FISH SUPPLIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 4

FISH SUPPLIES

GREAT INCREASES IN RUSSIA

During the first quarter of 1943 Soviet fisheries produced 25,000 tons more fish than in the first three months of last year, the Moscow ‘‘Pravda” reported recently. The fisheries of districts liberated from the invaders have started work again. The Red Army is getting vast quantities of fresh fish from the Rostov Region and the Kuban. Two and a half times more fish has been caught by the Stalingrad Fishing Trust in the first quarter of this year than in the same period of 1942,. The fishermen of the Archangel Region have this year produced five and a half times more fish than in the fifst quarter of last year. The Belmorsk (White Sea) Trust has already fulfilled its quota four times over. In the first quarter the fishermen of Kamchatka fulfilled their plan by 148 per cent. The fish supplies could have been much better, but for the processing workers, who are lagging behind and lowering the results of the catches made by the Amur, Turkmenian, Koi and Caspian Trusts. Wherever there are fish, there must be fishermen —on seas, rivers and lakes. To exploit this source of food is not solely the business of the Commissariat for the Fishing Industries. Workers’ supply departments and auxiliary farms attached to factories must make the most of it. If a factory is close to a lake or river, fish from that lake or river must be served in the canteen.