KASAHARA: JAPANESE DISTANT- WATER FISHERIES 



coastal states, and development of foreign fish- 

 eries through investment by Japan, provide 

 partial answers, and these lines will undoubt- 

 edly be pursued. The period of rapid expansion 

 of distant-water fisheries, however, is practi- 

 cally over. The pollack stocks in the North 

 Pacific, on which almost the entire Japanese 

 trawl fisheries in that region depend, are being 

 fished with increasing intensity. With the ex- 

 pansion of Soviet fishing and the entry of a large 

 Korean trawl fleet, problems of conservation and 

 allocation are likely to become major interna- 

 tional issues in the near future. 



Japan has made little progress in the exploi- 

 tation of abundant resources of unconventional 

 species. Although such a possibility might be 

 explored more vigorously in the future, it would 

 not solve most of the problems faced by the 

 fishing industry. Further decontrol of the im- 

 port of fishery products and increased import 

 quotas will provide eff"ective means to meet im- 

 mediate problems of supply shortage and high 

 prices. In general, too, the future of the Jap- 

 anese fishing industry should be considered in 

 the context of the rapidly expanding economy 

 of this highly industrialized country. Labor 

 shortage will become further acute, making 

 many types of fishing economically infeasible. 

 Japan, however, has two advantages over many 

 of the other nations: the government has ef- 

 fective means to control the industry and the 

 nation has strong domestic demands for a great 

 variety of fishery products. The Japanese fish- 

 ing industry will continue to be a competitive 

 one on the international scene for some time to 

 come although it will have to undergo many 

 changes to meet new problems. 



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