Presented next for reference is a table of yearly landings 

 at the port of Misaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, the port at which is 

 landed most of the albacore taken by vessels from Miyagi PrefecturSo 

 It is well known that the port of Misaki together with the ports of 

 Shizuoka Prefecture, are the most important places for the landing of 

 albacore in Japan » It appears that the increase from year to year 

 in the landings from the winter fishery at the port of Misaki is due 

 to the extension of the fishing grounds to the east of Cape Nojima 

 as well as to an increase in the number of fishing boats based at 

 this porto 



Albacore Landings at the Port of Misaki 

 /r,000-kan units convBrted to short tons7 



The reasons for the particularly abrupt decline in the catch 

 of the summer fisherj'- in 1936 and 1937 have been very loudly 

 debated, however, as little basic research had been done at that 

 time, it was only possible to listen to the advocates of the over- 

 fishing theory, the cyclical theory, the abnormal oceanographic 

 conditions theory, etCo In 1938, fishing became so good as to 

 be comparable to the catch for 1933, and much of the anxiety of 

 those engaged in the fishery disappeared, however, some of the 



