6. Naigai Fishing Wet manufacturing Company 
» Tsu, Mie Prefecture 
7. Ohno Fish Net Manufacturing Company 
Tomida, Mie Prefecture 
8. Ami ta Shoten Net Manufactaring Company 
Sasajima, Nagoya 
The last three companies may not have had their own factories hut con¬ 
tracted with other companies to manufacture for them. Fish nets were 
also manufactured in the city of Kanagawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. In 
addition to those manufactured in factories some nets, although in what 
quantities it is not known, were made in the small-scale "cottage" 
industries characteristic of Japan. It is possible that this production 
may have accounted for a considerable proportion of the netting used 
in the coastal fisheries. 
Materials used in Japanese net manufacture included cotton, linen, 
silk, ramie, Manila hemp and hemp. The trap or pound nets were of the 
heavy materials whereas the finer nets such as gill nets were made of 
cotton or linen or a mixture of these two fibers. 
Hepair of Fishing Posts 
The Nationwide Factory Guide of Japan, a translation of parts 
of Zenkoku Ko.jo Tsuran published in 1939, lists more than 600 firms which 
were at that time engaged in shipbuilding and ship repairs. Of these 
the ones listed in Table 1 were designated as building and/or repairing 
fishing vessels. Numerous other firms undoubtedly also built and re¬ 
paired fishing vessels although their main work was on other types of 
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