TABLE 1 
Total "Hah" Catch of Japan Proper, 1934 - 1940 ^ 
(1000 metric tone) 
Coastal Catch 
1934 
1935 
1936 
1937 
1938 
1939 
1940 
Fish 
2,227 
1,929 
2,143 
1,854 
1,685 
1,745 
1,511 
Shellfish 
Crustaceans and 
180 
205 
152 
141 
117 
113 
176 
Mollusc8 
190 
136 
158 
153 
212 
228 
227 
Total 
"Deep Sea" Catch £/ 
2,597 
2,270 
2,453 
2,148 
2,014 
2,086 
1,914 
Home waters 
727 
815 
975 
862 
788 
785 
793 
Korean waters 
65 
no 
48 
36 
24 
18 
n.a. 
Formosan waters 
- 
- 
- 
1 
- 
2 
n.a. 
Kwantung waters 4 
South Sea Mandated 
6 
8 
5 
5 
4 
3 
area n.a. 
n.a. 
2 
4 
4 
3 
n.a. 
Soviet waters £/ 
108 
75 
86 
83 
72 
77 
n.a. 
Trawling 
52 
53 
52 
50 
38 
36 
34 
Total 
956 
1,069 
1,171 
1,041 
931 
925 
n.a. 
Ataiculture i/ 
100 
122 
121 
137 
116 
n.a. 
n.a. 
Grand Total 
3,653 
3,451 
3,745 
3,326 
3,061 
n.a. 
—/ n.a. 
n.a. - not available 
a/ These figures represent the total production of fish, shellfish, crusta¬ 
ceans and molluscs, i.e. the total "fish" catch which could he used as food. 
Seaweed, whales and seals are excluded as is the production of K&rafutc 
waters and floating canneries for which catch data are not available. The 
figures indicated as not available are Insignificant except those for 1940. 
The totsle are made from all available official figures. Hot only do the 
total figures represent production, but are thought to almost approximate 
domestic consumption. Although Japan had sizable fishing exports in prewar 
years these are thought to be offset here by the omission of the production 
of floating canneries, the crab production of Soviet waters and the fish 
imports from colonial areas (chiefly Korea). Although exports loom large 
in Japan's trade by value the actual volume is small as compared to the total 
catch. Domestic consumption during the immediate prewar years appears to 
have been about 3 million metric tons. 
b/ Includes only the catch in these waters from operations based on Japan 
proper. In the fisheries of the Russian waters there are land bases on 
Soviet territory,but the boats e&il each season from Japan. The fisheries 
listed here are often called the "pelagic" or "deep sea" fisheries of Japan 
although many of the operations are not deep sea fishin 6 . 
cj Does not include crab production. 
d/ Excluding amanori (seaweed), goldfish, pearl oyster, pearl shell and 
^other". 
ej Estimated at 3,130 for 1939 and 2,950 for 1940. 
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16-031 P20 bu 
