and attach a radar reflector, or a radio signal transmitter, 

 or both to help the factory ship locate their kills. 



The huge factory sliips are equipped with complete 

 processing facilities. The whales are taken aboard via a 

 stern ramp, and the blubber and meat are stripped on 

 the main deck. In the processing areas below decks, the 

 meat is frozen for human and animal feed, oil is 

 extracted from the blubber, vitamin A is extracted from 

 the liver, and bones are ground into meal. 



LONGLINE FISHERY 



The Japanese longline fishery off Alaska (fig. 10) has 

 been far smaller than tiic other Japanese fisheries. It has 

 included halibut expeditions in 1963 and 1964 (the 

 latter being very brief) and a small-scale fishery for 

 sablefish since the early 1960"s. 



The 1953 International North Pacific Fisheries 

 Convention described earlier further provided that Japan 

 abstain from fishing for halibut of North American 

 origin. This prohibited Japan's entrance into the halibut 

 fishery along the Aleutian Islands, in the eastern Bering 

 Sea, and in the Gulf of Alaska. In 1962 the Commission 

 established under the Convention determined that the 

 eastern Bering Sea halibut no longer met the 

 qualifications for "abstention" under the terms of the 

 Convention. The 10-year ban on the taking of halibut by 

 Japanese in the eastern Bering Sea was lifted in May 

 1963. Five Japanese factory ships accompanied by 66 

 longline vessels engaged m the eastern Bering Sea hahbut 

 fishery from May into September 1963; their catch 



Sablefish on deck of a Japanese longline vessel in the Gulf of 

 Alaska. The fish are headed, eviscerated, and washed on deck, 

 and then go below deck where they are sharp frozen and stored! 



Figure 10.— Japanese longline fishing areas. 

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