leased to the Japanese numbered 349, less than 50 percent of the total 
number although in earlier years Japan had a much larger share; in 1924, 
for example, it rented 88 percent of the toted number. According to 
Japanese statistics in the period 1934 - 1939 Japan averaged 76 percent 
of the rent and 57 percent of the salmon catch from slightly less than 
half of the lots and 40 percent of the rent and 45 percent of the crab 
catch from about one-third of the lots (Table 26). The areas of Japanese 
operations, both fishing and processing, are chiefly along the coasts of 
Kamchatka but some are along the Okhotsk and Primorsk coasts of Siberia 
(Table 27 and Figure 8). 44/ 
Floating Factory Fisheries . Floating factory 
operations, concentrated on salmon and crab, were carried on chiefly 
in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas north of 51° N. and beyond the three 
mile limit of territorial waters. 45/ Most of the fishing was near the 
coasts of Kamchatka (both east and west), but some of the vessels worked 
out into Bering Sea. 46/ In recent prewar years 6-11 large salmon 
factory vessels and 4-9 crab factory vessels, each attended by 
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auxiliary ships, were operating in this fishery and more than 6,000 
44/ Japanese operations in the waters of the Primorsk region of Siberia 
and in the waters of Sakhalin are very limited. These areas are fished 
almost exclusively by the Hussians. The Japanese, however, had nine lots 
in the Primorsk region in 1939 (Table 27). 
45/ The mothership system of salmon fishing was limited by official 
regulations to areas north of 51° N., thus excluding these floating 
canneries from the coastal waters of Hokkaido, Karafuto and the Kuriles# 
46/ Since 1930 several crab canneries have operated in Bristol Bay, 
Alaska and in 1937 and 1938 the catching of salmon in these waters 
aroused American fishermen (see page 188). 
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