II FISEING OPERATIONS: FISEERMEN, BOATS, PORTS, METHODS AND PRODUCTION 
On the basis of actual operations Japanese fishing may he 
divided into the following groups, each of which has certain special 
characteristics: (l) Coastal Fisheries; (2) Aquiculture; (3) Deep-Sea 
Fisheries in Home Waters; (4) Trawling; (5) Northern Fisheries and 
(6) Special Fisheries. Each of these will be considered in turn, 
pointing out the methods and equipment of the operations, the species 
caught, etc. But because this classification lists some fisheries 
which are not mutually exclusive and because some types of data are 
not available by this grouping, a general discussion dealing with 
fishermen, boats, ports and the catch as landed by prefectures precedes 
the discussion by fisheries. 
Fishermen 
Number . Approximately lj million Japanese are directly engaged 
in the fishing industries, i.e. fishing, aquiculture and the processing 
of marine products. It has been estimated that 20 percent of the people 
are directly or indirectly dependent on the fishing industry. 
In fishing itself 1,027,170 people were employed in 1940 — 
624,739 full time and 402,431 part-time; in aquiculture 127,813 were 
employed of whom 23,396 were full time workers and 104,417 part-time 
(Table 4). 20/ Of those employed in fishing and aquiculture together 
about 45 percent were part-time fishermen, most of these depending 
upon farming for part of their livelihood. 
20 / A later figure, am estimate for 1941, fixes the number of "marine 
laborers" as 700,000. The higher figure above appears to arise out of 
differences in classification. The 700,000 approximates the total 
number engaged full-time in fishing and aquiculture. 
• * v 
-42- 
16-031 P64 *>u 
