PRODUCTION OF CQdSTAL AND OFFSHORE FISHERIES BT RBOIONS 



1. Table 12 summarizes for a fire-year period (1036-)4n) the landings from coastal and offshore fish- 

 eries by prefectures aind Japanese administrative reglona (see Figure 7 for reference) Although fishing is 

 widespread throughout Japan and important in all coastal districts, three regions stand out as areas of 

 major production: (1) Hokkaido which provides core than one-third of the total; (2) the eastern coast of 

 Honshu north of Shizuoka (parts of the Tohoku and Kanto regions); and (5) the western coast of Kyushu and 

 extreme southern Honshu (including Nagasaki and Yamaguchi prefectures) 



2, Inclusion of the overseas fisheries production would not change this over-all picture of regional 

 landings, since the yol'jme of the overseas fisheries was smaller than that of the coastal and offshore 

 waters, and the prewar catch fron overseas was largely landed in the same three regions. Ports of Hokkaido; 

 western Kyushu and the southwestern tip of Honshu were the important landing points for the overseas fish- 

 eries. 



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