. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Volo 16, No. 11 CANNERY Table 6 - Fish Received by the Cannery by Months Species Yellowfin, gutted Yellowfin, round Albacore, round Big-eyed, gutted Skipjack, round Totals February | March | April | Totals 156,711 42,599 274 2,483 365 202,432 (Pounds) The cajinery is located at Atu'u, across Pago Pago Bay from the largest town and seat of the Government of American Samoa. It is a well-equipped modern plant, with two packing lines and a capacity estimated at between 20 and 25 tons of tuna or 1,000 cases of the fin
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Volo 16, No. 11 CANNERY Table 6 - Fish Received by the Cannery by Months Species Yellowfin, gutted Yellowfin, round Albacore, round Big-eyed, gutted Skipjack, round Totals February | March | April | Totals 156,711 42,599 274 2,483 365 202,432 (Pounds) The cajinery is located at Atu'u, across Pago Pago Bay from the largest town and seat of the Government of American Samoa. It is a well-equipped modern plant, with two packing lines and a capacity estimated at between 20 and 25 tons of tuna or 1,000 cases of the finished product per day. The largest amount of tuna sent to the plant on any one day during this operation was about 16 tons, and the average day's run was 7 to 8 tons. Almost all of the tuna sent to the can- nery was yellowfinover 120 pounds, which was packed as chunk style, unless it was of darker color, in which case it was grated. Small experi- mental lots of other styles were packed, and in the last 3 days of operation considerable quantities of albacore were received and put up as fancy solid pack (table 6). 108,621 1,639 40 110,300 38,535 29,821 1,605 69,961 303,867 42,599 30,095 5,727 405 382,693 The cannery has three Freon-refrigerated cold-storage rooms estimated to have a total tuna storage capacity of 60 tons. During this operation they were used for holding bait and provisions, and no tuna was stored in them. Construction of aflake- ice plant at the cannery was started in the middle of March and the plant was to go into operation in May. It has an ice-storage room of about 40 tons capacity insulated V-S^ !*. Fig. 5 - Japanese tuna boats at the Customs Pier in Pago Pago Bay, American Samoa, February 1954. with aluminum foil and employs one belt icer operating off a 7^" x 7-|" compressor and the flake-ice machine transferred from the North Star with two 6" x 6" compres- sors. Eventual installation of a 180-foot screw conveyor to carry the flake icet
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