. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 15 FISHERMEN CATCH MANY TUNA OFF WEST AFRICA The tuna catch off West Africa during the 1968 season was expected to total more than 10,000 tons of Atlantic yellowf in and skip- jack. BCF reported that dockside value was expected to bring fishermen about $ million. Interest in the fishing grounds off West Africa was stimulated when 3 tuna boats, transferring operations from the Pacific to the eastern Atlantic during the second half of 1967, reported a catch of 1,500 tons. In mid-June 1968, shortly after the yellow- fin
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 15 FISHERMEN CATCH MANY TUNA OFF WEST AFRICA The tuna catch off West Africa during the 1968 season was expected to total more than 10,000 tons of Atlantic yellowf in and skip- jack. BCF reported that dockside value was expected to bring fishermen about $ million. Interest in the fishing grounds off West Africa was stimulated when 3 tuna boats, transferring operations from the Pacific to the eastern Atlantic during the second half of 1967, reported a catch of 1,500 tons. In mid-June 1968, shortly after the yellow- fin quota for the Pacific was reached, 8 tuna seiners, with carrying capacities of 450 to 1,000 tons, shifted to the eastern Atlantic. Fishing efficiency was increased by off-load- ing catches at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Tema, Ghana, for transshipment to the This enabled the seiners to return promptly to the tuna-rich Gulf of Guinea. Assisted by R/V 'Undaunted' Fishermen were assisted by BCF's re- search vessel Undaunted, which transmitted on-the-spot information about tuna school locations to the fleet. Undaunted is. assigned to BCF's Tropical Atlantic Biolog- ical Laboratory (TABL), Miami, Fla. Much of TABL's program is devoted to gathering and interpreting fishery and ocean- ographic dataontunain the tropical Atlantic. In cooperation with BCF's laboratory at La Jolla, Calif., fishing interests, and for- eign scientists working in Africa, TABL per- sonnel have compiled voluminous data on tuna stocks in the eastern Atlantic. During 1968, TABL prepared "Tuna Purse Seining in West Africa, July-November," a guide for commercial fishermen planning to operate in the eastern Atlantic tuna fishery. It is a summary of information on tuna species, landings, fishing procedures, and favorable catch locations at specific Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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