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FCRENCRD 
Part I of this report contains a brief overall survey of the 
Japanese prewar fishing industry, a summary of the wartime conditions 
and the administration and organization of the industry, and recommen¬ 
dations pertinent to Military Government administration. Part II 
provides the background material basic to a full understanding of 
Japanese fishing operations and the detailed planning of actual admin¬ 
istration. Most of this part discusses the prewar industry, but the 
last section pulls together all the available information concerning 
wartime conditions. 
Most of the data presented were taken from official and semi¬ 
official Japanese sources. Not only were errors and inconsistencies 
frequently detected within individual volumes, but many data from 
different sources, supposedly reporting on the same subject, are irre¬ 
concilable. In view of this it should be recognized that many errors 
are known to occur in the report, but it is believed that the general 
picture presented and most of the details are accurate. 
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