of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry merged with parts of the 
Ministry of Commerce and Industry to form a new Ministry of Agriculture 
and Commerce (Nd»shoshd“). In this governmental re-shuffle the Fisheries 
Bureau seems to have been taken over intact by the new ministry. 
Several wartime bureaus established under the Ministry of Agri¬ 
culture and Commerce have had, either simultaneously or successively, 
some concern with fish production, distribution or pricing. Among 
these were: Bureau of Food Control (Shokuryo Kauri-kyoku), Commodity 
Price Bureau (Bukka kyoku), Livelihood Commodity Bureau, Resources 
Bureau (Shizai kyoku) and Recruitment Bureau (Yoin-kyoku). 
Reorganization of Companies and Other Organizations . All phases 
of the fishing industry were subject to close government control prior 
to the war but since 1942 several reorganizations have brou^it still 
closer control. In late 1942 and early 1943 the deep-sea fishing 
industry was reorganized so that only one big enterprise operated in 
these fisheries — the Imperial Fishing Control Company (Teikoku Suisan 
Tosei Kaisha). This company, formed with a capital raised by the lead¬ 
ing fishery companies, lets out boats and gear to four branch companies, 
operates cold storage plants and grant's necessary credits to the branch 
companies. The branch companies — the Northern Pacific Fishing Control 
Company, the Japan-Soviet Fishing Control Company, the Japanese Pelagic 
Fishing Company and the Western Pacific Fishing Control Company — were 
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