the motorized drag-netters, 99 percent of the crah pack produced on 
floating canneries, 40 percent of the whaling with floating factories 
and 76 percent of the near-aea whaling, 50 percent of the ice output of 
Japan, 61 percent of the refrigerating capacity and 20 percent of the 
total Japanese exports of marine products. 
At Tobata the company had a modern fishing base with wireless trans¬ 
mitting station for communicating with its scattered fleet. Its main 
office was in Tokyo, hut its 50 branches were scattered throughout Japan, 
Korea, Formosa and China. 
Nichiro Fishery, Company (Ni chirp Gyp gyp K. g,) . This company was 
the other large fishery combine, said to have been controlled by the 
Mitsubishi interests but also having among its shareholders the Mitsui 
Bussan. Capitalized at 54 million yen in 1940 this company controlled 
the operations in Soviet waters, the northern Kuriles and the floating 
salmon canneries. Three of its main subsidiaries were the Hokkai Canning 
and Warehousing Company which manufactured cans and handled warehousing, 
the Pacific Fishery Company which worked floating salmon canneries and 
the Kuriles Aquatic Company which carried on fishing in the northern 
Kuriles. Salmon was the mainstay of this company although it also pro¬ 
duced crab, cod and other species of the northern area. In 1939 it 
operated 34 canning plants and 55 refrigerators in this area in addition 
to several large-scale refrigerators located in Hokkaido, northern Honshu 
and in Tokyo. 
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16-031 1*209 bu 
