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Author
Yamamoto, TadashiDate
1977
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A brief review of current status of fisheries development in South China Sea is made based on fishery statistics currently available. The results are summarized as follows: (1) During the past decade the number of inboard powered boats operating in South China Sea area increased by 470%. Furthermore, a good number of fishing boats exceeding 100 gross tons have also appeared. (2) During the same period there appeared a massive explosion of trawl fishery in every country. (3) The present level of marine fishery production in the area is supposed to be some 4 million metric tons valued at about US$800 million. Although numerous fisheries exists trawl, purse seine and drift gill net fisheries have played a leading role and these three fisheries alone produced 55% of the total marine catch in the area.Page Range
117-120Pages
4Title of Parent Book or Report
Proceedings of the Technical Seminar on South China Sea Fisheries Resources, Bangkok, Thailand, 21-25 May 1973Publisher or University
Japan International Cooperation AgencyResource/Dataset Location
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/4114