UHCLASSIgljSD 

 Men 



June 7, 1948 

 Report No. 4 



purchased at the same time at an extremely low price. At 

 A* Elsx about ninety fishermen within a seven-months period 

 produce a about a million pounds, or within an eight -cor th 

 l^''ffX^^'''^^J\^y^raee of five and one==half tons per man. 

 At orufar - which exports dried sardines, sardine oil, and 

 wet salted kingfish - were caught during this season bv 

 soiiie ^,iiQQ men a weight equivalent to about 8,000 tons" of 

 wou sar-aines, and 300 tons of wet kingfish, or about Eo3 



iin for export » It is presuaied that a like quan- 

 oiLLa nave been sent up-^country and consur-ied locally o 

 to figurs obtained from local sources in Deceiiiber, 

 ji,uUO worth of sardines were dried in Aden. Two 

 sixty miles east of Aden are found abundant sardiros, 

 ■'.Die for the production of sardine oil and the dried 

 ols. The sardines are spread out on the sand, allowed to 

 ary thoroughly in but a few days, and then are exported, 

 mainly as fodder for cattle, and as fertilizer/ The sardine 

 season begins at the end of the southwest monsoon in Sept» 

 ember, and between October and the end of November they a re at 

 their fattest c Throughout the rest of the year, from Januai-y 

 on, they become gradually scarcer. The larger fish, tuna, 

 kingfish, etc., are gutted, split, scored, and well rubbed 

 with salt» These fish are as tusty as anv on the world mar- 

 ket, Aden warehouses regularly held in stock well over one 

 thousand tons of this dried sardine product o 



Tunny, or tuna, between the conths of September to Jan«= 

 uary are at their best, the greatest quantity beinf cau^-ht in 

 October to Decembero In October to December they are caught 

 in depths of sixty to seventy fathoms, while in January to 

 June they are taken in or over luch greater depths « The 

 kingfish 8 caught in shallower waters than the tunny, is very 

 highly prized o They may be caught by hook or by a keddle- 

 neto There is no special season for sharko 



Fishing Gear Used 



Of all the methods used to catch fish in the Gulf of 



the coinmonest is the hook and lineo Used from boats mainly^ 

 oast net3 are the nets most frequently employed^ Waders may 

 wcri: from the beach or from the rocks » casting nets varying 

 in shapas and sizes o The sardine boats cast a lart^er net of 

 a^¥anty-two feet in circumference/ with a mesh of one«half 

 inch bar^ The smallest gill net has a mesh of about 120 rows 

 to the yard; medium-sized nets have about eighty«four rov/s to 

 the yard; and a lar^e saraine nei^ has about fifty-six rows to 

 the yard* 



At Men Colony and Shuqra beach seines of about ninety 

 yards in length, of raesh of one-inch barp about fifteen feet 

 deep are used* The actual net has a long wing down both sides ^ 

 about thirty yards long, and made of twisted palm leaf strips ^ 

 No floats are needed* 



The sardine 



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