Sim 



June 1948 



Report MOo 4 2 



j^rounds seem to be off the harbors of Bir itllg Mukalla 

 Shuqra, Al Hisi» and the Mahra C-oasto 



MsherBien and Employment 



ecause there is no organized fishing industry it is 

 impossible to determine the number of f isheriaen 

 iieir trade o The wares they receive depends upon 

 w-o amount of fish they catch and personally market, for 

 most businesses are smalls individually owned and operated 

 enterprises s operating, upon the mere subsistence level c 

 They may labor from sun-up until sundown » and their rewfard 

 is predicated upon their individual abilities and lucko 

 There are, however s some small dhows which will carry a 

 crew of eight to ten men^ but th- has been no tabulations 

 compiled in this area of wages, numbers of workers » or work- 

 ing conditions s for, \ ith the exceptions of the few shipmeni:.s 

 to India and Ceylon, tils is primitive enterprise.- 



gishing Vessels 



The fringe of the coastal waters are mainly exploited 

 fron^ *-.-Sv8 one-to-five man canoes, of twelve to twenty-five 

 feet „ length o Some of the larger canoes may reach thirty- 

 five feet overall , with a crev/ of eir,ht or nine uenc Kext 

 in slze-9 after the larger, planked canoe, is the small dhow, 

 wh^ch iTsay have a complement of tv;elve fishermen, but these 

 are relatively few in number. There are no native-owned 

 Dowerod fishing craft o Recently the British Government has 

 based in Aden a small power craft ca|)able of carrying ice in 

 Us forward hatch, for experimental and research projects 

 urder the direction of the recently appointed i^den Governmonw 



gg cfficero But at the present time theee are in-- 

 ^- -lent harbor facilities, svich as docking, loading, and 



■s; services, to have warranted power and refrigerated 

 c along the southern Arabian coasts 



bpecies of Fish 



Little is known about the many different classes of ^ 

 fish cauKht just off-shore „ and the local names of one cxasa 

 of fish rr.ay be different in th« several areas. There appear 

 to be at least two species cf sardine; thu kinr.fish ibolisveo 

 to be the scoraberomo"ris ) ; and, besides several species oi 

 shark, species" of mackerel, snappers, rock fish, and three 

 species of tuna - one identified as the bluefin. The dominaiit 

 specie of sardine seems to be the dussumeria ; the small mack- 

 erel is probably scomber microlepidotus; ana \.ho snapper xias 

 been identified as epiniphelus tauvlnac 



v/irter season is found t,he best fishing « and 

 the sardines bee one very numerous along the 

 coast -r-„ viun. At the heijjiht of the season sardines are 

 so plentTfal in the eastern coastal villages that they can be 

 purchased at thirty for a penny. Tuna, much larger, may be 



purchased 



