APPENDIX E 
INDUSTRIES RELATED TO FISHING WHICH WILL BE CRITICAL DURING PERIOD 
OF MILITARY GOVERNMENT 
Fish Net Manufacture 
Fish netting will he one of the basic needs in rehabilitating 
the Japanese fisheries. Daring the war period there has been a scarcity 
of nets, but with the revival of textile production Japan can provide 
all of its needs of this item. A controlling factor will be the supply 
of raw materials, particularly cotton. 
The largest part of the netting used for fish nets in prewar years 
was made by factories centered in Mie Prefecture. The chief fish net 
manufacturing companies in the order of their sixe are believed to have 
been: 1/ 
1. J. Yamamoto Fishing Net Manufacturing Company. 
Kuwana, Mie Prefecture. 
Branch office in Nagoya. 
2. Hirata Fishing Net Manufacturing Company 
Tomisuhara, Ise (Mie Prefecture) 
3. Mie Net Manufacturing Company (Miye Seimo Gosh Kaisha) 
Yokkaichi (Mie Prefecture) 
4. Amikan Fishing Net Manufacturing Company 
Tomida, Ise (Mie Prefecture) 
This company manufactured fishing nets and twine, Manila 
rope and twine, etc. 
5. Ondo Fishing Net Manufacturing Company 
Ondo-Machi, Hiroshima Prefecture 
J ) "Report on the Japanese Fish Net Industry," Department of Justice, 
January 18, 1943. 
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