. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. March 1961 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 89 United Kingdom (Contd.): and Welsh counterpart's t,874 ($2,447),their boats averaging surpluses of Ll,l95 ($3,460), and LI, 138 ($3,186) respectively. The wide disparity in economics of spe- cific kinds of fishing associated with certain districts was manifest in the South of Scot- land's average net surplus per vessel of til,305 ($3,654) (each crewman averaging t,810 or $2,268) and East England's L77 or $216 (with crews' wages of t,432 or $1,210 per man per year). (Fishing News, Decem- ber 16, 1960
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. March 1961 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 89 United Kingdom (Contd.): and Welsh counterpart's t,874 ($2,447),their boats averaging surpluses of Ll,l95 ($3,460), and LI, 138 ($3,186) respectively. The wide disparity in economics of spe- cific kinds of fishing associated with certain districts was manifest in the South of Scot- land's average net surplus per vessel of til,305 ($3,654) (each crewman averaging t,810 or $2,268) and East England's L77 or $216 (with crews' wages of t,432 or $1,210 per man per year). (Fishing News, Decem- ber 16, 1960.) Venezuela SHRIMP FISHERY TRENDS, DECEMBER 1960: The shrimp packing and'freezing compa- ny that was established late in 1959 at Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, reports that late in 1960 about 20,000 pounds of frozen shrimp were shipped to New York City. In addition, an- other 15,000 pounds were being processed for shipment. Landings of shrimp in Venezuela, Janu- ary-August 1960, amounted to about mil- lion pounds, heads-on (valued at 871,144 bolivars or about US$261,605 at exchange rate of bolivars to US$1), according to the Venezuelan Ministry of Agriculture's Division of Fish and Game. In 1959, shrimp landings for the entire year were about million pounds. There is some evidence that Venezuelan and foreign businessmen are becoming in- terested in freezing and exporting shrimp, the United States Embassy in Caracas re- ported on December 2, 1960, Viet-Nam SHRIMP INDUSTRY: with the exception of one modern shrlmp-processlng firm, the shrimp caught In Vlet-Nam are consumed locally and en- ter Into international commerce only in the form of dried shrimp, of which a total of 150 metric tons were exported in the years 1956-59. Estimates of the number of fishing boats in Viet-Nam run around 37,000. This is a conservative figure supported by a Fisheries Expert of the U. S, Overseas Mission on the basis of his ownextensive inquiries in the fishing areas. About 2,000 of these
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