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3.—FISHERIES—continued.
2. Quantity and value offisheryproducts 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 quantitv
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
okes
Fish, dried,
salted, pickled,
not canned—
305.320.. ..
Fish, canned
Value
£
9,934
10.748
Category
—
Fish
okes
110.S92
• Male
Female ..
Total ..
Of these 509
EXPORTS
Quantity
okes
Value
Sponzes
4<56~
680
1
1
1
Okea
—
Aquicultural products
okes
—
539
539 Main exnployrnenr.
were British Cypriots and 30 foreigners.
6. Number and classes of national boats employed
in seafishingand, ifpossible, in inland-waterfishing,(a)
7. 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.
No.
163
1
Localities
Whole coast of Cyprus
Class
Rowing boats
Motor trawler
Periods
All the year round
N ofisheryproducts
Method
Traps
Lines
From boats
Number of persona
539
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.
12. General information regarding the industry and
the possibilities of its development.
In the sea round Cyprus there are plenty of fish but unfortun–
ately the Cypriot is not a fisherman. Few of them will go out
except in the very best weather and in consequence the supply of
fish is not equal to the demand. Tbe number of boats has certainly
increased of late years but there is still plenty of room for improve–
ment. Two Greek, one Italian, two Syrian and one Cypriot
^ailing trawlers did good work during the year and demonstrated
the practicability of increasing the production of this very valuable
article of diet by more up-to-date methods than those practised
by Cypriots.
The spongefi*hinghas since the year 1903 been entirely under
the control of the Government.
Thefishingis principally carried on bvfishermenfrom the Greek:
and Italian Islands who arrive in the Island in the spring and
fish through the summer.
Each boat must be provided with a licence according to capacity,
the fees being charged :—
(a) For each boat with diving appararus .... 1 °
(6) For each boat with harpoon (kamaki) naked
diving
~"
pa
In addition to the licence fee boats with diving »PPj£f
tu
*
•y 2 5 % of their catch to Government and harpoon boats 20 ,
0
.
In 1937 4 harpoon boats from the Italian Islands worked from
June to October. . .
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•-
Tbe total catch was 359 okes.
(a) There are no inland-waterfisheriesin Cyprus.