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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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