November 1966 



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Soviet Union (Contd.): 



sions. TINRO is the Pacific Scientific Insti- 

 tute for Fisheries and Oceanography. From 

 about February 1966, the Adler studied fishery 

 resources and their potential off U. S. and Mex- 

 ican Pacific coasts. Crisscrossing the east- 

 ern Pacific between Vancouver, B.C., and Baja 

 California, she used the former as a port of 

 call for supplies until the Canadian Govern- 

 ment enforced existing regulations prohibiting 

 a foreign vessel with fishing gear aboard from 

 entering her ports except in emergencies. 



Early in 1966, thelskatel' found large an- 

 chovy resources off the Mexican andU. S. 

 coasts. She then went on a 2 -month expedition 

 to the Aleutian Islands, where she explored for 

 Pacific ocean perch stocks and studied the bio- 

 logy of Alaska pollock and sablefish. 



Leaving Vladivostok when the 2 TINRO 

 vessels returned were the Akademik Berg, 

 flagship of the Pacific fishery research fleet, 

 a recently built large stern freezer trawler. 

 Her destination was the central Bering Sea to 

 study deep-water stocks of halibut and sable - 

 fish. She will trawl for those species at 400- 

 1,500 meters (1,200-4,500 feet). A second 

 vessel, the Seskar, replaced the Iskatel' in 

 searching for ocean perch, sablefish, and 

 halibut in an unspecified area off the U. S. 

 Alaskan coast. 



STUDIES PACIFIC SAURY 



During February-October 1965, the re- 

 search vessel Ogon of the Pacific Scientific 

 Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography 

 (TINRO) studied the distribution of saury 

 stocks off the Pacific Northwest. No com- 

 mercial-size stocks were observed during 

 June -July. But from August to October, the 

 saury occupied a 13,000-square-mile area 

 about 50-70 miles off U. S. coasts. Some- 

 times they stretched to a maximum length of 

 450 miles, from northern Washington to Eu- 

 reka in northern California, or between 41° 

 and 48° N. latitude --and to a maximum width 

 of 150 miles. The distribution was irregular; 

 most dense concentrations were noted be- 

 tween 42°18i and 44°22' N. latitude or off 

 southern Oregon, where the size of fish av- 

 eraged 26 to 30 cm. (10 to 11 inches) and 

 weighed 100 grams (3.53 lbs.) each. North 

 of that area, saury concentrations were less 

 dense; south of the area, the size was much 

 smaller (18-22 cm. or 7-9 inches). 



According to Soviet scientists, saury as- 

 semble off the Pacific Northwest to feed and 

 spawn in August, and probably remain until 

 November. (Rybnoe Kho ziaistvo, No. 7, 1966, 

 pp. 20-21.) 



The TINRO fishery research vessel Krym 

 left Vladivostok in mid-September 1966 on a 

 3-month cruise. Her scientists will study the 

 biology of the Pacific saury during their win- 

 ter migrations. 



DEVELOPS NEW OCEAN PERCH FISHERY 



In August, the Soviet Far Eastern Fisher- 

 eries Administration began to fish for Pacific 

 ocean perch off the North Kuril Islands (south 

 of Paramushir Island). This fishery is still 

 in an experimental stage and only 1 or 2 Sak- 

 halin large stern freezer trawlers are fish- 

 ing there. Average daily catches run about 

 50 metric tons; the highest daily catch ex- 

 ceeded 70 tons. Other vessels will probably 

 be sent to the area. Because the size of the 

 resource is not known, it is not known how 

 many vessels it will support. 



East Germany 



EXPANDS HER FISHERIES 



In mid-September, the factory stern trawl- 

 er RO S 312 - Bodo Uhse which had been oper- 

 ating on Georges Bank was joined by another 

 large stern trawler. ( Ostsee - Zeitung. August 

 31, 1966.) This is the first time since 1962 

 that East Germans have fished on Georges 

 Bank. In 1962, 3 large factory trawlers were 

 sighted in September-December, and 10 me- 

 dium trawlers in June. East Germany's ICNAF 

 fishery is traditionally conducted south of 

 Greenland, in the Labrador Sea, and off New- 

 foundland. Along with their advance to the 

 south in the Northwest Atlantic, they began to 

 fish off South-West Africa in the eastern At- 

 lantic. One factory trawler, ROS 311 - Rudolf 

 Leonhard was reported fishing in Walvis Bay 

 in early September 1966. At the same time, 

 the research vessel Ernst Haeckl was con- 

 ducting studies in the South Atlantic. 



East Germany is the last East European 

 nation to expand her traditional post -World 

 War II fishing grounds. Commercial Fisheries 



Review has reported the previous expansion of 



