Salmon Canning. About one-third of the Japanese salmon catch is 
canned to provide an annuel pack of more than two million cases during 
the /ears 1534 - 1539 (Table 47 and AppendixA), This is almost one- 
fourth of the world's commercial salmon Back. 
i 
Approximately one-half of the salmon pack was from canneries in 
the Soviet area and about 12 - 15 percent from floating canneries. The 
rest was divided among plants in the Kuriles, Hokkaido, Karafuto and 
northern Honshu (Table 47). The location of canneries operating in the 
Russian area and the northern Kuriles and of floating canneries is shown 
in Figure 8. Hokkaido plants are reported in Hakodate, Nenruro and 
Kitami. On Honshu the largest concentration of salmon canning plants was 
in the area around the city of Aomori on the Gulf of Mutsu. Table 47 
shows a total of 94 plants operating in 1936; in 1933, 99 were operating. 65 / 
TABLE 47 
Japanese Canned Salmon Pack, 1936 
Number of Canneries 
Operated 
Soviet Waters 
(Kamchatka and Okhotsk) 
Floating Canneries 
Karafuto 
Kuriles: 
Northern Kuriles 
Etorofu 
Japan proper 
Hokkaido 
Tohoku (northern Honshu) 
Total 
22 
3 
9 
11 
7 
24 
18_ 
94 
Production 
(cases) 
1,094,797 
281,540 
19,046 
529,709 
77,338 
127,446 
163,017 
2,292,893 
Source; "The Fishing Industry of Japan," Office of Strategic 
Services, June 1942. 
65/ Appendix A gives the details of the 1936 production, i.e. output by 
factories and the breakdown by type over a period of years. 
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