. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 44 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Volo 11, No. 5 I cannot answer at present, for the answer depends upon the performance and atti- tude of Japanese fishermen and of Japanese Government officials connected with fisheries. "Present restrictions on Japanese fishing operations are connected with the behavior of Japanese fishermen before World War II. This behavior caused the. TYPICAL SMALL JAPANESE FISHING BOAT USED FOR SET-NET FISHING IN COASTAL WATERS. people, particularly the fishermen, of other nations to distrust Japanese fish- ermen and
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 44 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Volo 11, No. 5 I cannot answer at present, for the answer depends upon the performance and atti- tude of Japanese fishermen and of Japanese Government officials connected with fisheries. "Present restrictions on Japanese fishing operations are connected with the behavior of Japanese fishermen before World War II. This behavior caused the. TYPICAL SMALL JAPANESE FISHING BOAT USED FOR SET-NET FISHING IN COASTAL WATERS. people, particularly the fishermen, of other nations to distrust Japanese fish- ermen and the Japanese Government as being irresponsible and having no consideration for international agreements or the interests of other countries. Such convictions have led these nations to insist that Japanese fishermen be restricted so that they will not be able to endanger the fisheries of importance to these nations, "What have the Japanese fishermen done to deserve this reputation? Let us review the record. Before World War II, Japan conducted Antarctic whaling without regard to regulations designed by the Internationail Whaling Convention to preserve this great international resource and agreed to by all other whaling countries, Japanese whalers indiscriminately killed whales, without regard to size, sex, or number, so that this great resource would have been destroyed economically, except for the fact that World War II interrupted Antarctic whaling. Japan, too, without regard to the interests of United States, Canada, and Russia, abrogated the Inter- national Fur Seal Treaty, which had made possible the restoration of the seal herds of the North Pacific. Japanese boats also conducted clandestine salmon fishing in the Bering Sea, which endangered Alaska salmon runs that had been re- stored and maintained by the United States Government through extensive research and regulation. "Since the Japanese surrender in 1945, Japanese fisheries, to a large extent, have been re
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