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COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



Vol. 28, No. 11 



East Germany (Contd.): 



fishing effort, mostly in the Atlantic, of Roma- 

 nia, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia, and the So- 

 viet Union. Except for Yugoslavia, other East 

 European nations coordinate their research and 

 operational plans very closely with the U.S.S.R. 



There are many reasons for the late entry 

 of East Germany in this race to southernfish- 

 ing grounds. Most important is that immedi- 

 ately after the war the East Germans were 

 persuaded by the Soviets to construct fishing 

 vessels for their fleet. A large portion of the 

 initial Soviet high-seas fleet --hundreds of 

 medium side trawlers in the SRT and SRTR 

 classes --were built in East German shipyards. 

 East Germany herself has no more than about 

 50-60 medium trawlers ranging from 260 to 

 940 gross tons. She has only 1 or 2 modern 

 (1964-1965) base ships in addition to 2 older 

 ones (1950 and 1956). 



In the early 1960s, construction of large 

 factory stern trawlers began in the Wismar 

 and Stralsund shipyards. The Wismar-built, 

 3,000-gross-ton Bertold Brecht class was 

 constructed for the East German fishing 

 fleet; the Stralsund 2, 600 -gross -ton Tropik 

 class for the Soviets. By 1966, over 60 Tropiks 

 were delivered to the Soviets and only about 

 15 Bertold Brechts to the domestic fleet. 

 These largely self-sufficient factory trawl- 

 ers, however, make it possible now for East 

 Germany to extend her high-seas fishing op- 

 erations to greater distances. 



Iceland 



REPORTS FISHERY LANDINGS AND 

 HOWUSED, JANUARY-MARCH 1965 and 1966 



Species 



Cod 



Haddock 



Saithe 



Ling 



Wolffish (catfish) . 



Cusk 



Ocean perch . . . 



rlalibut 



herring 



Capelin* 



Shrimp 



Other 



Total 



1966 



Ian. -Mar. 



I 



1965 



73, 249 



8,669 



5,968 



1,520 



3,821 



948 



2,468 



154 



17, 394 



123,742 



721 



1,289 



(Metric Tons) . 



239,943 



80,659 



21,123 



12,007 



2,100 



3,140 



1,145 



4,634 



175 



48, 815 



48,797 



394 



742 



223,731 



Note: Except for herring, which are landed rotmd, all fish are 

 drawn weight. 



How Utilized 



Tan. -Mar. 



1966 1 1965 



Herring and Capelinl/for: 



.... (Metric Tons) .... 



135,814 82,955 



2,919 10,973 



1,452 3,137 



937 546 



Oil and meal. ..•••..,. 



Freezing 



Salting 



Fresh on ice 



Gioundfish^for: 



10,033 

 40,274 

 25,603 

 18,416 



484 



12, 833 

 54, 682 

 34,297 

 19,758 

 17 

 493 





Freezing and filleting • . • . . 



Salting 



Stockfish (dried unsalted) . . . 



Canning ••••.. 



Oil and meal 



Crustaceans for: 



710 

 11 



303 

 91 





Canniaq 



Kome consumption 



3,273 



3,645 



i/ Whole fish. 

 2/Drawn fish. 

 Source: Aeair, lune 1966. 



Italy 



INDUSTRY SEEKS RISE IN 

 DUTY-FREE QUOTA OF FROZEN TUNA 



The tuna industry has asked the govern- 

 ment to begin negotiations immediately to 

 have present restrictions on frozen tuna im- 

 ports liberalized. In 1965, following negotia- 

 tions at Brussels with other EEC nations, 

 Italy was permitted to import from non-EEC 

 countries 14,000 metric tons of frozen tuna 

 duty free, assess an ad valorem duty of 0.5 

 percent for imports between 14,000-40,000 

 metric tons, and 15 percent over 40,000 tons. 



Beginning in 1970, under the Treaty of 

 Rome, Italy will adopt a common external 

 tariff policy. At that time, under the Com- 

 mon Market tariff schedule, she will be per- 

 mitted to import 14,000 tons of tuna dutyfree 

 free- -but must assess an ad valorem duty of 

 35 percent for imports exceeding that amount. 

 That high tariff is expected to seriously hurt 

 the canned tuna industry, which presently im- 

 ports annually about 40,000 tons of tuna, most- 

 ly from Japan. For this reason, the industry 

 seeks to have the 14,000-ton duty-free quota 

 raised to 40,000 tons. ( Nihon Suisan Shim- 

 bun. September 5, 1966.) 



