. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. August 1955 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 15. TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Additions to the U, S. Fleet of Fishing Vessels A total of 42 vessels of 5 net tons and over were issued first documents as fishing craft during May 1955, according to the U. S. Bureau of Customs. This rep- resents a decrease of 52 vessels (55 percent), com- pared with the 94 fishing craft reported for May 1954. U. S. Vessels Issued First Documents as Fishing Craft , May 1955 and Comparisons Section May Jan. -May Total 1954 1955 11954 1955 11954 New England . .(Number) ....
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. August 1955 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 15. TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Additions to the U, S. Fleet of Fishing Vessels A total of 42 vessels of 5 net tons and over were issued first documents as fishing craft during May 1955, according to the U. S. Bureau of Customs. This rep- resents a decrease of 52 vessels (55 percent), com- pared with the 94 fishing craft reported for May 1954. U. S. Vessels Issued First Documents as Fishing Craft , May 1955 and Comparisons Section May Jan. -May Total 1954 1955 11954 1955 11954 New England . .(Number) ....... 2 7 10 23 Middle Atlantic 3 6 8 8 15 Chesapeake Baji 4 19 15 47 93 South Atlantic 13 10 28 42 119 Gulf 6 33 35 186 313 Pacific . . 13 16 39 53 117 Great Lakes - - 2 3 6 Alaska . . 3 8 15 16 27 Hawaii . . - - 2 1 1 Puerto Rico - - - - 2 Unknown . Total . - - - - 1 42 94 151 366 717 Note: Vessels have be« ,n assigned to the various sections on the basis of their home port. In the Gulf section only 6 vessels were doc- umented as compared with 33 reportedfor May 1954— a decline of 82 percent. The South Atlantic and Pacific sections each had 13 additions, the Chesa- peake Bay section 4, and the Middle Atlantic and Alaska sections each 3. During the first five months of 1955 a total of 151 vessels was docu- mented for the first time as fishing craft, compared with 366 for the corresponding period of last year--a decrease of 59 percent. i American Samoa TUNA CANNERY CONTRACTS WITH JAPANESE FISHING COMPANY: Inorder to obtain a supply of frozen tuna for its American Samoa tuna cannery, the United States firm operating that cannery has concluded a contract with a Japanese firm, a May 26 U. S. Embassy dispatch from Tokyo reports. The contract runs from June 1 to December 1, 1955, and contemplates a target catch of 3, 750 metric tons with a sales price to the canner of US$275 a ton for albacore ajid US$190 a ton for light- meat tuna. The Saipan Maru, a refrigerated vessel of 3, 737
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