Fresh Fish
Piculs
Value $
Per Picul
1946
31,998
3,120,457
$97.52
1947
44,418
3,355,513
$75.54
1948
121,818
8,651,356
$71.02
1949
181,816
17,689,028
$97.00
Salt/dried Fish
Piculs
Value $
Per Picul
1946
211,559
18,476,431
$87.33
1947
189,272
11,166,576
$59.00
1948
246,368
11,941,515
$48.47
1949
270,625
18,740,370
$69.00
Total
1946
243,557 piculs
$21,596,888
1947
233,690
$14,522,089
1948
368,186
$20,592,871
1949
452,441
$36,429,398
(16.8 piculs
..
1 ton)
The main types of fish caught off the Colony are mackerel scad, anchovies, lizzard fish, golden thread, croaker, red sea bream, round herring, hair tail, spotted pouter, slip mouth pouter and white herring.
Fish fry
Since 1947 the Fisheries Department has been helping to supply the fish ponds of the Malayan fish farmers with fry of grass and silver carp and "big head" which is a type of fish similar to carp. These fish spawn only in the Yangtse and the West river, a tributary of the Pearl River. The fry are brought to Hong Kong by boat where they are placed in hermetically sealed four gallon petrol tins which The are filled 3/5 with well water and 2/5 with oxygen. fry are then flown to Singapore or Bangkok where they Each consignment arrive in a healthy vigorous condition. consists of 10-20 tins each containing 500-1000 fry according to size which ranges from 1" during the Summer and Autumn to 2"-3" in Winter and Spring. 306,200 fish fry worth $54,620 were exported in this way during 1949 and of this total 219,250 fry worth $40,729 were sent to Singapore and 86,950 worth $13,891 to Bangkok.
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