M. SASAKI. 
Number showing 
net in map 
Name of net 
Catch (1913) 
2 
Ko-ushi 
Kan 
10,000 
3 
Makaridashi 
5,000 (but 14,000 in average for the late 3 years 
4 
Wakura 
5,000 
5 
Natsunaka 
1,500 (5,170 in average for the late 3 years) 
6 
Maenoami 
do. 
8 
Yarigasaki 
7,000 
9 
Goshanomiya 
7,000 
The average catches are much greater than those of the before mentioned 
coast. Ko-7isIii and Makaridashi which are superior to the others, have a 
model situation, facing towards the tidal current and having the deepest bed 
of the Yokata valley in front. The reference of the catch to the various condi- 
tions of the fishing place, agree in the main with those of the before mentioned 
coast and show such an aspect as to verify the former explanation. 
c) Hiini coast (PI. Ill, fig. i). This is the whole coast westward from 
Ota village, which is the shallowest, and of which the sea bed has the most 
gradual incline along the coasts of Toyama Prefecture. And the 50-F-line 
is generally off the shore as far as 2 or 3 miles, and only on this coast are 
there found many Molluscan shells. The shore consists mainly of sand, and 
the water is not so clear as that of Namerikawa. 
As this coast is the original part of Toyama Prefecture where the Fukubc- 
ami was used, there are many of these nets fixed there. Drag-nets as well as 
seines from land are also found there, being used as the ordinary fishing im- 
plements of the fishermen. 
It is not only that the Holarii-ika has been never caught on this coast and 
that the Fukitbe-aini are only used there to catch other fish such as sardine- 
allies, but the fishermen have no knowledge of the Hotarn-ika. When I went 
there in May 1913, I asked the fishermen whether they had sometimes observed 
on this coast the cuttle-fish which discharged light. They answered that they 
knew well about a kind which they called Chochin-ika (lantern cuttle-fish). So 
I went in their boat to the fishing place on a dark night, and observed there the 
