"ملف ١٧/ ١٦ صناعة صيد الأسماك في مسقط (زيارة الدكتور بيرترام إلى مسقط)" [ظ‎‎١‎٧] (٢١٢/٣٤)

Blegvad, the Danish^fishery expert. The primary aim of the under
taking was the canning of sardines and prawns for export, "but so far
prawns have not "been handled. The technical side of the work is
managed "by several Danes employed by the Persian Government. So
far the factory has worked at much below full capacity because of a
shortage of tin-plate, olive oil and rubber bands, its best output
so far being half a million 110 gram (nett weight) tins (i.e. 50 tons
of sardines) in the winter season November 1945 to March 1944/ I
understand that the selling price of the product is far higher than
is properly justifiable. e , >
I have not seen the factory, only photographs of it, but
have talked with Mr. F.T. Hansen, ’'Specialists de Conserves", who has
been mainly responsible for the quality of the product. In his view
the standard of canning is high, but the quality of the sardines not
all that could be wished. He is- quite confident that, from, the
o. ^ies available at Bundar Abbas, he could prepare a hard-smoked
lush which would be highly acceptable at Abadan. . Such a product
he states could be made with a keeping life sufficient to reach Abadan
m iirst class condition if transport was direct.
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. might well investigate this g
matter; Any such product could presumably be brought/zp to Abadan W[
Saaiiciently quickly in one of the Company’s ov/n small vessels en- %
gaged m petrol distribution in the Gulf. -