OTER'.iaL VIEW OF JAPANESE FISHERieS PRODUCTION 



1. Bacorded data concemlne Japanese flsheriea production date from I9O8 2A ^^ ccoplete data for 

 all the various fisheries. Including the colonies, are confined to the brief period 1926- 3*5 (Table 1). 

 Figure 1 summarizes Uie production for the period 1908-1*6, and Figure 2 shows the areas of operation during 

 the latter part of this period. 



2. During the peak production period for which data are complete, 19?l-3i, the fisheries based on 

 Japan Proper produced an annual average of U,2lJi,000 metric tons of marine products. With colonial 

 fisheries Included, the annual catch averaged about 6,000,000 metric tons. 



3. Coastal fisheries aave alwayi provided the bulk- of the Jatjanese marine products. Coastal and in- 

 land waters, including production from aquiculture, accounted for an average of 5,058,000 metric tons, or 

 about 71 percent of the total excluding colonies, and about 50 percent of the total including colonies. 



U. For marine products landed in Japan Proper the offshore fisheries, including whales landed from 

 these waters, were the next most productive, providing an average of (510,000 tons in the same cerlod. 

 Overseas /isherles. Including Antarctic and northern whaling, provided 396.000 tons. 



5. 

 a year. 



The colonial fisheries were sizable producers during this period, averaging about 1,762,000 tons 

 However, part of this naa consumed not In Japan but in the respective colonial areas. 



2/ I«88 reliable production data for the coastal fisheries are available for 199(»-1907 inclusive but have 

 been emitted from this report. 



Figure 1 



