. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Greenland LARGE FISH-PROCESSING PLANT PLANNED: There are plans to build a large fish-proc- essing plant in Godthaab', Greenland, with an annual capacity of 10,500 metric tons of raw fish, from which quick-frozen fillets will be produced and exported. The operation will be a joint venture by Greenland, Danish, and Fa- roe Island interests. SHRIMP LANDINGS SET RECORD IN 1960: Shrimp landings during the 1960 season at Christianshaab, Disco Bay, Greenland, set a new record, according to the December 1960 issue of Dansk Fiskeritidende, a Danish
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. Greenland LARGE FISH-PROCESSING PLANT PLANNED: There are plans to build a large fish-proc- essing plant in Godthaab', Greenland, with an annual capacity of 10,500 metric tons of raw fish, from which quick-frozen fillets will be produced and exported. The operation will be a joint venture by Greenland, Danish, and Fa- roe Island interests. SHRIMP LANDINGS SET RECORD IN 1960: Shrimp landings during the 1960 season at Christianshaab, Disco Bay, Greenland, set a new record, according to the December 1960 issue of Dansk Fiskeritidende, a Danish fish- ery periodical. The 16 small shrimp cutters based there caught almost 1,500 metric tons of shrimp with an ex-vessel value of 1,196,679 Danish kroner (about US$174,000). The new shrimp-processing factory which began opera- tions during the past summer made it possible to increase production percent. (Fiskets Gang, January 5, 1961.) ^m Iceland EX-VESSEL FISH PRICES BEING NEGOTIATED: Late in December 1960, negotiations were under way between representatives of Iceland- ic fishing vessel owners and the fishermen's unions regarding ex-ves- sel prices for the main fishing Ice- landic season from January-May 1961. As of the end of 1960, the negotia- tors were still far from reaching an a- greement. The fish- ermen on the vessels were demanding a wage increase of 77 Typical Icelandic fisherman. s!< :^ ^ ^ FISH LANDINGS IN WEST GERMANY UPSET MARKET: The West German fishing industry claimed late in December 1960 that direct landings of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. National Marine Fisheries Service; U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; United States. Bureau of Commericial Fisheries. [Washington] : National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs. ,
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