OBSERVATIONS ON HOTARU-IKA WATASENIA SCINTILLANS, 
lOI 
Number showing 
net in map 
Name of net 
Catch 
Number showing 
net in map 
Name of net 
Catch 
I 
Ivuzu 
Kan 
12,500 
5 
Okitakase 
Kan 
2,100 
2 
Dogata 
4,000 
6 
Aogake 
1,950 
3 
Nakajima-atari 
1,300 
7 
Fukaguri 
1,800 
4 
Takase^Uchitakase) 
1,800 
8 
Kawanakajima 
2,500 
If the table be compared with the map, it will easily be seen that the 
catch of Fitkube-auii of this coast is in direct proportion to the degree of its 
approach to the JOO-F-line. It is to be noticed that the net Kozii with the 
depressions on both sides, reaches in the amount caught nearly to that of the 
Fh kube-aini at Nam e r i kawa. 
The Hayatsuki river generally contains a very small amount of water, so 
that its influence upon the net Nakajima-atari, seems to be very small. 
3. Ikui Region (PI. HI, fig. 6). 
This region is the eastern part extending from Kyoden-mura on the whole 
coast of Toyama Prefecture. The coast is very deep and the tidal current is 
very rapid, especially so at the eastern coast from Kurobe river. The fishermen 
of this coast say that the current coming from Noto Peninsula, in some seasons, 
runs against the Point of Ikuji and it is divided by the point into 2 currents, 
one of which goes back toward Ishida-mura, making a whirl-current off Ikuji, 
and the other goes on its course to Echigo. There are at present (1913) 
only 4 of the ordinary Fukjibe-ami fixed, these all being situated westward 
from Ikuji-cho, and from what the fishermen say, the coast eastward from 
Ikuji-sho in not suitable for fixing the ordinary Fiikubc-ami, for the tidal 
current is so rapid, that the net is driven sideways. The following table 
shows the average of the catch for the last 3 years (191 1-1913). 
Fishing place 
Number showing 
net in map 
Name of net 
Catch 
Off Ikuji 
Off the boundary l)etween Ishida 
and Kyoden 
Off Kyoden 
do. 
I 
2 
3 
4 
Sainokami 
Osliimanoami 
Matsunoatari 
Gakenata 
Kan 
1,500 
400 
800 
600 j 
