the fishing grounds, operate for one day, cind return to port in the evening. On these boats 

 nothing in particular is done to the catch aboard the vessel, the fish simply being carried on 

 deck back to the base. However, on the larger harpoon boats the cruises are for about 1 week, 

 auid on the longline boats based at Takao, where the base and the operating area are widely 

 separated in distance, a rather large number of days is required per cruise. On such fishing 

 boats the captured spearfish have their snouts and tail firs cut off and they are wrapped in sul- 

 phite paper or cloth and stowed in ice before being brought back to the market. 



When the fish are landed at the market they are bought by middle men at auction. The 

 buyers immediately cut off the heads, gut the fish, cut off the fins, and place the fish in boxes 

 for transport to the various areas of consumption. The consumption of spearfish in Taiwan is 

 about 20 to 30 per cent of the total catch, the rest being exported to Japan or to Manchuria and 

 Korea. The prices, of course, fluctuate with the season and economic conditions, but throughout 

 1935 the average price at Keelung was 42 yen per 100 kin. At the end of the year and beginning 

 of the year the prices are highest, there being ordinarily a gradual decline in price away from 

 this period. Depending on the season there are fluctuations of some extent, but the striped marlin 

 is the highest priced, followed by the white marlin, the black marlin, and the sailfish in that 

 order. The broadbill is very cheap. Hardly any shortnosed spearfish are brought in and they 

 have no particular nanae, but those handled at the Suo fishing market are said to be all treated 

 the same as the sailfish. 



APPENDIX 



(1) Table of scientific names and Japanese names: 



Scientific names 



Istiophorus orientalis 

 Makaira marlina 

 M. mazara 

 M. mitsukurii 

 Tetrapturus angustirostris 

 Xiphias gladius 



(2) Table of Japanese and Formosan names: 



Japanese naimes 



akakajiki ( makajiki ) 

 ku rokajiki ( mazara ) 

 shirokajiki 

 tsun ( nnekajiki) 

 bar en ( bashokajiki ) 

 furaikajiki 

 makajiki ( akakajiki ) 

 mazara ( kurokajiki ) 

 mekajiki (tsun) 



Japanese names 



bashokajiki (baren) 

 shirokajiki (shirokawakajiki) 

 kurokajiki (kurokawakajiki) 

 makajiki (akakajiki) 

 furaikajiki 

 mekajiki (tsun) 



Formosan names* 



none 



* Translator's note: As the translator is unable to supply the pronunciation of these names 

 current in Fornnosa and translations of them are not particularly meaningful, they have been 

 given here in their original form. 



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