. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. TRENDS AND •amBaamnKiB' DEVELOPMENTS. Additions to the U. S. Fleet of Fishing Vessels First documents as fishing craft were issued to 60 vessels of 5 net tons and over during June 1955, according to the U. S. Bureau of Customs. This was a de- crease of 27 vessels(31 percent) as compared with the 87 fishing craft newly-documented dur- ing the corresponding month of last year. In the Gulf section only 13 vessels were documented as com- pared with 38 reported for June 1954, a de- crease of 66 percent. The South Atlantic sec- tion had 22 additi
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. TRENDS AND •amBaamnKiB' DEVELOPMENTS. Additions to the U. S. Fleet of Fishing Vessels First documents as fishing craft were issued to 60 vessels of 5 net tons and over during June 1955, according to the U. S. Bureau of Customs. This was a de- crease of 27 vessels(31 percent) as compared with the 87 fishing craft newly-documented dur- ing the corresponding month of last year. In the Gulf section only 13 vessels were documented as com- pared with 38 reported for June 1954, a de- crease of 66 percent. The South Atlantic sec- tion had 22 additions, the Pacific section 21, the Chesapeake Bay section 9, Alaska 8, the Great Lakes and New England sections each 3, and the Middle Atlantic section 1. During the first 6 months of 1955 a toted of 211 vessels were documented for the first time as fishing craft, compared with 453 for the same period of lastyear- a decrease of 53 percent. U. S. Vesse Craft Ls Issued First Documents as June 1955 and Comparisons Fishing Section June Jan,-June Total 1954 1955 1954 1955 11954 New England . , . Middle Atlantic . Chesapeake .... South Atlantic . . Gulf Pacific . (Number) . ' ' '26 ' ' 19 83 116 264 164 7 53 3 3 1 9 2 13 21 3 8 8 2 7 21 38 10 1 10 9 24 30 48 60 5 23 2 18 10 54 63 224 63 3 16 1 1 Great Lakes . . Alaska Hawaii Unknown Total 60 87 211 453 729 Note: Vessels have been assigned to the port. various sections on the basis of their home American Samoa TUNA CANNERY CAPACITY TO BE INCREASED: The tuna cannery at Pago Pago, American Samoa, operated by a United States west coast tuna packer, is to be modernized and its processing capacity increased, the May 1955 Pacific Islands Monthly reports. Principal technical difficulty is the limited reserve fish-holding capacity of the factory--about 200 tons. This means that tuna sometimes have to be wasted if large hauls are brought in by the Japanese boats. The cannery cannot keep pace with the fishing, and all holding room is fvilly tax
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