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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



During the season of 1923-24 the total production of fish and 

 fishery products in Vladivostok, Amur and its estuary, Okhotsk, 

 western Kamchatka, and Chukotsk-Anadyr was as follows: 



Item 



Pounds 



Value 



Salmon: 



Salted by Russian method 



Salted by Japanese method 



Frozen ' 



Caviar, Russian method 



Caviar, Japanese method 



Herring: 



Salted by Russian method 



Salted by Japanese method 



Fresh 



Miscellaneous fish, oil, and fertilizer 



Miscellaneous canned fish (762,000 cases). 



32, 

 193, 



20, 

 2, 



4, 



993, 707 

 336, 551 

 171,046 

 932, 132 

 900, 127 



387, 118 

 382, 766 

 339, 375 

 353, 620 

 680, 538 



$1,598,975 



5, 506, 500 

 698, 250 

 933, 800 

 542, 800 



234, 500 



15, 900 



464, 830 



1, 928, 477 



6, 052, 500 



Total 425,476, 



17,976,532 



1 Probably salmon. 



According to the data of the customshouse in Hakodate, the market 

 value of these products from the Russian far eastern waters in 1924 

 that entered the Japanese market amounted to 40,137,000 yen, the 

 cost price of which was 15,415,000 yen. Of this amount Japan con- 

 sumed products valued at 21,727,000 ven. The balance was exported 

 as follows : To England, 8,850,000 yen; to the United States, 1,500,000 

 yen; to China, 3,235,000 yen; and to other countries, 4,825,000 yen. 



Of the total catch of fish in 1924 of 350,267,000 pounds, 278,047,000 

 pounds, or 79 per cent, went to Japan, and the remaining 21 per cent 

 went to Russia and other markets. 



The catch of all fish for 1922-23 was 432,055,356 pounds ; in 1923-24 

 it was 515,166,654 pounds; but in 1924-25 it was only 268,778,285 

 pounds, owing to the poor run of keta and gorbuscha. 3 The values 

 of the Japanese and Russian shares of these catches at the prices 

 prevailing in 1913 were as follows: 



Japanese share Russian share 



1922-23 $5,210,500 $4,665,500 



1923-24..: 6,701,500 5,933,500 



1924-25 5,832,500 4,093,000 



RUSSIAN FAR EASTERN WATERS 



This region has a coast line of 12,000 miles along the shores of the 

 Japan, Okhotsk, and Bering Seas. The fishing industry in this region 

 plays a prominent role, though its commercial development is of 

 recent origin. The industry supplies the needs of the local popula- 

 tion, for a large portion of which fishing is the sole means of livelihood, 

 and furnishes an ever-increasing amount of fish and fishery products 

 for export. 



Russian far eastern waters are renowned for their rich fauna, 

 exceeding in quantity and quality that of the northern part of the 

 Atlantic Ocean. One hundred and sixteen species in the northern 

 regions of the Japan Sea have been reported, 121 species in the 

 Okhotsk Sea, and 165 in the Bering Sea. 



3 Taken from Foreign Trade (a weekly published by the Commissariat of Trade, Moscow), 1926, No. 10 

 (172), pp. 10-12. 



