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to the United Nations. The balance, or 5 percent, was taken by neutral countries and was available to either or both factions. Since that time, however, a number of fisheries formerly under Axis domination have become available to the United Nations.

The leading fishery nation of the world is Japan. Its fishing activities extend over the oceans of the world. Japan alone produces about 22 percent of the world catch of fishery products. Before the war, its fishing craft were at our front door in Alaska, off Mexico and off South America, Japan, at the present time, controls a number of the other important world fisheries. Among these are fisheries in China, Chosen, British Malaya, and the Philippines. In all, Japan is estimated to control about 38 percent of the world's fisheries, or a total of about 14 billion pounds.

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The United States fisheries rank second to those of Japan, but our fisheries, in the main, are carried on close to home. Exceptions are our tuna fleet which operates off Central and South America in the Pacific, our fishery for salmon, halibut, sharks, flounders, and other species off British Columbia. Our New England trawler fleet, which takes a considerable part of its catch on banks off the coasts of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, and our fishery for red snappers and groupers on Campeche Bank off the West Coast of Mexico. Before the war, about 14 percent of our catch was taken off foreign shores.

It is expected that greater use will be made of the known, but yet unexploited, resources of the northern waters of the Atlantic and Pacific in the post-war period. The fishing history of our nation indicates that we have fully exploited only a limited number of the most desirable species. Some outstanding examples of fisheries that could be more fully developed are the practically untouched Alaskan resources other than salmon, herring, and halibut, the trawl fishery off Washington and Oregon, the Pacific Coast anchovy fishery, New England's off-shore trawl fishery, and the menhaden fishery of the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico. By wise use of our available and potential fisheries, the United States could produce at least as much fish as Japan.

Other leading fishery nations are Russia, China, England, and Norway.

Ninety-eight percent of the world's fisheries products are taken in the Northern Hemisphere. Most of the world's population is found in this hemisphere and its fisheries have been more fully exploited. It has been reported, however, that there are extensive untouched fishery resources off the coasts of South America. This apparently is true also of other areas in the Southern Hemisphere.

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The fisheries of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are almost equally productive. former produces about 48 percent of the 37-billion pound world total, and the latter about 47 percent. Five percent of the catch is taken in the Indian Ocean. The North Pacific accounts for 47 percent of the world production and the North Atlantic for 46 percent. The larger portion of the catch in the Northern Hemisphere is caught north of the Tropic of Cancer in the Temperate Zone.

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The following tables contain data on the quantity and value of fishery products taken in the various countries and, when available, information on the number of fishermen and fishing craft employed. Data on the fisheries of the various countries have been obtained from consular reports, publications issued by various foreign countries and data collected by Fish and Wildlife Service representatives. In most instances, statistics on the whale and seal fisheries have not been included in the catch figures, and in a number of countries

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the volume of shellfish taken are likewise omitted. Where data are known to be incomplete, this has been indicated in the tables. In a number of instances, it has been necessary to estimate the volume and value of the fishery. Accordingly, the data shown can be considered only approximately correct.

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Table II--Fisheries of the World: Fishermen, Fishing Craft, and Production by Principal Countries

Country

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71,810 4,059,524
3,432,000

98,957

82,368 Fishermen are for 1933.

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Value estimated.

Estimated.

80,835 Quantity does not include

shellfish.

24,000 Quantity estimated.

20,000 Estimated.

41,518 Fishermen & craft estimated. Includes salt-water species only.

29,909

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40,000 967,252
23,201
788,400

68,275 Fishermen & craft estimated. 45.537

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16,264 Fishermen & craft are for 1943. Value estimated.

8,000 Quantity excludes whales &

seals. Value for mfg. products & includes whales & seals.

8,492 Estimated.

26,000 Fishermen estimated.
7,830

11,926 Fishermen are for 1941.

10,904 Craft are for 1937.

10,350 Value estimated.

10,544

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80,002

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Table III--Fisheries of the World: Fishermen, Fishing Craft, and Production by Continents and Countries

Continent and Country

Fishermen Fishing

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North America:

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Canada

1941

63,745

37,708 1,198,865

29,909

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1936

390

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1940

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British Honduras

1940

500

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Costa Rica

1940

1,000

Cuba

1940

15,000

60 Estimated. 1,200

Dominican Republic

1940

1,000

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28 Estimated.
540 Estimated.
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80 Estimated.
12 Estimated.
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Men & craft for Leeward Is. only.

300

12

Estimated.

3,000

240

Estimated.

3,080

207

Trinidad & Tobago (British)

1940

2,870

948

6,000

600

Estimated.

Virgin Islands (British)

1940

200

160

13

(United States)

1940

405

616

49

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1940

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210

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French Guiana

1940

1,792

170

Estimated.

Peru

1940

6,568

2,404

26,097

365

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Surinam (Dutch Guiana,

1940

3.748

200

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16,382

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Table III--Fisheries of the World:

Continent and Country

Year

Quantity

Value

Fishermen, Fishing Craft, and Production by Continents and Countries (Cont'd.) Fishermen Fishing

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1937

1,822

953

30,822

974

Portugal

1940

36,837

13,630

260,588

11,926

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Estimated.

The 1942 production reported at 1 billion lbs.

Fishermen are for 1941. The 1941 production re-
ported at 403.5 million lbs., valued at $21,613,000.
The 1942 production reported at 89,621,000 lbs.,
valued at $4,705,000.

The 1943 production reported at 979 million lbs.,.
valued at $98,230,000. Fishermen & craft estimated.
The 1941 production reported at 249.4 million lbs.,
valued at $17,055,000.

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TOTAL, European countries

11,776,832

396,894

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