ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the plans of a nation determined to use its off-shore resources primarily as a source of food for its own population and then gradually to achieve export nation status as a natural consequence of this internal growth. It considers a hypothetical, non-industrialized coastal nation to which a wide variety of marine resources are available for exploitation. These resources would include demersal (bottom-living); fish, pelagic (surface-swimming) fish, and shell fish. If all phases of the fisheries (production, processing, and distribution) advance in a coordinated manner, and the national fisheries program achieves some success, then sufficient capital may well have accrued to initiate ocean fishery activities. Techniques for the production and preservation of fish in emerging nations must be developed step by step. Introduction of these new techniques will take considerable time since old and established but inefficient catching, processing and marketing methods must be replaced with new and improved methods.
