The production in 1936 was about equally divided between the 
three islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, on the one hand, and 
Hokkaido and Karafuto on the other. One source giving slightly different 
figures than those in Table 55 reports that of the 105,902 tons of fish 
oils produced in 1936, 53,700 tons were produced in the three islands, 
46,400 tons in Hokkaido and 5,800 tons in Karafuto. 78/ 
Sardines provided the bulk of the marine oil production, about 
three-fourths of the production by value (Table 56). The largest pert of 
this production is from whole fish in reduction plants where meal is a 
joint product* 
TABLE 56 
Production of Pish Oils by Type in Japan 
(yen) 
Year 
Total 
Sardine 
Herring 
Cod 
Whale S/ Shark 
Others 
1934 
8,702,511 
6,416,967 
358,551 
375,857 
408,137 431,096 
711,903 
1935 
8,792,502 
6,687,986 
165,421 
471,265 
545,921 724,479 
197,431 
1936 21,527,114 
16,112,027 
361,868 
1,006,645 
2,371,291 1,026,241 
649,042 
1937 18,001,508 
14*272,777 
170,818 
849,508 
1,151,017 947,754 
609,834 
1938 
13,138,868 
9,700,667 
372,628 
641,250 
892,373 1,063,795 
468,155 
Source: Japan-Manchukuo Yearbook . 1940. 
a/ Does not include oil from Antarctic catch. 
Complete information concerning the location of fish oil plants 
ig not available but plants were known to be producing in the following 
places: Hakodate and Sapporo in Hokkaido, Kashiwazaki (Niigata Prefecture), 
TJbe (Yamaguchi Prefecture), Pukuoka and Omuda (Fukuoka Prefecture), 
787 Japan 1 s Fisheries Industry 1939 (Special issue of Japan Times and 
Mail, 1939). These figures do not include whale oil. 
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