I. The Purpose of Encouraging the Development of Albacore Fishing 



Grounds 



In the last fiscal year grants in aid were made to the ten prefectures 

 and one metropolitan district of Tokyo, Akita, Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, 

 Fukushima, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, /ichi, and Mie with the object of 

 stimulating the export trade and stabilizing the economic position of the 

 fishermen by increasing the production of albacore, one of our nation's most 

 important marine products. These prefectures used their deepsea fishery 

 patrol vessels to carry out operations to develop albacore fishing grounds 

 with these subsidies. As a result good fishing grounds were discovered in 

 the North Central Pacific area, however, it was recognized that continuing 

 detailed siirveys would be required in order to induce ordinary fishing ves- 

 sels to exploit these grounds. Consequently these operations were again 

 subsidized in this fiscal year and as a result the true value of these fish- 

 ing grounds has been made clear. 



II. Items Concerning the Plans for Carrying Out the Program of 



Encotfragement 



1, Outline 2£ the Albacore Fishing Grounds De velopment Conference . 



In continuation of the previous year's program, inquiries v/ere made of 

 those prefectures vrtiich are most deeply concerned with the albacore fishery 

 to ascertain i^rtiether or not they were interested in carrying on operations 

 to develop the albacore fishing grounds. As the eight prefectures and one 

 metropolitan district of Tokyo, Aichi, Miyagi, Aomori, Chiba, /Jtita, Iwate, 

 Kanagawa, and Mie expressed an interest in such a project, a conference of 

 cognizant officials from these prefectiures was held. at the Ministry of 

 Agriculture and Forestry on March 13, 1939. The Chief of the Fisheries 

 Bureau gave a talk on the development of the albacore fishing grounds, and 

 the conditions for the granting of subsidies for this work were presented. 

 In addition discussions were held concerning various concrete matters related 

 to the development of fishing grounds. The persons attending the conference, 

 the speech by the Chief of the Bureau, the conditions for the granting of 

 subsidies, and the matters conferred upon were as follows: 



Persons Attending the Conference 



Fisheries Bureau Officials 



Chief of the Fieheries Bureau Nagashige Tanaka 



Chief of the Section of Oceanography Eizabu:'o Tachibana 



Technician Yokichi Kurita 



Technician Junichi lohara 



Technician Isaku Takehisa 



Technician Saburo Takashima 



Clerk Shozo lijima 



Assistant Technician Sohoi Fukai 



Assistant Technician Junzaburo Yamada 



Officials of the Fisheries Experiment Station 



Technician Hisatoshi I.'arukawa 



Assistant Technician Morisaburo Sakai 



