  We consider the production of strange particles in Pb-Pb and p-A collisions
at the SPS energy reported by the WA97 experiment. We show that the observed
enhancement of strange baryon and antibaryon yields in Pb-Pb collisions
relative to p-Be and p-Pb can be explained in terms of the statistical model
formulated in canonical ensemble with respect to strangeness conservation. The
importance and the role of strangeness under saturation is also discussed.
