. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 59 India PLANS TO DEVELOP KERALA STATE FISHERIES The central government was expected to approve a US$ million fishing development plan for Kerala State. Ice plants, processing plants, and 18 fish harbors are planned. Thirty-one deep sea trawlers, to fish shrimp, tuna, and perch, are to be purchased over a 2-year period. The development is expected to yield 10,000 metric tons for the domestic market, and an unspecified amount for export. ("Seafood Trade Journal," June 1968.) DEEP-WATER SHRIMP FOUND OFF KERALA COAST In early 1968
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 59 India PLANS TO DEVELOP KERALA STATE FISHERIES The central government was expected to approve a US$ million fishing development plan for Kerala State. Ice plants, processing plants, and 18 fish harbors are planned. Thirty-one deep sea trawlers, to fish shrimp, tuna, and perch, are to be purchased over a 2-year period. The development is expected to yield 10,000 metric tons for the domestic market, and an unspecified amount for export. ("Seafood Trade Journal," June 1968.) DEEP-WATER SHRIMP FOUND OFF KERALA COAST In early 1968, Indo-Norwegian Project (INP) trawlers discovered a bed of deep-water shrimp in 150 to 200 fathoms off Quilon. Processors and exporters are hoping these grounds will provide commercial quantities. Need for Future Surveys Now that INP has found these new com- mercially exploitable grounds, India should intensify offshore surveys to find the raw materials for an industry that is operating below capacity. ("SeafoodTrade ;) Taiwan PUSHES LARGE FLEET BUILDUP Taiwan is planning a 5-year fishing fleet expansion program to increase annual pro- duction from 458 metric tons to about 800,000 tons in 1972. It hopes to build 155,000 gross tons by 1972 for billion yuan (US$ million); 139,000 tons will be for distant- water fisheries. Construction loans will be obtained from the World Bank, domestic banks, the Latin American Fund, Asian De- velopment Bank, and Women and girls packing shrimp at a deep-freeze plant in Cochin. From 1958 to 1963, the University of Kerala's Oceanography Department surveyed Kerala's Continental Shelf at 150 stations over an area of 4,800 square miles. Large num- bers of Penaeopsis philippi and Penaeopsis rectacutus were collected from stations be- yond the 100-fathom line. P. philippi was found occupying an almost continuous bed near the 100-fathom line; the maximum in- tensity was between Cochin and Calicut. P. rectacutus, less
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