Hod and line angling ( ippon zuri ) for bonito was carried on by 
large crews of fishermen who lined one side of the vessel, standing 
a few inches above the water on a narrow rack. When a shoal was sighted, 
livebait which was carried in tanks was thrown out to slow up the 
movement of the fish. As the bonito bit, the livebait was gradually 
replaced by lures. The biting was usually over in less than a half 
hour. The fish, piled on the deck during the operations, were then 
stowed below in the fish wells and the boat moved on to search another 
shoal. If the biting had been good several thousand fish were caught 
in a few minutes. 
Trawling and "Bottom Dragging ". The capture of bottom 
feeding species, chiefly Sciaena species and flatfish but also sea 
breams, sharks and others, by means of trawling was really of two 
rather distinct types as operated by the Japanese. The first was that 
by large modern vessels operating otter trawls; the second that of 
considerably smaller boats using simple drag nets. The term "trawling" 
sometimes applies only to the former, but at other times is used to 
include both. Table 23 gives the official production statistics. 
Trawling . The large trawlers operated chiefly in 
the East China Seas and the Yellow Sea ad though some operated in the 
South China Sea and, in the years immediately preceding the war, a few 
worked in foreign waters (Table 8). The waters of the East China Sea, 
the Yellow Sea auad the South China Sea were divided into districts 
which have been carefully mapped according to productivity. Konda 35/ 
reports that of the 20 fishing districts of the East China and Yellow 
357 Seiji Konda, Geography of the Marine Industry of Jap an. 1936. 
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16-031 Puo bu 
