(1) in Hokkaido, the base-area for the northern fisheries of the Okhotsk 
Sea and the Kuril e-Kamchatka area; (2) in east-central Honshu the base 
area for the northern part of the great Scombroid range of the warmer 
Pacific waters; and (3) Kyushu, the base area for the Yellow Sea and 
the East China Sea trawl fisheries. 
The important fishing ports of Japan are shown in Figure 7 and 
listed in Table 10 by prefecture. It should be noted, however, that 
many of the productive coastal areas are unrepresented here because 
their "ports” are merely small villages on bays and protected beaches. 
Of the ports shown on the map the following four can be regarded as 
the chief ports: Hakodate, Choshi, Shimonoseki and Nagasaki. Only 
Chrshi, which supplies the metropolitan area of Tokyo, can be described 
as a "fishing harbor” in the fullest sense of the word. Tokyo, Nagoya, 
Osaka and Kobe, the large commercial ports of Japan, are important to 
the fisheries as destinations for aquatic products and as transshipment 
points rather than as fishing ports. 
Sven in the more important fishery villages, wharves*docks and 
piers are the exception. IThere they do exist, however, they are nearly 
all of well-constructed masonry. Only in the northern ports of Hokkaido 
and Karafuto are there the soon-dilapidated piers of piling, weather- 
t 
beaten timber docks, and wooden sheds reminiscent of New England or 
British Columbia fishing villages. 
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