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. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 72 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 7 coastwise fleet was engaged in the seasonal fishing for "castaneta" (brama-raii) and catches were good. This season was approaching the end and many of the vessels would have to be tied up for a time because the closed season for sardines (the other species fished by the small-range fleet) would not terminate until April 30. ^ :^ :^ :^ :^ FISHING FLEET GRANTED LOAN CREDIT FOR MODERNIZATION: The grant- ing of a credit of 25 million pesetas (US$ million) to modernize the Spanish short
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 72 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 7 coastwise fleet was engaged in the seasonal fishing for "castaneta" (brama-raii) and catches were good. This season was approaching the end and many of the vessels would have to be tied up for a time because the closed season for sardines (the other species fished by the small-range fleet) would not terminate until April 30. ^ :^ :^ :^ :^ FISHING FLEET GRANTED LOAN CREDIT FOR MODERNIZATION: The grant- ing of a credit of 25 million pesetas (US$ million) to modernize the Spanish short- range fishing fleet of small vessels operating out of Vigo, El Grove, Marin, and Cangas was announced recently by the Marine Credit Bureau of Instituto Social de la Marina. Seventy percent of the grant was to be allocated during mid-May, reports a May 13 U. S. Embassy dispatch from Madrid. Tunisia CANNED FISH EXPORTS, 1954: Tunisian exports of canned and preserved fish (including meat) during 1954 totaled 3,648 metric tons, valued at 756 million francs (US$ million), reports an April 21 U. S. consular dispatch from Tunis. This is a decrease of 3 percent in quantity and 4 percent in value as compared with 1953 ex- ports of 3,745 tons, valued at 787 million francs (US$ million). GERMAN-BUILT FACTORYSHIP TRAWLER MAKES TRIAL TRIPS: Pushkin, the first of 24 factoryship trawlers of 1,230 dead-weight tons The M. S. Pushkin, the first of 24 factoryship trawlers ordered in East Germany by a Russian in:iport firm. East Germany by the Sudo Import Co. of Moscow, is making its trial trips, according to the German correspondent of Fiskets Gang (March 23), a Norwegian fishery peri- odical. A German crew and technicians will man the vessel accompanied by a num- ber of experts from the Sudo Import Co. The 24 ships are to be delivered in 1955 and 1956, and will cost 200 million marks (about US$46 million). The Pushkin was launched in December 1954. It measures 246 fe
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