Although coastal fishing, drag net fishing by small boats, and 
tuna and bonito fishing did not come under this reorganization, in 1943 
these were all to be reorganized with coastal fishing to be placed under 
" a central fishing federation". £/ Thus, by these reorganizations fish 
production was brought under centralized control. Distribution and prices, 
as already indicated, were also controlled. 
During the war changes in the administrative organization of the 
government affecting fisheries or the distribution of marine products in 
one way or another were numerous but full details are not available. In 
October and November 1943 the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry merged 
with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to form a Ministry of Agriculture 
dnd Commerce (Noshosho). In this xeshuffle the Fisheries Bureau seems 
to have been taken over intact by the new Ministry. New wartime bureaus, 
established under the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, however, have 
simultaneously or successively dealt with some phase of fish production, 
distribution and pricing. Included in these are the Bureau of Food 
Control, the Commodity Price Bureau (Bukka Kyoku), the Livelihood Commodity 
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Bureaitt, and the Resources Bureau (Skizai Kyoku). 
s / Although no further definite statement concerning this reorganization 
is available there are indications that it took place. 
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