"الملف 9/23 I مخططات الصيد بالخليج العربي" [ظ‎‎٣‎٠] (٨٠/٦٠)

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PHESEITT FRE SPI FISH CO LLECTIOI! AED DISTRIBUTIOH SCHEME AT
ABADAIA
This highly successful fresh fish collection schene,
mlciny use of available local fi she men and their traps, is
catchinp fish at a rate of aaout 800 tons per year* The fish
are divided into several categories, Mst quality heinj sold to
Staff in the Company 1 s retail sliops, 2nd quality mainly yoinp
to the Staff restaurant, and 3rd quality heiny sold at a fixed
price throuyh the Municipal fish haeaar, v/hich is under AIOC
control. Those three categories arc “based on the species of
fish primrily, hut occasionally when 1st quality fish has
deteriorated sliyhtly on account of slow transport, it may he
sold off as 3rd quality. The hulh of the 3rd quality fish
consists of ’’Sohoor 1 ', a herriny-1 il:o sxDccies (lljlsa ilisha).
The catch of this species is measured hy number o.ily, other-
\. r ise all quantities are in lbs. Rouylily speahiny hov/ever.
the average v;cijht of the individual "Soboor" v/crlcs out at
about 1 lb. The catches monthly since the start of the .
scheme in February 1943 are stated by AIOC to have been as
follows:~
1943
Total of 1st
plus 2nd qua
lity in lbs.
Number of
’'Soboor’ 1
Approximate
total d:. tons
February
307
233,210
104
March
1241
166,695
• 75
April
21,993
134,950
68
May
81,939
21,890
* 46
June
95,387
80,954
78
July
179,623
100,314
124
Auyust
100,478
75,902
78
September
61,199
34,997
53
October
55,642
9,387
40
November .
32,141
26 ,641
18
December
36,924-
28_
712
1941+.
J anuary
7,855
20,906
12
February
3,937
62,912
31
March
10,217
371,011
169
April
57,007
86,121
64
May
82,942
99,423.
80
June
l Year
108,823
101,854
.... A
450