Peru is the World's third most 

 important producer of tuna, ranking after 

 Japan and the United States, Peru is situ- 

 ated immediately adjacent to some of the 

 richest ocean waters of the world, but until 

 the 19U0's its tuna production was negligi- 

 ble. During the war, however, there was a 

 demand for protein food and the tuna fishery 

 was stimulated by outside investment and is 

 now a factor of significance in the world 

 picture. Roughly 85 percent of the catch 

 is bonito. 



There are numerous other tuna fish- 

 eries in the world, many of great antiquity. 

 Some of them will be discussed briefly in 

 later sections of this paper. 



Sources of Data on Tuna 

 and Bonito by Countries 



JAPAN: Data for 1953 and 1957 from Jap- 

 anese Government's annuals, Report 

 of Catch Statistics on Fishery 

 and Agriculture, 195U and 1957. 

 Data for 19h8, Statistical 

 Abstract of Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry, Japan 1957. 

 UNITED Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 

 STATES: Fishery Statistics of the United 

 States, 19U8, 1953, and 1957. 



Figure 2. — Percentage composition of 

 Japanese tuna vessels larger than 

 50 tons (1951, »53, '55, and *57). 



6000 



*000 



2000 







too 



< SO TOMS B B 



LJilli 



1 1111 1 1 



Z 300 



i . 



200 

 ISO 

 100 



so 





 *0 

 JO 

 20 

 10 







100 -700 TONS 



II I I II I 



200-500 TOMS 



* 500 TOMS 



■ I 



19*0 >9SI 1912 1953 1951 1955 1956 1957 





Figure 3. — Number of Japanese tuna vessels 

 - longline and live bait (1940 and 1951, 

 •53...»57). 



PERU: Data for 1957 annual Statistical 

 Fishery Report, Peru - 1957. 

 U. S. Embassy, Lima, Dispatch No. 

 U36, October 30, 1958. 



TAIWAN: Data for 19U8, Taiwan Agricul- 

 tural Yearbook 1950 Edition. 

 Taipei, November 1950. 



ALL OTHER: United Nations. Food and Agri- 

 cultural Organization, Yearbook 

 of Fishery Statistics, Vol. VII, 

 1957 Rome. 



EXPANSION OF JAPANESE TUNA FISHERIES 



Japan is the leading fishing nation 

 of the world. Crowded as the Japanese are 

 on the home islands with a large population 

 and limited arable land, they have turned 

 their attention to the sea and consider that 

 they have a stake in the fish of all the 

 world's ocean. 



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