MANAGEMENT O F FISHERY RESOURCES
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FIG. 6. Why thc trawlers go t o Labrador; the cod-end of the trawl, with several tons of
fish, comes on board a freezer trawler. (Photo: Fishing News.)
Spain (118 000 tons compared with 87 000 tons in 1965 by South Africa,
and a total by all countries in 1948 of 39 000 tons). This expansion by
industrialized countries has been both directly through increasing
numbers of larger and long-range freezing and factory ships, especially
from Eastern European countries, and also indirectly through investment in locally based fleets in the coast'al countries. I n addition these
countries are developing their own off-shore fisheries.
Similar developments have taken place in the other oceans, particularly in the northern Pacific, from where Japanese and more recently
Soviet fisheries have been expanding farther and farther afield.
European and Japanese vessels are now exploiting the same stocks of
fish, such as the hake off the south-west coast of Africa. Even relatively
poor countries are rapidly developing long-distance fisheries ; Korea,
for instance, has a substantial fleet fishing for tuna in the central Pacific
and in the Atlantic.