IV SUGGESTIONS FCR MILITARY GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION 
Overall Recommendations 
Policy principles for the Japanese fisheries during the period 
of military government are: §/ 
1. Japan should produce such fishery products as are required 
for domestic consumption. 
2. The military government should assist in reestablishing pro¬ 
duction facilities to the fishing and processing industries and facilities 
for the distribution of fishery products in order to meet domestic con¬ 
sumption requirements. 
3. Fishery production for export should be undertaken only if 
facilities, equipment, gear and manpower available are needed less urgently 
to meet domestic consumption requirements than for produets to (a) supply 
United Nations with animal proteins and oil or (b) secure foreign exchange 
far essential imports. 
4. The affiliations of the Japanese fishing, fish-processing and 
fish-exporting industries with large combines should be severed. In 
general, there should be wide distribution of ownership, management and 
control within the fishing industry and allied industries. 
5* Japanese fishing near the American continents, island possess¬ 
ions of the United States and in strategic areas should be prohibited. 
The prohibited zones should be sufficiently wide to assure effective 
enforcement. 
6/ These policy principles which conform to those submitted to SWNCC by 
the State Department are basic for the entire period of military occupa¬ 
tion. Operations which are started under these principles by military 
government authorities should be continued, with modifications as the 
conditions warrant, by any subsequent allied control authority. 
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