UNITED STATES OEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

STEWART L. UDALL, SECRETARY

BUREAU OF O\I\lERCIA,l. FI In RIE' DONALD L . MCKL N4N, DIRECTO

DIVISION OF RESO\.,RCF. OFHI or If. T FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

CLARENCE F. PAUTZKE, COMMISSIONER RALPI 4~ER. CHIEf

COii1 ti1~ :!~ ~I ; ~::;..;; A review of developments and news of the fishery industries

prepared in the BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES.

Joseph Pileggi, Editor

Address correspondence and requests to the: Chief, Branch of Market News, Bureau of Commercial isheries, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington 25 , D. C.

Publication of material from sources outside the Bureau is not an endorsement. The Bureau is not I'esponsible for the accuracy of facts, views, or opinions con t a i ned in material from outside sources.

Although the contents of the pub 1 i c a ti 0 n have not bee n copyrighted and may be reprinted freely. reference to the source is appreciated .

Use of funds for printing this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, May 10, 1960.

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CONTENTS COVER: A representative sample of tagged sea scallops (Placo­

pecten magellanicus) from Maine ' s inshore scallop fishery. These are found at the bottom of estuaries and embayments from the Piscataqua River between Maine and New Hampshire. Concen­trations of commercial importance are limited to the area from Penobscot Bay eastward.

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1 .A Method of Predicting Fluctuations in the Sea Scallop Populations of Maine, by Robert L. Dow 5 .. Accuracy of Net-Weight Determinations for Frozen Glazed Halibut Steaks, by Max Patashruk

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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS: California:

Spiny Lobster Regulations and Shrimp Trawl­ing Quotas Changed

Growth Studies and Abundance of Market Crabs Investigated

Midwater Trawling for Salmon Fingerlings Continued

Pelagic Fish Population Survey Continued Cans--Shipments for Fishery Products , Jan­

uary -June 1962 Central Pacific Fisheries Investigations:

Skipjack Tuna Subpopulation Identification Studies

Fish Farming: Construction of Facilities Research

Food Congress: Interior Department Exhibit at Fifth Inter­

national Food Congress Frozen Fish:

New Mechanized Microwave Oven for Thaw­ing Frozen Fish

Great L akes Fisheries Exploration and Gear Research: Trawl Fishing Investigation of Southern

Lake Michigan Great Lakes Fishery Investigations :

DIstribution of Lake Trout in Western Lake Superior Studied

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TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS (Contd.): Great Lakes Fishery Investigations (Contd'):

Lake Michigan Fish Population Survey Con­tinued

Lake Erie Fish Population Survey Continued Gulf Exploratory Fishery Program:

Northern Gulf of Mexico ExploratIon for Potentially-Valuable Deep - Water SpeCIes

Good Royal-Red Shrimp Catches b,. Research Vessel

Gulf Fishery Investigations: Shrimp Distribution StudIes

Industrial Fisherv Products: Menhaden Oil Stimulates Growth of Ch cks Fish Solubles Stimulate Growth of Chtcks U. S. Fish l\leal and Solubles ProductIOn

and Imports, January-July 1962 FISh :'I.1eal, Oil. and Solubles:

U. S. Production, August 1962 U . S. Production, July 1962 l\Iajor Indicators for S. uppl ugus

1962 IrradiatlOn Preservatlon:

Irradiated Clam leats Tested for Q a Improvement f er Refr gera Ion

l\!ichigan • -atural Lake Trout Reprod CIon Pr

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CONTENT (CONTINUED)

Page TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS (Contd . ):

Navigable Waters: 26 Dumping Illegal

Oceanography: 26 Coast and Geodetic Survey to Participate in

International Indian Ocean Expedition 27 Oceanographic Program Developed by Duke

University Oregon:

27 ,. Effects of Seismic Explosions on Marine Life Probed

Oysters: 28 Long Island Sound Observations on Spawning

and Setting as of August 17 28 Long Island Sound Observations on Spawning

and Setting as of August 27 29 Fungus Parasite That Kills Oysters to be

Studied Shrimp:

