. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. AFRICA 109 1968 FISH CATCH UP IN SOUTH AND SW AFRICA South Africa's Cape west coast shoal fish catch for the first 2 months of the 1968 sea- son, excluding both factory ships, was 67,224 short tons of pilchards, 867 of maasbanker, 23,410 of mackerel, 20,370 of anchovy, and 1,815 ofred-eye herring. The total: 113,677 tons. In the 1967 period, the catch was 110,319 tons: pilchards 48,551 tons; maasbanker 3,216; mackerel 9,526; anchovy 57,341; and red-eye herring 1,685 tons. In 1966, the total was 54,928 tons: pilchards 20,772 tons;
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. AFRICA 109 1968 FISH CATCH UP IN SOUTH AND SW AFRICA South Africa's Cape west coast shoal fish catch for the first 2 months of the 1968 sea- son, excluding both factory ships, was 67,224 short tons of pilchards, 867 of maasbanker, 23,410 of mackerel, 20,370 of anchovy, and 1,815 ofred-eye herring. The total: 113,677 tons. In the 1967 period, the catch was 110,319 tons: pilchards 48,551 tons; maasbanker 3,216; mackerel 9,526; anchovy 57,341; and red-eye herring 1,685 tons. In 1966, the total was 54,928 tons: pilchards 20,772 tons; maasbanker 8,248; mackerel 9,400; anchovy 12,987; and red-eye herring 3,521 tons. January 1968 Figures The Division of Sea Fisheries reported the Jan. 1968 catch comprised p il c ha rd s 23,896 tons; maasbanker 696; mackerel 21,923; anchovy 10,810; and red-eye herring 836 tons. The total catch was 58,161 tons. In Feb., the total catch was 55,516 tons: pilchards 43,328 tons; maasbanker 171 tons; mackerel 1,478; anchovy 9,560; and red-eye herring 1,815 tons. In Feb. 1967 the figures were: pilchards 34,763 tons; maasbanker 1,579; mackerel 8,957; anchovy 23,814; and red-eye herring 1,685 tons. In Feb. 1966: pilchards 16,135 tons; maasbanker 1,889; mackerel 6,062; anchovy 6,034; and red-eye herring 3,521 tons. The Jan. 1968 catch yielded 13,467 tons of fish meal, 543,252 gallons of fish body oil and 1,852,512 lbs. of canned mackerel. In Feb. 1968, the catch yielded 13,664 tons of fish meal, 289,118 imperial gallons of fish body oil, and 101,136 lbs. of canned mack- erel. South-West Africa In South-West Africa, the Jan. 1968 shoal catch was 14,862 tons of pilchards and 72 tons of anchovy; these yielded 3,872 short tons of fish meal and 1,298 long tons of fish body oil. The Feb. catch reached 69,170 tons of pilchards, 3,57 5 tons of anchovy, and 54 tons of maasbanker; the catch yielded 16,766 tons of fish meal and 5,240 tons of fish body oil. Pilchard boats were making good catches bo
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