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TABLE 11 



Percentage Comparison of Production of Principal Fishing Regions of the World. 



All Figures Based on Three-year Averages, 1936-37-38, Except Newfoundland 



(1937), Mexico (1940), Soviet Asia (1938), and China (1939). 



Quantities in Thousands of Pounds 



World * 

 36,779,900 



* Food & Agriculture Organization, (1945). 

 t Pacific only, excluding Indian Ocean: 



Japan proper 6,972,871,000, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, (1947), Average 1936-37-38. 



Japan colonial, 4,734,135,000 " " " " " " " 



Soviet Asia, 2,127,849,000, (1938) Food & Agriculture Organization (1945). 



China, 2,890,000,000, (1939) " " " " 



J All countries of Atlantic Northwestern Europe from Gibraltar to the Arctic, except Spain and 

 Soviet Russia; Greenland and Mediterranean France excepted. Averages mostly for 1936-37-3S, 

 a small amount 1935-36-37. Source: Cons. Perm., Bull. Statistique, 1938 (i944)- 



§ Japan proper ; fisheries based on main islands, including all coastal, inland and overseas 

 fisheries, but excluding colonial fisheries, aquiculture, seaweeds, whales and other aquatic animals 

 not fish and shellfish. SCAP, (1947). 



II This Report, Appendix, Table 39, average of 1936-37-38, for seven coastal and Great Lakes 

 regions, plus Mississippi River, including shells, 1931. 



# Alaska, this Report, Appendix, Table 52, average of 1936-37-38, exclusive of whale products, 

 etc. 



**Fish and shellfish only; other aquatic animals and seaweed excluded. SCAP, (i947)- 

 ft Average 1936-37-38. Cons. Perm., Bull. Stat., 1938 (1944). 



Jt Average for 1936-37-38, 1,267,819,000 pounds: Fisheries Statistics of Canada, 1045 (1047). 

 §§ Newfoundland, 1937, 450,000,000, St. Pierre and Miquelon, 1942, 1,638,000. Total 451,638,000 

 pounds. Food & Agriculture Organization (194s). 



nil 1940, 155,100,000. Food & Agriculture Organization, (i945)- 



