. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. ANNUAL RIVER HERRING CATCH BY FOREIGN FLEETS ESTIMATED Jackson Davis For the third year, the USSR and Poland have sent fleets of more than 100 trawlers to fish for mackerel and herring off the Mid- Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Ocean City, Maryland. From in- formation obtained on Coast Guard surveil- lance flights, in cooperation with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (BCF), it has been determined that the number of Soviet vessels has fluctuated between 10 to 110 trawlers, and the sizeof the Polishfleet has averaged
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. ANNUAL RIVER HERRING CATCH BY FOREIGN FLEETS ESTIMATED Jackson Davis For the third year, the USSR and Poland have sent fleets of more than 100 trawlers to fish for mackerel and herring off the Mid- Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Ocean City, Maryland. From in- formation obtained on Coast Guard surveil- lance flights, in cooperation with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (BCF), it has been determined that the number of Soviet vessels has fluctuated between 10 to 110 trawlers, and the sizeof the Polishfleet has averaged about 10 trawlers during 1970. In 1969, the com- bined fleet numbered about 150 vessels; in 1968, about 100. Prior to 1968, the foreign fleet fished north of Maryland, for the most part, and only 10 to 30 vessels worked off the Virginia Capes. Virginia finfishermen have expressed con- cern about the effects of these harvesting activities on the success of their own fishing operations. A Visit to Fleet Under BCF auspices, a 9-man party of Americans, including the author, boarded a Soviet factory ship off the Virginia Capes to talkwith the fleet commander, Zakharov, and his deputies. The commander indicated that the average daily catch of his SRT-class vessels (145-foot side trawlers) was 2 tons of mackerel and 2 tons of herring--a total of 4 tons per vessel per day. He did not state the average daily catch of the larger side trawlers and stern trawlers. About 30% of the herring catch was sea her - ring(Clupea harengus), also called Labrador herring, and the remaining 70% (2800 pounds per vessel per day) was river herring. 1970 Catch Estimate If the average daily catch is multiplied by the number of vessels reported operating, an estimate of the smallest probable catch is obtained. Thus, the 1970 catch of river her- ring by the Soviet fleet probably is not less than 12 million pounds; that of the smaller Polish fleet probably not less than 3 million pounds. Because we do no
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