Ill ADMINISTRATION, CONTROL AND ORGANIZATION OF THE INDUSTRY i/ 
Pre-War Period 
Government Administration and Control . The Imperial government 
ad m i ni stered the fishing industries of the coastal waters, the high seas 
and the interior waters through the Fisheries Bureau (Suisan Kyoku), one 
of six bureaus of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Norinsho). 
This bureau regulated and licensed certain fisheries such as trawling, 
wh al i ng, factory ship operations and fur sealing. It supervised and 
aided the fishery associations and societies; it was active in fishery 
research, in conservation measures and in education. The compilation and 
publication of national fishery statistics was sIbo carried on by this 
central bureau. 
Even prior to the war there was hardly any phase of the fishing 
industry which was not subject to control, either direct or indirect by 
the Imperial government. In addition to the direct regulation of certain 
fisheries as mentioned above, the government exercised control through 
the central associations of the various fishery organizations. These 
central associations included associations to which companies dealing with 
certain phases of the industry were forced to belong as well as the 
central associations of fishing societies and cooperatives. In order to 
further centralize its control the government also sponsored, in the 
immediate prewar period, the amalgamation of many small fishing companies 
to form large corporations. 
lj See pages 166-184 for further details, for prewar period and pages 198- 
209 for war period. . 9 - 
16-031 P27 
