. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 14, No. 11 Table 4 - Prices Paid to Catchers of the Eighth Japanese Tuna-Mother ship Expedition! Species Grade Price Per Poundi/ Remarks Yellowfin and 1 A B e D Cents r I I Albacore round; yelloivfin gutted during latter part of operation Big-eyed tuna and J A B C r I I Gutted Small Yellowfin tuna ,... f A B r \ Round fish Small Big-eyed tuna / A B r I Round fish Wahoo Barracuda, dolphin, and sailfish - r ] L Round fish Gutted Skipjack tuna Sh
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 14, No. 11 Table 4 - Prices Paid to Catchers of the Eighth Japanese Tuna-Mother ship Expedition! Species Grade Price Per Poundi/ Remarks Yellowfin and 1 A B e D Cents r I I Albacore round; yelloivfin gutted during latter part of operation Big-eyed tuna and J A B C r I I Gutted Small Yellowfin tuna ,... f A B r \ Round fish Small Big-eyed tuna / A B r I Round fish Wahoo Barracuda, dolphin, and sailfish - r ] L Round fish Gutted Skipjack tuna Shark J/VALUES CONVERTED AT THE RATE OF 350 YEN PER US$1, AND WEIGHT ON THE BASIS OF POUNDS PER KAN. ceived when fish are delivered directly to Japanese homeland markets. On the oth- er hand, the big fishing companies seek employment for their idle freezershipsbe- tween Antarctic whaling seasons, and there are many smaller long-liners which, lacking land bases at which to obtain fuel and ice, cannot fish the distant trop- ical tuna grounds without the support of a mothership. Opinion among the supervisory personnel on the seventh and eighth expeditions concerning the future of Japanese tuna fishing in southern Pacific waters ranmain- ly along two lines. Men experienced in the prewar floating crab-cannery fishery in northern Pacific waters felt that sim- ilar shipboard canning of tuna could be carried on successfully and that it would result in a more efficient utilization of ^H "^iw "'-T" z '^WW\ '"II^PSBF both fish and cargo space than the present ^Br ' "«^Lfe^^^wa^i'i!!f""^^^fei^ *J freezing operations. There is little de- ^^^ â «'Sh*.^l^^rji^ litea. ?^SH . mand for canned fish in Japan, however, so the practicability of such a develop- ment would hinge upon the condition of the export market. Another school of thought held that the solution to the problem lay in building 300- or 400-ton long-liners with greater cruising ran
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