othsr parts of the world. Production from floating factory Tessals (axceptlng the whale factory vessels) 

 and from otter trawlers constitutes a large part of the total catch. Altho-ugh thn flgurns Include fish 

 from waters of Japanese colonies they do not Include fish landed in the colonies but only those which were 

 brought directly to home ports In Japan Proper. 



(1) The statistics for these fisheries, also obtained from the offic^.al publications, 

 have been converted Into ctJmparable units for this study. The data were collected 

 by the central Japanese Qovemnent directly froa the conpanles or associations opera- 

 ting these fisheries. 



e. The tern "whaling" as used in thla renort Includes all whaling by JaTVm In the offshore . 

 waters of Japan Proper, in waters of Korea, Formosa, ICarafuto, and the Kwantung Fenlnsulaj and by the float- 

 ing factories which operated both in the Antarctic and In northern waters of the Bering Sea and the Arctic 

 Ocean. The production of mink whales, dolphioa, and porpoises, actually conducted with the whaling in 

 Japanese and colonial waters, is not considerea as part of whaling, but is included in coastal fisheries 

 for Japan Proper anrt In the colonial fisheries for the colonial areas. 



(1) The whaling data presented In this report were obtained from the official sources 

 already named. Original data, given In terms of number of whales caught, were con- 

 verted to weight figures. 



f. "Colonial fisheries" refers to the catcher of Korea, Formosa, Karafuto, Kwantung Peninsula, 

 and the fomer Japanese liandatad Islanos. The data for the colonies are complete only <*or 1926-33> 



