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3.—FISHERIES—continued.
2. Quantity and value of fisherv products imported
from and exported to other countries.
3. Quantity of the principal categories of fishery
products prepared in the country.
4. Quantity of fish caught by national vessels
irrespective of the place of landing, and the quantity
of aquicultural products taken.
5. Number of persons engaged infisheries,classified,
as far as possible, by sex and according to whether
fishing is their main or secondary employment.
IMPORTS
Quantity ' Value
okes
; t £
Fish, dried.
salted, pickled, -
noe canned—
191,720.. .. \ 6,393
Fish, canned
!
—
1 6.332
Category
—
Fish
okes
179,648 •
EXPORTS
Quantity
okes
Sponges
906
Value
1.S33 f
>
-*•
Okes
***
.
Aquicultural products
okes
l,318f
Sponges
Male .. 539
Female .. —
>
Total .. 539
Of these 509 were British Cypriot- and 30 foreigners.
6. N u m b e r and classes of national boats employed
in seafishingand, if possible, in inland-waterfishing,(a)
1. Localities in which thefisheryproducts landed in
the country were obtained and the periods spent in
obtaining such products.
8. Nature and use offisheryproducts and description
of methods employed.
9. Methods used (e.g. number of persons using traps,
lines, etc.).
10. Brief description of boats with usual number in
crew and chief kinds offish taken.
11. Seasons offisheriesand description of area fished.
12. General information regarding the industry and
the possibilities of its development.
No.
163
1
Localities
Whole coast of Cyprus
Class
'
Rowing boats
Motor trawler
Periods
Ail the year round
Nofisheryproducts
Method
Traps
Lines
From boats
Number of persons
Not available
Rowing boats with crew from 2 to 5 persons. Red mullet,
goby, lithrini and stringla.
All the year round. In Cyprus waters within a mile or two
of the shore.
In the sea round Cyprus there
the Cypriot is not a fishei
except in the very best weather
fish is not equal to the demand.
increased of late years but there i
ment. Three Greek and Italian
did good work during the year an
of increasing the production of
by more up-to-date methods thai
The spongefishinghas since t
the control of the Government.
Thefishingis principally carrie
and Italian Islands who arrive i
fish through the summer.
Each boat must be provided wi
the fees being charged *.—
(a) For each boat with mach
crew not exceeding 30 persons
(6) For each boat with the
only, crew noe exceeding 15 p«
(c) For each boat with nal
are plenty of fish but unfortun-
•man. Few of them will go out
and in consequence the supply of
The number of boats has certainly
s still plenty of room for improve-
and one Cypriot sailing trawlers
d demonstrated the practicability
this very valuable article of diet
l those practised by Cypriots.
he year 1903 been entirely under
d on bv fishermen from the Greek
n the Island in the spring and
th a licence according to capacity,
ine diving apparatus, £ *.
"Feroez" apparatus
ced divers, crew not
1 0
(_) For each boat with harpoon (kamaki), crew
In addition to the licence fee
divers pay 2 3 % of their catel
boats 20%.
In 1936 13, harpoon boats fro
worked from 3Iay to September.
The total catch was 1,313 oke-
> machine boats and boats with
I to Government and harpoon
m the Italian and Greek Island*
3.
• Includes fish caught by 3 foreign trawlers (no separate figures for national vessels).
t Fished by foreigners from the Greek and Italian Islands (no sponge fishing done by national vessels).
(a) There are no inland-waterfisheriesin Cyprus.