result of government sponsored mergers, dominated the large scale commer¬ 
cial deep sea fisheries in the immediate prewar yearsi the Nippon Suisan 
Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Marine Products Company) and the Nichiro Gyogyo 
Kabushiki Kaisha (Nichiro Fishing Company)* 
The Nippon Suisan was capitalized at 93 million yen. It not only 
operated all the floating crab canneries in the northern seas but controlled 
three-fourths of the steam trawler industry, most of the Antarctic and 
local whaling and 20 percent of the exports of marine products. 
The Nichiro Company, capitalized at 87 million yen, controlled vir¬ 
tually all the salmon fishing in Soviet waters and through its various 
subsidiaries controlled most of the rest of the salmon fishing industry 
as well as cod fishing and the shore-based crab fishing. 
Not only fishing but a large part of the processing, particularly 
the canning of marine products, was carried on by these two companies or 
their subsidiaries. 
The Mitsubishi Shoji K, K. (Mitsubishi Trading Company) was the 
leading firm in exports. 
At the top of the fishery companies one can distinguish among 
others the well-known family firms of Mitsui and Mitsubishi. The Man¬ 
churian Heavy Industries Development Corporation is the principal share¬ 
holder of Nippon Suisan K. K* 
Associations . All aspects of the industry — fishing, pro¬ 
cessing and marketing — were coordinated into associations. The fishery 
organizations were coordinated through the Dai Nippon Suisankai (the 
Fisheries Societies of Japan), the Teikoku Suisankai (Imperial Fishery 
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