The fish taken are all generally large for albacore, most of 

 them weighing about 15 to 19 kilograms. 



2. Areas of the Middle Latitudes 



Throughout this sea area as a whole the data are very scarce and 

 scattered. The only places in which there are some concentrations of 

 data are around the Ogasawara Islands and Marcus Island, in Philippine 

 waters, and in the northwest part of the South China Sea. We have 

 no records at all of captures of albacore from the South China Sea and 

 Philippine waters. In the other areas, there are no high catch rates, 

 but a certain number of albacore always appear in the catch. The fish 

 are generally large, the majority of them being over 19 kilograms. 



The following table gives the comparison with the catch rate cited 

 by Nakamura (1951). J./ 



Table 3. --Comparison of prewar 

 and postwar catch rates 



Notes: 1. The figures are catch rates. 

 2. The "postwar" data are those 

 of this atlas and include the 

 prewar data. 



3. Tropical Seas (10°N. to 15°S.) 



The data are rather generally distributed between 1 N. and 8 N. 

 in the longitudes of 150°E. to 170°E. and between 5°N. and 9°N. at 170°E. 

 to 180 . There is also somewhat of a concentration of data for the waters 

 east and southeast of Mindanao; in the Southern Hemisphere there are scat- 

 tered data for the Banda Sea and the waters around the Molucca Islands, 

 «ind there is again somewhat of a concentration in waters around the 

 Solonnon Islands. 



— Nakamura, Hiroshi, Nankai Regional Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory, Report No. 1, 1951. 



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