British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 824

CHAPTER XIX.

Total local catches Net imports (imports less exports and re-exports)

Freeh and frozen Preserved Tinned

Total net imports Total available for consumption

Average per annum available for consumption per head of the urban and semi-urban population

Table 7.

FISH. (in tons).

~I 1931"_[ rna_:__J1938 I 1915

I ~-~8~1_1.,~:10 I l.~411,699 !_4,198

868 I 468 I i, 79211.868 965 887 I 956 2,088 2,168 3,474 861 ' 288 1,26711,041 948

:1:611-11:112[ 5,142-5,072 -5.382

:=2~91- 2,88~1 6,746 i 6,77~1_9.58~

Kga.

11.6

The war closed the usual sources of imported supplies. Local catches, together with the production of fish-ponds, were insufficient to meet demand, although yields from both local sources were substantially increased as compared with pre-war figures. The increase was particularly marked in the case of the culture of carp in ponds, a Jewish industry developed during the war. Figures for 1942 to 1945 were as follows

Table 8. Production OF POND FlSH.

Tons

1942 221

1943 416

1944 703

1945 1,229

It will be seen from table 7 that, whereas the average availability of fish of all kinds was 6.6 kgms. a bead of the urban and semiurban population per annum in the period 1930-31, it had risen to 11.l kgms. a head in.1937-38. Generally at a lower level
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* Records of catches of sea fish were not kept between 1929/30 and 1933/34 and no records of catches of lake fish until 1934/35. The figures shown are therefore estimates.

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