JAPAN- 



UNITED STATES 

 PERU 



"ALBACORE" 



JAPAN - 



UNITED STATES 

 PERU 



BONITO" 



JAPAN 



UNITED STATES 

 PERU 



JAPAN 



UNITED STATEr 

 PERU 



40 60 80 100 



THOUSANDS OF TONS 



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 PjirifM- Orraii ar<-iuinl> f<»r about c>n«'-lialf of llw worM's 

 total for lli<*M* ^|M•«•i€*^. licrt- ar*- >lio\«i) 4-;itrhf> <if I'lTil, 

 Japan, and tin- 1 liitrd Statr^ for I96.H. Sinirr<-> of the ilala 



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and niatrrial from tin* !Naiikai Kcgional h'ivhrri4'> l{r>4*ar<-l) 

 Laboratory, Japan. 



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TABLE 1. Catch (in thousands of metric tun>>) of major 

 tuna and lunalike specie;" bv Japan, United Slaloji, and IVru 

 in Pacific Ocean, 1963. Sources: FAO Yearbook, Vol. 16, 

 and INankai Hegional Fisheries Research Laboratory, Japan. 



Japan 



Albacore 77.4 



Bigeye 110.2 



Bluefiin 35.3 



Bonito 



Skipjack 124.4 



Yellowfin 73.3 



Total 420.6 



manded prices ranging between 3200 per ton for skipjack 

 and $350 per ton for albacore, against $47.50 for Pacific 

 mackerel and jack mackerel. Similar disparities exist in 

 other countries. In Peru, tunas in 1963 commanded a price 

 per ton nine times that for the average of all other marine 

 products and in Japan, about three times. 



Although tunas are found all around the globe and are 

 an important element of the French and Spanish landings, 

 Japan, the United States, and Peru have the major fisheries. 

 These three, in 1963. took 75 percent of the recorded world 

 catch of tunas: Japan, 677,100 tons (half the world catch) ; 

 the United States, 162,000 tons; Peru, 130,900 tons. The 

 total value to the fishermen was: in Japan $209 million, in 

 the United States $45 million, and in Peru $10 million. In 

 dollar values, the tunas formed the base of the most impor- 

 tant fishery in Japan, the second in Peru, and the third in 

 the United States, where they were exceeded only by shrimp 

 and salmon. 



The Japanese fishing fleets range the Pacific, Atlantic, and 

 Indian Oceans, so that the 1963 total of 677,100 tons repre- 

 sents a worldwide catch. Recently the Nankai Regional 

 Fisheries Research Laboratory has made data available that 

 allow the separation of statistics on fishes caught in the 

 Pacific from those caught elsewhere. These figures show 



