. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 71 Norway (Contd.): small improvements were recorded for Finn- mark young cod and of other cod from Nor- wegian and d i st ant waters. The first-hand value of the cod catch, support payments in- cluded, was $ million, down from 1966. Other Species In 1967, the aggregate yield of fishes other than herring, sprat, and cod rose 26%--to 1,580,100 metric tons. Purse seiningfor mackerel in the North Sea and off Shetland produced a record 866,600 tons. Catches of c a p e 1 i n off Finnmark increased to 402,800 tons. Capelin have been
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 71 Norway (Contd.): small improvements were recorded for Finn- mark young cod and of other cod from Nor- wegian and d i st ant waters. The first-hand value of the cod catch, support payments in- cluded, was $ million, down from 1966. Other Species In 1967, the aggregate yield of fishes other than herring, sprat, and cod rose 26%--to 1,580,100 metric tons. Purse seiningfor mackerel in the North Sea and off Shetland produced a record 866,600 tons. Catches of c a p e 1 i n off Finnmark increased to 402,800 tons. Capelin have been very abundant off Fin- mark in winter and spring of the last 3 years, 1968 included. This, combined with limited local reduction plant capacity, has created serious marketing problems for capelin. The problems have been met partly by shipping capelinto plants in other districts, and partly by temporary fishing stoppages. Exvessel in- come from the capelin catch, reflecting poor prices for fish meal and oil, was only about 60% of income from smaller 1966 catch. In 1967, the catch of saithe dropped 16% to 119,800 tons, haddock dropped 36% to 119,800 tons. These species, plus cod, are the most important raw material for frozen- fish fillets, stockfish, and klipfish. No significant changes were recorded in landings of high-priced fish and crustaceans: eel, salmon, halibut, crab, lobster, and shrimp. Disposition of Catch Deliveries of fresh and iced fish fell 13% to 91,300 tons in 1967. Unchanged, or lower, deliveries were recorded for all major spe- cies sold for f r e s h consumption: haddock, cod, saithe, salmon, winter herring. North Sea herring, and mackerel. (Shrimp and crab are excepted.) Extremely difficult marketing conditions for frozen-fish fillets abroad reduced over 20% (to 203,300 tons) the fish raw material purchases of the freezing industry. The stockfish industry apparently hoped for an end of the Nigerian civil war and resump- tion of normal deliveries to this mar
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