29 Research Program Expanded 30 United States Shrimp Supply Indicators, Au-

gust 1962 South Atlantic Exploratory Fishery Program:

30 .. Animal Life Explorations off North Carolina Coast

United States Fisheries: 31 .. Commercial Fishery Landings, January­

July 1962 U. S. Fishing Vessels:

33 .. Documentations Issued and Cancelled, Au­gust 1962

U. S. Foreign Trade: 33 Edible Fishery Products, June 1962 34 Imports of Canned Tuna in Brine Under

Quota Airborne Imports of Fishery Products:

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Wholesale Prices: 35 Edible Fish and Shellfish, August 1962

FOREIGN: International:

International Pacific Halibut Commission: 37 .. Pacific Halibut Fishing in Areas 2 and 1

Ended September 8 International North Pacific Fisheries Com­

mission: 37 .. Fishing Problems Discussed at Interim

Meeting Central American Common Market:

38 Costa Rica Joins Food and Agriculture Organization:

38 Fisheries Discussed at Sixth Regional Con-ference for the Near East

38 Fishing Methods and Gear Seminar in So-viet Union

39 World Meeting on Tuna Biology Urges Ex-pansion of Tuna Research

41 Sixth Regional Conference for Asia and the Far East

Nordic Countries: 41 .. Closer Fisheries Cooperation

UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission:

42 .. Arabian Sea Phase of Indian Ocean Oceano-graphic Expedition Defined

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FOREIGN (Contd.): International (Contd.):

Fish Meal: World Production, June 1962

Marine Oils: Estimated World Production and Foreign

Trade, 1958-62 Transportation:

Selected Ocean Freight Rates for Selected Fishery Products and Byproducts

Africa: Common Market Established by Six Nations

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea: Fiftieth Statutory Meeting Held in Copen­

hagen Australia:

Exporter Recommends New Method of Selling Lobster Tails to United States

Shrimp Fishery Started in Western Australia New Type Underwater Vehicle for Fishery

Research Whale Oil Production Down in 1962

Canada: New Institute of Oceanography

Ceylon: Fisheries Development

Chad: Fishing Industry of Chad

Colombia: Regulations Established on Iss u a n c e of

Shrimp Fishing Permits Cuba:

Japan Exports Fish Meal to Cuba Dahomey:

FAO Fishery Officer Assigned to Dahomey Denmark:

Fish Fillets and Blocks and Fishery Indus­trial Products Exports: May 1962 June 1962

Ecuador: Japanese Fishing Vessel Based in Ecuador

to Fish Tuna and Shrimp Japanese Tuna Vessel Seized

El Salvador: Import Duty on United States Canned Salmon

and Canned Mackerel Unchanged Ethiopia:

Red Sea Fishery Resources not Fully Used France:

French Fishermen Protest Imports of Mo­roccan Frozen Sardines

Japanese Firms Export Frozen Tuna to France

First International" Fish Fair" Held Gabon:

Status of Fisheries, 1961 Ghana:

Soviets Deliver Fishing Vessel to Ghanaian Firm

Republic of Hondurus: Shrimp Exports to United States Decline

Iceland: Fisherie s Trends, Early August 1962

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FOREIGN (Contd.): Japan:

Frozen Tuna Exports to United States and Europe, April-July 1962

Value of Frozen and Canned Tuna Exports in First Half of 1962

Ninth Sale of Canned Tuna in Brine for Ex­port to U . S.

