Japan Claims Big Snapper Catch
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 6. Japanese fishing boats off the coasts of New Zealand are taking as much snapper every year as the New Zealand fishing industry, if a report from the Japanese Foreign Ministry is correct.
The report says that 40 Japanese trawlers catch 8000 tons of snapper off New Zealand coasts every year. A spokesman for the Marine Department said in Wellington today that in 1964 the New Zealand snapper catch was 8050 tons out of a total catch of 29,450 tons. Of the catch, 2750 tons was exported frozen, mainly to Australia. About 350 tons of snapper was exported. Asked if anyone had tried to export fish to Japan, the
spokesman said samples of New Zealand frozen fish had | been landed in Japan. However, the Japanese requirements had made the export of fish difficult and no great trade had developed. He was unable to confirm or deny the Japanese figures on the snapper catch, because statistics were not available, he said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30952, 7 January 1966, Page 3
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