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produced primarily for export. Only a email percent of the tangles 
and laver entered into foreign trade; China. Kwantung and Manchuria 
(Manchukuo) were the chief markets for these products. 
rish Meal . In recent prewar years Japan produced from 
60,000 - 100,000 metric tons annually for export markets. More than 
half of the exports were shipped to the United States with European 
countries (principally the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Germany) 
the next most important markets (Appendix B), 
Fish and Whale Oil . Exports of fish oils (including 
hardened fish oil) amounted to about 60,000 to 100,000 tons in 1937 and 
1938 (Appendix 3), In addition most of Antarctic whale oil production 
was sent abroad, in 1938-39 about 70,000 tons of the 80,600 tons produced 
being exported* 
Jresh and Frozen Fish . These exports represented a minor 
part of the total trade in marine products. The United States took about 
half of the quantity and slightly more than half of the value of these 
exports. Seed oysters, live goldfish, frozen fish livers, frozen tuna 
and swordfish were the products exported to the United States. Nearby 
€hina and Kw&ntung were the other important markets for fresh and frozen 
fish (See Appendix 3), 
Imports . Japanese imports of fish and fishery products were 
relatively small compared to the total production of fisheries based 
on Japan proper, and were also considerably less than the exports of 
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