. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. November 1954 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 63 Santa Marta and Cabo de la Vela in the Guajira Peninsula. As far as is known, no large-scale fishing with modern equipment has ever been attempted in Colombian waters along the Atlantic coast. Commercial fishing activities at present are limited. They are so limited in fact that there now exists only two important commercial outlets in the entire country who purchase sizable quantities of fish for processing and eventual retail on the Colombian market. Both firms are located in Barranquilla. A nu
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. November 1954 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 63 Santa Marta and Cabo de la Vela in the Guajira Peninsula. As far as is known, no large-scale fishing with modern equipment has ever been attempted in Colombian waters along the Atlantic coast. Commercial fishing activities at present are limited. They are so limited in fact that there now exists only two important commercial outlets in the entire country who purchase sizable quantities of fish for processing and eventual retail on the Colombian market. Both firms are located in Barranquilla. A number of other firms have been organized in coastal cities only to be dis- solved after a short period of operation as the fishing business has proved to be difficult and not immediately lucrative. Only recently a fish canning plant established at Santa Marta in July 1952 was closed down. It is under- stood to have been reorganized and is again operating on a very small scale. However, local trade sources state that as far as they know the Santa Marta canning plant has only been purchasing small quantities of shrimp and oysters and they do not consider it to be very active. Also recently dissolved in the past few months has been a government-spon- sored firm. This firm originally was estab- lished in 1945 with a paid in capital of one million pesos (US$549,000) for the purpose of encouraging offshore fishing, the prepara- tion of dried fish, and establishing freezer facilities in the country to help augment the domestic consumption of frozen fish. Since its dissolution, apparently due to continuing financial losses in its operations, its functions have been absorbed by the Government's Instituto Nacional de Abastec- imientos (INA) which is responsible for building storage facilities for foodstuffs and importing certain staples in short supply. The announced policy of the INA is to de- velop the fishing industry in the waters of San Andres and Providencia by sending refrigerated
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