founded in 1956, reported that by mid-1958 

 there were 38 active overseas projects. 

 These included 12 joint enterprises, 9 pro- 

 grams in which vessels or technical guidance 

 were provided, 16 foreign based fishing 

 operations, and 1 arrangement for direct 

 export. At that time nearly as many more 

 projects were in various stages of imple- 

 mentation. 



Japanese overseas fishery enterprises 

 in one or more of their many forms are now 

 in operation or planned in more than 35 

 countries. Approximately liiO Japanese fish- 

 ing vessels are based in foreign countries 

 and engaged in joint operations, concession 

 fishing, or in training or investigational 

 work with respect to tuna. The areas of 

 overseas tuna activities are presently the 

 Indian, and South Central and Eastern Paci- 

 fic and the South and Central Atlantic 

 Oceans (annon., 1959b, fig. 1), as illus- 

 trated in figure 6. Tuna processing plants 

 are being planned, built or are in operation 

 in about fifteen countries. 



Japanese governmental control and 

 sponsorship of overseas fishery operations 

 is considerable and is exercised through the 

 Japanese Fishery Agency and the Japanese 

 Overseas Fisheries Cooperative Society. Bi- 

 lateral and multilateral agreements between 



fishing companies of Japan and other govern- 

 ments or foreign companies also play a large 

 part in controlling overseas operations. 



The Japanese Government controls 

 overseas fishing operations chiefly through 

 licensing fishing operators and by limiting 

 the number of licenses in some areas. Joint 

 Japanese-foreign enterprises are not includ- 

 ed in this quota or license system because 

 the fishery is considered a part of the 

 national product of the foreign country. 



In order to assess trends it is use- 

 ful to examine the monies budgeted by the 

 Japanese Government for various activities. 

 With respect to the development of new over- 

 seas fishing grounds, recent sums budgeted 

 by the Fishery Agency were: 1956, $5U6,000; 

 1957, $5^5, 000; 1958, $552,000; 1959, 

 $981,000. For the promotion of foreign 

 based fisheries the sums budgeted were: 

 1956, $38,000; 1957, $57,000; 1958, $lU,000; 

 1959, $173,000. In each instance it will be 

 noted that the amounts budgeted in 195? are 

 significantly increased over previous sums. 



WORLD CATCH OF TUNA 



The world catch of tuna, including 

 bonito, has more than doubled from about 

 680 million pounds in 19U8 to over 1.7 



J^ — Joint Companies in Operation 



^^ — Joint Companies Planned 



9 — Concession or Contract Fishing 



O — Technical Aid or Exploratory Fishing 



Q — Fueling, Transshipment, or Sales Bases 



Figure 6. — Japanese fisheries based in overseas areas. 



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