Endnotes 



1 . The bulk of background information describing the Japanese distant-water fleets is taken from the annual 

 Japanese fisheries yearbook, Suisan Nenkan. 



2. U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, August 4, 1993. 



3. It is unclear whether the final destination for the Takachiho Mam was Somalia or Honduras. 



4. U.S. Embassy Tokyo, November 22, 1991. 



5. The author is unable to explain the discrepancy between the total number of Japanese southern trawlers 

 noted in appendices D and J. 



6. U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, August 4, 1993. 



7. Nikkan Suisan Keizai Shinbim, July 20, 1993. 



8. Nikkan Suisan Keizai Shinbun, September 4, 1992. 



9. U.S. Embassy Tokyo, October 19, 1992. 



10. Nikkan Suisan Keizai Shinbun, April 27, 1993. 



11. "Research related to the Japanese mothership salmon fishery and the International North Pacific Fisheries 

 Commission," NOAA/NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center Monthly Report, January 1972, 



p. 2. 



12. Michael L. Dahlberg, "The High Seas Salmon Fisheries of Japan, 1990," National Marine Fisheries 

 Service-Alaska Fisheries Science Center, September 27, 1990, p. 2. 



13. Nikkan Suisan Keizai Shinbun, March 4, 1993. 



14. This figure includes all coastal and distant-water fisheries. 



15. Asian Development Bank/Infofish, Global Industry Update: Tuna, 1991, p. 52. 



16. U.S. Embassy Tokyo, April 14, 1992. 



17. Forum Fisheries Agency News Digest, No. 6, November-December 1992, p. 1. 



18. Katsuo-Maguro Tsushin, No. 6525, May 6, 1992, as printed in Forum Fisheries Agency News Digest, No. 

 4, July-August 1992, p. 23. 



19. The source for information on Japanese Government promotion of shipbuilding comes from, "The Journal 

 of the Fishing Vessel Association of Japan", Nos. 294 and 300. 



20. U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, May 28, 1993. 



21. Nikkan Suisan Keizai Shinbun, April 9, 1993. 



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