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It is recommended that a revolving capital grant be made to the Fisheries Department, on behalf of the Fisheries Co-operative, from which diesel engines may be purchased and fitted into junks suitable for this purpose, to be used to augment wind and to enable trawls to be shot in deeper waters and to facilitate the transport of fish from the fishing grounds to the markets and thus to improve the quality and to increase the quantity of the catch. This step in mechanization might be preliminary to the com- plete mechanization of a part of the fleet. It must be realised, however, that a fully mechanized fleet is unlikely as it would involve throwing out of work a great number of fisherfolk, which cannot be contemplated. The partial mechanization of the fishing fleet will inevitably result in the employment of smaller crews on the vessels, but it is hoped that some of the persons thrown out of work will be employed in fish-curing and fish-canning factories, the construction of which will be consequent on this development. Arrangements are now being made to set up subsidiary indus- tries, e.g. net-making, to absorb any unemployed labour,
Recommendation No. 11
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£50,000
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POND FISHERIES SURVEY.
On the advice of Mr. C.F. Hickling, Fisheries Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, it is recommended that a Dutch expert be invited from Java to spend a few months in the Colony in order to give detailed advice as to the construction of "tambaks" or salt-water fishponds in the Un Long district where there are between 8,000 and 10,000 acres suitable for this purpose. Should he advise that such ponds would prove profitable, the question of their cost would be carefully considered and possibly an application for a loan made to the Colonial Development Corporation. It should be appreciated that there are a number of large fresh and brackish water ponds in the Territories and that pioneer work on the culture of grey mullet and carp together in brackish water ponds was carried out there prior to the war. This problem will receive the attention of the staff of the Fisheries Research Station.
Recommendation No. 12
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£1,000
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9th October, 1947.
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