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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



Lastly, let me just touch on the legislation for regulating the fisheries. Under 

 this head I may mention the method which has been adopted by the Government to 

 govern all fishing-grounds. In every fishing locality, the position of all traps and 

 seines is located on a map, and this map is filed in the county offices for the reference 

 of fishermen, so that when they have any quarrel in regard to the position of nets it 

 can be settled very easily. Under this head comes the regulation for inspecting the 

 manufacture of kombu. The manufacture of kombu lately became inferior, and to 

 check this evil the Government has made a regulation requiring that all kinds of 

 kombu must be inspected and branded before it is exported, just as the mackerel are 

 branded in this country. 



Now, before I finish my remarks, let me read a few statistics concerning the 

 fisheries of the island, which I prepared some time a go for the U. S. Fish Commission 

 Bulletin : 



Number of persons, boats, seines, and nets engaged in the fisheries of Hokkaido in 1884. 



Items. 



Fisheries proprietors 



Employed haiids 



Boats .' 



Seines 



Trap nera 



Gill nets 



Miscellaneous nets .. 



L 



Sapporo 

 district. 



3,324 



33, 630 



16, 800 



267 



1,828 



33, 365 



40 



Value of the principal fishery products of Hokkaido in 1884. 



Fishery. 



Herring 



Fall salmon 



Spring salmon. 



Cod 



Iwashi 



Trepang 



Ear shell 



Squid 



Kombu 



Sea otter 



Oyster 



Total 



Hakodate \ Sapporo 

 district. I district. 



Yens.* 



1.412,762 



31, 389 



1, 528 



16, 396 



116,577 



5,661 



25,818 



35, 250 



49, 993 



1,696,974 



Tens. 



!. 023, 883 



221, 993 



5,617 



85, 048 



15, 434 



23, 210 



95, 123 



2, 817 



189,811 



Neniuro 

 district. 



Tens. 



108, 003 



281,874 



118,675 



712 



1,640 



14, 623 



164, 440 



3,150 



13, 413 



2, 662, 936 706, 530 



I 



Total. 



Tens. 



, 544, 648 

 535, 856 

 125, 820 

 102, 156 

 133, 651 



43, 494 

 121, 941 



38, 067 



404, 244 



3,150 



13, 413 



5, 066, 440 



J 



*One yen equals about 80 cents. 



I will remark here, however, that the figures just given are rather smaller than 

 the average, on account of the poor catch and low prices during the year; but I think 

 they will give an idea of the amount of the fish caught on the island. 



