Society or the National Association of Fisheries) and the Central Asso¬ 
ciation for Fishermen*s Cooperative Societies. The companies engaged 
in manufacturing, particularly those producing for the export market, were 
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united into such associations as the Canned Food Association of Japan, 
Canned Crab Packers and Manufacturers* Association, the Fish Meal Pro¬ 
ducers and Exporters Association, etc. 
These associations, government-sponsored and operating under a 
Fisheries Association Law promulgated in 1921, provided one more point 
where the government exercised control* 
Wartime Reorganization of the Industry 
All phases of the fishing industry were subject to government control 
prior to the war but since 1942 several reorganizations have brought much 
closer control. 
In late 1942 and early 1943 the deep sea fishing industry was re¬ 
organized so that there is only one big enterprise operating in these 
fisheries — the Imperial Fishing Control Company (Teikoku Suisan Tosei 
Kaisha). This company, formed with a capital raised by the leading fishing 
companies, lets out boats and gear to the four branch companies, operates 
cold storage plants and grants necessary credits to the branch companies — 
the Northern Pacific Fishing Control Company, the Japan-Soviet Fishing 
Control Company, the Japanese Pelagic Fishing Company and the Western 
Pacific Control Company. The present relation of these branch companies, 
which were formed by the merger and realignment of the large existing 
companies, to such parent companies as Mitsui and Mitsubishi is not clear. 
(For earlier relationships of the prewar companies see pages 10-11.) 
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