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Page Page UNITED STATES: INTERNATIONAL (Contd.): 1 Group Appointed to Advise Int erior on Marine 34 . Soviets Explore Indian Ocean Fish Stocks Affairs 34 . Director of New FAO Fishery Division Named 2 Hickel Endorses L ake Superior Pollution 34 . Soviet Vessels Fire on Da nish Fishing Cutt ers Report FOREIGN: 2 Construction of EPC P lant in Washington Canada: St ate Begins 35 Landings in Maritime Provinces Top Billion 3 U. S. Tuna Fleet Expands Pounds 3 EASTROPAC Observations Made Available to 35 East Coast Shrimp Fishery Develops Tuna Fishermen 35 Fishing Vessel Insurance Plan Is Recast 3 International Fisheries Survey Continues Off 36 Salt-Cod Deficiency Payments Announced California 36 Saltfish Corporation Recommended 3 U. S. and Japanese Tuna Experts Confer at 36 Fisheries Research Board Uses Sub As Lab BCF Miami Lab Europe: 4 17 U. S. Firms Participate in London Trade 37 The Yugoslav Fishery in the Adriatic Sea, Show by Richard L . Major 4 1969 Whale Season Yields 108 USSR: 4 Live Crabs Held in Sea-Water Spray System 44 Kamchatka Herring Catches Decline 5 Fish-Gutting Machines Designed for Fishing 44 Fishes Saury in Northern Barents Sea Vessels 44 Whaling Fleet Off Hokkaido 5 BCF Explores Prawn Fishing Off Surinam 44 Considers Squid Fishery Off U. S. Atlantic 6 Intere st Rate on Fishery Loans Is R a ised Coast 6 Nearly $6 Million in Commerc ial Fisherie s 45 Studies Valuable Food Fish Discovered Off Aid Available to State s Hawaii in 1967 6 Shrimp- Fishermen Training Suppor ted by 45 Scientists Discover MagneSium - Metabolism Labor Dept. Regulator in Salmon 7 New Fish-Locating Technique s 45 Underwater Habitat Vehicle Tested in 8 Decade of North Atlantic F ishing Reviewed by Black Sea BCF Iceland: 10 Pacific Saury: Large Latent Resource 46 Fishing Industry in 1969 12 Catfish Farming in 1969 47 Fishermen's Strike Averted 14 Crawfish Industry Norway: 16 Los Angeles: Fabulous Food Funnel 47 Purse -Seine Fleet Losing Profit 18 Great Lakes Face Environmental Crisis 48 Nordic Group to Enter More Export Markets 20 Oyster Institute Honors Bureau of Commer- Sweden: cial Fisheries 48 Government Aided Fishing Industry in1969 Oceanography: Denmark: 21 Automated Weather Buoy at Work off Vir- 48 Firm to Invest in Peru Fish-Meal Factory ginia United Kingdom: 22 Search Begins in Gulf for Dangers to Ship- 48 Decline of Fish Supplies Forecast ping Latin America: 22 Fast-Response Oxygen Sensor Tested Cuba: 24 Foreign Fishing Off U.S., December 1969 49 The Fishing Industry States: Asia: Rhode Island: 52 Japanese Tanner Crab Fishery in Eastern 26 Seed - Lobster Program Underway Bering Sea, by Milstead C. Zahn California: Japan: 27 Anchovy Catch Quota Raised 57 Tuna Industry Beset by High P rices Oregon: 57 Finds Saury Abundant Off U.S. West Coast 27 Town Hall Meetings Held at Fishing Ports 58 New Saury Net Tested Alaska: 58 Investigates Chilean Fishery Resources 27 No Closed Season for Scallop 58 Surveys Shrimp for Yemen 27 New Herring Research Program in South- 58 Fish Utilization Is Changing eastern Alaska 58 Plans 1970 Herring Fishery Off Soviet 27 Statewide Salmon-Forecast Publication Is Coasts Available 59 Exports of Canned Tuna in Oil Fell in 1969 28 •• BOOKS 59 Canned Mackerel Exports and Prices Rise INTERNATIONAL: South Korea: 31 FAO Fishery Aid Tops $120 Million 59 Will Export Saury to Japan 32 F AO Body Gathers Facts on Mediterranean 59 Shrimp Fishing in Car ibbean Begins Pollution 59 To Add Hundreds of L ongliners in 1970 32 Common Market's Fisheries Policy Delayed Taiwan: Again 60 Ratifies Continent al Shelf Convention 32 NEAFC Begins Joint Enforcement Program 60 Plans 1970 Fishing Ves sel Construction 33 Netherlands to Withdraw from International Africa: Whaling Commission 61 The Marine Fisheri e s of M orocco, by 33 Fish Caged to Control Birth Salvatore Di P alma 33 Nordic Nations Set Minimum Prices for 65 •• Food Fish Fact s (Ch annel Catfish) Frozen Fillet Exports 68 ..I NDEX

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