Title: Commercial fisheries review Identifier: commercialfis11101949unit Year: 1946 (1940s) Authors: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries Subjects: Fisheries; Fish trade Publisher: [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt. Print. Off. ] Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: October 1949 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES Ri^/IEW 53 suggested a plan by which they would obtain larger quantities of olive oil from Spain in exchange for increased exports of Norwegian dried fish, because they have decided that next year they will pack their sardines in olive oil» â M- â¢Â«â * « -M- POLLOCK FISHERY; Pollock purse seiners completed their season off Griptaren, Norway, with catches doubled over last year, due to the use of echo sounders in locating the schools of pollocko Experiments with pollock purse seines and the Danish floating trawl off of West Greenland have begun, according to the July 21 issue of Fiskaren. TUNA FISHERY: Two large tuna purse seines have been used in Lovoyfjord with varying results o One took 28 large bluefin in one haul while the other took only 4 and had 18 tears in the seine. It is yet too early to say whether the large expensive seines are a success, but their operation is being observed with inter- est. Peru

Text Appearing After Image: TYPICAL COMMERCIAL FISHING CRAFT (bALSAs) USED BY FISHERMEN (mostly Indians) of lake titicaca in peru (the highest navigable LAKE IN THE WORLd) OPEN TO COMMERCIAL FISHING THE YEAR ROUND. THE BALSAS ARE MADE OF TOTORA. FISHING INDUSTRY, 1948: The fishing in- dustry of Peru contin- ued to show a substan- tial production in 1948, although export ship- ments declined slightly, according to a recent American Consular report. For the period Jan- uary-November 1948, ex- ports of canned fishâ mainly solid packed boâ nito and tunaâ^totaled 3,423 metric tons, val- ued at approximately $1,750,000, compared with 4,618 tons, valued at $2,294,000 in 1947. There were 28 fish-can- ning plants in oper- ation during 1948. Exported for the first time in late 1948 were 250 tons of frozen tuna and 414 tons of frozen swordfish, with a total value of $132,000o ^^

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