The large percentages of chum salmon 

 taken by trap gear reflect mainly the 

 catches of the trap fishery along the 

 Okhotsk Sea coast eind Nemuro Straits. The 

 eastern Hokkaido salmon fishery is prima- 

 rily a gill-net and longline fishery, ajad 

 the percentages of chum salmon taken by 

 gill nets and longlines in this fishery are 

 actually larger than are shown in the table. 



ANNUAL LANDINGS BY SPECIES 

 AND MONTHS 



The annual landings in pounds by spe- 

 cies and months are shovm in table 3. The 

 1952-56 landings include catches from the 

 Japan Sea pink salmon gill-net and longline 

 fishery and the Hokkaido Island local fish- 

 ery, primarily a trap fishery along the 

 coastal regions of the Nemuro Straits and 

 the Okhotsk Sea. However, the total catch 

 of these fisheries for the months shown in 

 the table is rather small. The total catch 



of the Japan Sea pink salmon fishery, which 

 usually starts in February and terminates 

 in June, does not appear to exceed 10 mil- 

 lion pounds. This fishery peaks in early 

 May. The trap fishery along the Nemuro 

 Straits and the Okhotsk Sea peaks in Octo- 

 ber but takes some pinks in late August. 



The 1957 landings include total 

 catches off Honshu and the Pacific coast 

 of Hokkaido. The Honshu landings are be- 

 lieved to include catches from the Japan 

 Sea pink salmon fishery. However, this 

 amount is very small, for, as stated ear- 

 lier, the total landings of this fishery 

 jire estimated not to exceed 10 million 

 pounds annually and by far the greater 

 part of this total is- landed on the Japan 

 Sea coast of Hokkaido, which is not in- 

 cluded in this table. 



Figure 4 shows the 1952-57 salmon 

 landings in graphic form based on figures 

 from table 3. 



I20r 



100- 



80 



T3 



C 



o 



Q. 



60 



40 



20 



Total Landing 



' Pink and Mosu 



Chum, Red, Silver and Kjng 

 J I L 



1952 



1953 



1954 



1955 



1956 



I 



1957 



Figure 4. --Salmon landings in pounds for tiie montlis 



April to August inclusive, 1952-57. 



