cannery was operating in the Okhotsk Sea where normally eight were 
active. ^8 / The production of coastal fisheries has also declined 
despite attempts to keep this production as high as possible. Although 
these fisheries which produce the bulk of the Japanese supply have 
suffered less, the shortages of boats, manpower and fuel have greatly 
reduced the total production. • Added to this has been dissatisfaction 
with the prices established by the government and in recent months the 
fear of destruction by Allied naval and military operations, such as 
air attacks on fishing boats and mines laid in coastal waters. Aquiculture 
production has been encouraged by the government throughout the war years, 
but although no data are available it is unlikely that recent production 
has increased to any considerable extent because of manpower shortages. 
The only data indicating actual supply conditions from the 
consumer end are a few isolated ones giving shipments and distri¬ 
bution of fish in the city of Tokyo for August 1944 and statements 
concerning rations. Table 68 indicates that on a particular day 
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Tokyo received 234 tons of fish which were distributed among approx¬ 
imately 857,000 persons. This quantity of fish is less than one-third 
of the prewar average daily receipts for Tokyo and may possibly represent 
a larger than usual daily shipment. This isolated case would suggest 
a lower overall supply figure for Japan than given above, but undoubtedly 
conditions in Tokyo and other large cities are not typical of the 
18 /It is reported that Jo fishing grounds are being operated in Soviet 
waters in 1945 (in 1939 more than 300). 
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