TABLE 3 
Important Fish Landed in Japan 
1. iwashi — sardine, pilchard, anchovy 
2. nishin — herring 
3. tara ■— cod 
4. saba mackerel 
5. sake — salmon 
6. masu — trout 
7. buri — yellowtail (amberfish) 
8. maguro — tuna 
9. aji — yellow mackerel 
10. karei and hi ram e — flounders 
11. katsud — bonito 
12. tai —■ porgy, sea bream, red snapper 
13. fuka — shark 
14. samma — mackerel — pike 
15. bora — mullet 
16. tobi-uo — flying fish 
17. * konoshiro 
18. sawara — Spanish mac'kerel 
19. * kurodai 
20. wagasagi — surf smelt 
21. * ayu 
22. unagi — eel 
23. koi — carp 
24. k&jiki — spearfish and swordfish 
Source: Japan’s Fisheries Industry 1939 (Special issue of 
the Japan Times and Mail, 1939). 
* No English equivalent. Kurodai is one of the sea breams. 
Ayu is a small fish resembling trout very popular in Japan. 
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