. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 64 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 16. No. 10 this season was 17,611,088 fish as compared to 7,700,176 fish for the 1953 season when only three fleets operated. The fleets this year consisted of 160 catchers and 34 survey vessels. No information is available as to the respective quantities which were canned, salted, and frozen. In addition, the coastal fleets based at Nemuro and operating in the waters east of the Kuriles closed their season on August 5 and report- ed a catch of 25,420,000 pounds of fish as compared to 20,920,000povmds in
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 64 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 16. No. 10 this season was 17,611,088 fish as compared to 7,700,176 fish for the 1953 season when only three fleets operated. The fleets this year consisted of 160 catchers and 34 survey vessels. No information is available as to the respective quantities which were canned, salted, and frozen. In addition, the coastal fleets based at Nemuro and operating in the waters east of the Kuriles closed their season on August 5 and report- ed a catch of 25,420,000 pounds of fish as compared to 20,920,000povmds in 1953. 1954 Catch of North Pacific Salmon Fleets by Species Species Number of Fish Sockeye 3,542,301 Chum 8,780,355 Pink 4,590,651 Other 697,781 Total 17,611,088 ***** LARGE TUNA CATCHES IN TASMAN SEA OFF AUSTRALIA: Japanese tuna- long-liners, fishing off Australia's eastern coast, have been getting large catches, including albacore, taken in theTas- man Sea midway between Australia and New Zealand. This was told by a visiting executive of a United States canning company. The visitor identified from photographs the Japanese vessels recently sighted off northwest Aus- tralia. He said they were modern long liners capable of up to 18 knots, according to the June 1954 Fisheries Newsletter, an Australian trade magazine. Within the past year the Japa- nese have extended their tuna fish- ing in the Pacific east to the Gilbert Islands, south to the Tasman Sea, and west a- round northern Australia into the Indian Ocean. Long lining is the method used mainly. The Japanese work their boats in pairs, using one to haul and the other to bait. They relay the lines about every 10 to 12 hours, and work 24 hours a day. BRISTOL BAY CRAB MEAT PRODUCTION, 1954; The Japanese crab fishing expedition to Bristol Bay terminated activities on Jvily 10 and total production a- mounted to 59,850 cases of crab meat from a catch of 1,060,109 crabs, a July 30 U. S. Embassy dispatch from Tokyo reports. In 1953 t
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