Table 6. --Landings in Japan (fronn Ministry of 

 Agriculture and Forestry statistics 

 for the tuna longline fishery) 



Note: 1. The index number takes 1930 as 100. 



2. The reasons for the decline in 1934 and 1935 



are unknown. 



3. The sharp drop in the catch in 1941 is assumed 



to be due to a decrease in the number of 

 vessels fishing because of the war. 



The above figures represent only the catch of tunas, but in addition there were 

 3, 000, 000 to 4, 000, 000 pounds of spearfishes and an unknown but large amount of sharks. As 

 for the situation outside of Japan proper, in Formosa the Government-General began investiga- 

 tions in 1913 and continued collecting statistics regularly thereafter. The catch for that region 

 is shown in the following table. 



Table 7. --Tuna longline catch in Formosa 



(Formosan Fishery Statistics, 1936) 



Note: (1) Converted from kin to pounds at the rate of 1 

 kin = 1, 32 pounds. 

 (2) Figures in this table are not actual values but 

 deduced values, however, their accuracy is 

 rather high. 



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