Jupanese fishery rights in territorial waters off Soviet possessions in the Japan, Okhotsk and Behring Seas, employing 30,000 fishermen fand "yielding ¥.50,000,000 to Y.60,- (000,000 profits annually, would be reduced to one-fifth if the Soviet terms for a modus vivendi were accepted, according to the spokesman of the Foreign Omee today.
The spokesman said that this was based on a rough estimate but that the Soviet proposals for the cancellation of the Hirota-Karakhan Agreement. to exclude the so-called forty [stabilized Io's from the activity. of Japanese fishermen, would deal a serious Joss to Japanese fishermen in view of the great value of those forty fishery lots, The so-called stabilized lots, stipulated in the Hirota-Karakhan Agrecment, the spokesman pointed onl, constituted 73 per cent. of the total number of Japanese-managed fishery Tots, A large concentration"
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