Year. 



Number of Doats. 



Number of Men. 



Output. 



1900. 



3,880 



23,637 



Yen. 

 1,829,354 



1901. 



4,077 



22 212 



1,874,293 



1902. 



3,719 



21,014 



1,959,264 



1903. 



3,326 



17,896 



1,949,264 



1904. 



3,624 



21,080 



1,959,087 



1905. 



6,484 



42,602 



4,159,979 



1906. 



6,628 



45,909 



4,451,756 



1907. 



6,973 



51,110 



6,127,903 



1908. 



7,438 



55,281 



8,280,220 



2. The Regulations for Encouragement adopted 

 by the Government and Local Prefectures. 



In 1897, the Government issued the Regulations pertaining to 

 the Encouragement of the Deep Sea Fishery, whereby upon 

 schooners of occidental type over 30 tons engaged in fishery, 

 subsidies were conferred, as a result of which the number of fishing 

 boats of this type was considerably increased so that in 190 3 the 



figures stood as follows :- 



Whalers 

 Sealers 



.2 268 tons. 



22 1622 ,, 



Cod-fish and Shark Angling Boats 



,718 

 .598 



Bonito Angling Drifters 12 



In 1904 the Regulations for the Encouragement of Deep Sea 

 Fishery were revised, as an effect of which, boats of occidental 

 type of over i O tons were subsidized while ships newly built under 

 the control of the authorities according to the plan ordained by 

 the Government were to be protected by the Funds for the En- 

 couragement of Building New Ships given in proportion to the 



