FISHING INDUSTRY

Exports and Imports

Frozen and prepared fish and frozen crayfish tails comprise the most important exports of fishery products. The total value of fishery products exported in 1963 was £1,475,450.

Imports are confined to canned and prepared fish, mainly salmon, sardines and herrings. The quantity imported fluctuates from year to year and in 1963 was valued at £995,867.

• FISHING INDUSTRY

• Registration of Fishing Vessels

• Legislation Affecting the Fishing Industry

• Fishing Industry Board

• The Fishing Industry

• Principal Commercial Species

• Landings

• Whitebait

• Crayfish

• Shellfish

• By-products

• Exports and Imports

• Research

• Extension of Limits

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.