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Kamenaga went on to Washington, D. C, 

 after the Conference to discuss this matter 

 with U. S. officials. In addition, he discussed 

 on a preliminary basis the renegotiation of 

 the 2 -year Japan-United States king crab 

 agreement which expires this y6ar. ("Nihon 

 Suisan Shimbun," Sept. 23, 1966.) 



Fish Meal 



WORLD PRODUCTION JANUARY -AUGUST 

 1966 IS 11% ABOVE 1965 PERIOD 



World fish meal production in the first 8 

 months of 1966 was up about 11 percent from 

 the same period of 1965, Output in 1966 rose 

 sharply in Chile and Norway, Peru also in- 

 creased production. But output was down sub- 

 stantially in the United States. 



Most of the principal countries producing 

 fish meal submit data monthly to the Interna- 

 tional Association of Fish Meal Manufactur- 

 ers (see table). 



Country 



World Fish Meal Production, Jan. -Aug. 1966 



Canada 



Denmark 



France 



German Fed. Repub, 



Netherlands 



Spain 



Sweden 



United Kingdom . . . 



United States 



Angola 



Iceland 



Norway 



Peru 



So. Atr. (including 

 S.-W. Afr.) ....'. 



Belgium 



Chile 



Morocco 



1966 



Aug, 



1965 



Jan. -Aug. 



1966 



1965 



, (Metric Tons). 



Total 



10.834 

 14.005 



1,100 



7,096 



1/ 



T/ 



~878 



6,526 

 24.647 



1/ 

 23;771 

 49,873 

 246 



27,420 



375 



17,975 



6.500 



9,193 

 14,475 

 1.100 

 6,706 

 488 

 1/ 



~408 



6,406 



38,162 



2.818 



17,505 



43,056 



369 



17,271 



375 



3,703 



1,650 



57,375 



74,830 



8,800 



48,854 



2/1.510 



- 1/ 



27943 



60,556 



120,099 



4/27,843 



"100,221 



327,500 



969.643 



5/234,549 



3,000 



171,122 



16,700 



191. 246 1 163.6851 2. 225.5501 1.984.159 



53,252 



79,921 



8,800 



44.867 



3.863 



3/13.247 



■" 4,890 



54,567 



169,642 



26,561 



85,194 



232,845 



893.022 



250,093 



3.000 



50,845 



9,550 



1/Data not available. 



SyData available only for January -April 1966, 

 3^/Data available only for January-May 1965, 

 4/Data available only for January -July 1966, 

 5^/Re vised. 



Note: At present, Japan does not report fish meal production to 

 the International Association of Fish Meal Manufacturers. 



OECD 



FISHERIES COMMITTEE MEETS 



The Fisheries Committee of the Or- 

 ganization for Economic Cooperation and 

 Development (OECD) held its 15th meeting 

 in Paris, Sept, 28-30, 1966. The Committee 



discussed its continuing work on an econom- 

 ic study of fisheries development in the North 

 Atlantic, It instructed the OECD Secretariat 

 to confine the study to the economic factors 

 involved in rational exploitation of the fish- 

 ery resources of the North Atlantic, and to 

 coordinate the project with similar studies 

 under consideration by other international 

 organizations. 



In other actions, the Committee reviewed 

 reports on services rendered the fishing in- 

 dustry and continued its study of national fish- 

 eries polices. 



The next meeting was set for December 

 5-7, 1966. 



Oceanography 



3 NATIONS CONDUCT RESEARCH 



A joint fishery oceanography expedition of 

 5 research vessels, organized by the USSR, 

 Norway, and United Kingdom, left Murmansk 

 on September 5, 1966, for the Barents Sea. 

 The 2, 000 -mile cruise of several months will 

 include the northeastern Norwegian Sea. Two 

 Soviet vessels are participating: The brand- 

 new "Nansen," and the "Akademik Knipovich," 

 one of the largest oceanographic vessels in 

 the world. The British are supplying one re- 

 search vessel and the Norwegians two. 



The Soviet part of the research is coordi- 

 nated by the Polar Institute of Fisheries and 

 Oceanography (PINRO) of Murmansk, headed 

 by Dr. Arkadii P. Alekseev, The Norwegian 

 part will be conducted by the Bergen Fisher- 

 ies Research Institute, headed by Dr, Gunnar 

 Rollefsen, The distribution of young cod her- 

 ring, ocean perch, and other species will be 

 studied. At the end of the cruises, scientific 

 data will be compared and analyzed in a joint 

 meeting at Bergen. Research in the Barents 

 Sea is needed because heavy fishing has great- 

 ly depleted cod stocks there. Soviet landings 

 of Polar cod in 1965 were reportedly 60 per- 

 cent below previous years. 



This joint research again confirms the 

 good relations in fisheries between the Nor- 

 wegian and Soviet Governments. British par- 

 ticipation probably resulted from contacts 

 during the 1965 visit of a parliamentary fish- 

 ery delegation to the USSR. The Soviets 

 gave considerable publicity to the joint ex- 

 pedition. 



