in the class 

 known as tuna fish. The notice resulted from 

 a petition filed by the National Canners As- 

 sociation, Washington, D. C. 



The petition argued that the blackfin tuna 

 is caught in waters fished for tuna for can- 

 ning; though formerly believed identical with 

 either albacore or bigeye tuna, it is now 

 shown to belong to a separate species not 

 recognized by the standard; it is outwardly 

 distinguishable only briefly after catching; it 

 belongs to the class known as tuna fish both 

 by established usage and taxonomic classifi- 

 cation. 



Department of the Interior 



APPLICATIONS FOR 

 FISHING VESSEL LOANS 



The following applications were received 

 for loans from the U. S. Fisheries Loan Fund 

 to help finance the purchase of fishing vessels: 



James O. Russel, Jr., Star Route, Box 5, 

 Brownsville, Texas 78520, applied for loan 

 to help buy a new 67 -foot steel vessel for all 

 commercial species of shrimp. Published in 

 Federal Register October 8. 



Salvatore and Providenza Curcuru, 33 

 Hodgkins St., Gloucester, Mass. 01930, ap- 

 plied for loan to help buy a used 90 -foot reg- 

 istered length wood vessel for groundfish. 

 Published in Federal Register October 5. 



Frederick N. Wedel, P. O. Box 193, Bodega 

 Bay, Calif. 94923, applied for a loan to help 

 buy a used 40,9 -foot registered length wood 

 vessel for salmon and Dungeness crab. Pub- 

 lished in Federal Register October 5. 



Regulations and procedures governing fish- 

 ery loans have been revised and no longer re- 

 quire an applicant for a new- or used-vessel 

 loan to replace an existing vessel (Public Law 

 89-85; Fisheries Loan Fund Procedures --50 

 CFR Part 250, revised Augu st 11, 1965). 



Note: See Commercial Fisheries Review , October 1966 p. 15. 



