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being drifted one end of the net is kept tied to the boat, while the 
other end is attached to a float, with a floating signal and a 
lighted lamp. 
No. 70. Salt Tunny. 
No. 71. Smoked Dried Tunny. 
The flesh is first boiled in water and then dried. It can be kept 
for any length of time without any alteration in its taste. It is 
daily used in Japanese households as a condiment, and is especially 
excellent as a stock for soup. 100 lbs, cost 12-15 yen. 
No. 72. Tunny preserved in Oil. 
BONITO FISHERY. 
No. 73. Thynnus pelamys, C. & V. (Jap. Katsuwo.*) 
No. 74. Auxis tapeinosama, Bleek. (Jap. Soda-Gatsuwo), 
These two fishes, especially the first, are of prime importance 
in the fisheries of Japan; and the amount of their catch directly 
affects the monetary condition of the fishing villages. They are 
both migratory fishes. Coming in the spring in large shoals along 
with the Kuwro-Shiwo from the southern seas, they pass the summer 
about submarine rocks near the coast, and go back to the south in 
the autumn; but of the details of their routes, their habits, and 
the time and place of their spawning, nothing accurate is known, 
Large specimens often measure about one foot and five or six 
inches in length and weigh about twelve and a half pounds. The 
bonito as well as the sdda feeds on smaller fishes ; but they have a 
very fastidious appetite, so that dead fish can not be used for bait, 
The sdda comes nearer the coast than does the bonito. 
No. 75. Map showing Distribution of the Bonito and its Allies. 
APPARATUS FOR BONITO FISHING. 
Both nets and lines are used; but angling with bamboo rods is 
the chief means of fishing, and it has attained a high degree of 
perfection. The bonito being found chiefly near hidden rocks and 
in rapid currents, nets can not be used to advantage. 
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* Changed into Gatsuwo when compounded with a prefix. 
