Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1959Vol. XXX, No. 3

Reaches Quota

p. 169 · Read in the full issue

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Pearling Fleet

The Taiyo Fisheries Company’s mother of-pearl shell fisheries fleet, which com menced operations in the Arafura Sea in mid-June—it left Japan on May 26—was expected to reach its 1959 quota of 375 tons of shell by late September or early October.

The fleet, owned by Japan’s largest ocean fishing organisation, this year con sisted of a mother ship and 11 diving vessels. The quota is negotiated between Australia and Japan each season pending settlement of a long-term dispute whereby Australia claims the right to control pearl fisheries on her continental shelf but beyond her territorial waters In 1958 the actual take of shell by the Taiyo fleet was 274 tons.

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