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Material of the Hull Wood. 



Date of launching IQO/- 



This is a transport boat in which a refrigerating machine 

 is provided, but after completing various experiments for the 

 space of three years, the Government decided to encourage the 

 the use of refrigerators by granting subsidies. It is therefore 

 expected that in the near future transports of this type will be 

 greatly increased. 



The Fishing Gear and Method. 



The progress made in the fishing gear and method within 

 recent years is something striking. I'o cite an instance, the 

 whaling method was supplanted by the steamship whaling and 

 by the deep sea schooner whaling while much progress may be 

 evinced by the extensive use of such nets as yellow-tail pound- 

 net, square (Kaku-ami) and purse-seine. We will herewith give 

 explanations in regard to drawings and models exhibited in the 

 present Exhibition. 



(i) Whaling. 



Drawings, Statistics Exhibited by the Oriental Whaling 



Company. 



Whales caught in Japan are such as the right hump-back^ 

 supphur dike, sperm whales etc. Whaling has become prosperous 

 within the last four or five years. 



Some 1400 whales are oiught every year valued at about 

 2,000,000 yen. The methods of whaling are of two kinds. 



(i) Coast Whaling and (2) Deep-sea Whaling. 



According to the former method steamers of some hundred 

 tons pro voided with whaling guns and harpoons are used. When 

 whales are caught they are brought to the stations and dis- 



