ABSTRACT
The Report of the Commission of Profiteering paragraph 132 reads as follows 'The supplies are, of course, local and come from fishing stakes (kelong) round Singapore and the neighbouring Islands of the Rhio, Lingua Archipelago and from fishing boats which use trawls'. The recommendations of the Commission on Profiteering are contained in Paras 159 to 168. The Fisheries of the three western States of the Federated Malay States (FMS) are under the charge of the Director of Museums and Fisheries. Trawling by means of steam-powered vessel has proved to be, in most parts of the world, the cheapest known form of capturing fish in bulk. As the price of rice rules all living costs, so does the price of fish rule the prices of all meat in the markets, consequently the expenditure of a million dollars or.