Expansion of Frozen Tuna Exports to United States Under Study

Ex-Vessel Price for Frozen Yellowfin Tuna Drops

Tuna Ex-Vessel Prices at Tokyo Costs for Exporting Frozen Tuna to Europe

from Japan Proper Atlantic Ocean Tuna Fishery and Prices for

Atlantic Frozen Tuna, August 1962 Special Committee Formed to Study Tuna

Problems Tuna Fish-Finder Developed Overseas Tuna Bases Trying to Acquire

More Vessels Revision of Tuna Vessel Fishing Regulations

Planned Tuna Long- Liner Fleet Trends Stern Trawler to Fish for Cod in Northwest

Atlantic Trawling in Northwest Atlantic Expected to

Start Early in October 1962 Stern Trawler to Fish off West Africa

Republic of Korea: Contracts for Loan of $120 Million to Build

Fishing Vessels Morocco:

Canned Fish Pack and Exports, 1961/62 Season

Fishing Limits Extended to 12 Miles N ethe r lands:

Japanese Canned Tuna Pnces , Mid-Septem­ber 1962

Nigeria: Fish Catch from Lake Chad

Norway: Exports of Canned Fish, January I-June 23,

1962 Tuna Catch in 1962 Expected to be Less

Than in 1961 Peru :

Government's New Procedures for Fish Meal Plant Licenses

Portugal: Joint Japanese-Portuguese Tuna Venture

Proposed South Africa Republic:

Pilchard - Maasbanker Fishery, January­June 1962

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South-West Africa: 66. Large Order of Canned Fish Sold to Phil-

ippines Spain:

66 Bilbao Fisheries Trends, Second Quarter 1962

67 Tuna Packers Switch to Canning in Oil Tunisia:

67 Yugoslav-Built Fishing Vessels Delivered to Tunisia

U. S. S. R.: 67 Soviets Build First Tuna Long- Line Vessel 67 Soviets Design Combination Factoryship-

Research Vessel 68 Soviet-Bloc Fishing Activities in North

Atlantic 68 Exploratory Fishing off South Atlantic

Coast 68 Fishing Activities in Gulf of Alaska

FEDERAL ACTIONS: Civil Service Commission:

69. Fishery and Wildlife Biologists Examination Announced

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Food and Drug Administration:

69 .. Objections to Standard of Identity for Can-ned Tuna Disallowed

Department of the Interior: 72 .. Commercial Fisheries Bureau Employee Ap-

pointed Assistant to Interior's Science Adviser

Fish and Wildlife Service: 72 .. Proposed Regulations for Enforcement of

Desist Orders Against Possible Restraint of Trade by Fishery Cooperatives

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries: 72 Shellfish Expert Transferred to Pacific

Coast 73 Eighty-Seventh Congress (Second Session)

FISHERY INDICATORS: 79 Chart 1 - Fishery Landings for Selected States 80 Chart 2 - Landings for Selected Fisheries 81 Chart 3 - Cold-Storage Holdings and Freezings

of Fishery Products 82 Chart 4 - Receipts and Cold-Storage Holdings

of Fishery Products at Principal Distribution Centers

82 Chart 5 - Fish Meal and Oil Production - U. S. and Alaska

83 Chart 6 - Canned Packs of Selected Fishery Products

84 . Chart 7 - U. S. Fishery Products Imports RECENT FISHERY PUBLICATIONS:

85 . Fish and Wildlife Service Publications 88 . Miscellaneous Publications

CANNED FISHERY PRODUCTS - 1961

C. F. S. No. 2862, Canned Fishery Products - 1961 (An Annual Summary), shows that the pack of canned fishery products in the Uniteastates, American Samoa, and P ue r to Rico during 1961 amounted to 33 million standard cases (1 billion pounds ), valued at $424 million to the packers. Compared with 1960, this was a 4-percent decrease in production but an increase of 9 percent in value.

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The 1961 pack for human consumption was 48 million pounds and $41 million higher than in 1960. The gain in both quantity and value was due largely to record packs of tuna and crab meat, and to increased production of canned salmon, mackerel, and oys t ers. The value of two products - -canned salmon and tuna - -accounted for 72 percent of the to ­tal revenue received by packers of canned fishery products.

The packs of Maine and Pacific sardines, shrimp, and animal food were les s t han in the previous year.

Copies of C. F. S. No. 2862 are available free from the Office of Information, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington 25, D . C.