The Archive · 1938

Japan Not to Fish in Alaskan Waters

Tokyo, Mar, 2.

The Japanese Government has [decided not to send an experimental salmon fishing-boat to Alaskan waters this summer as had been planned, according to the Chugai Shogyo, a leading commercial daily, to-day, This action is stated to have been taken in order to demonstrate to the United States that Japan has no intentions of fishing for salmon in Alaskan waters, The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in 1936 worked out a three-year plan to investigate the migration of salmon by sending an experimental g-boat to the Alaskan waters every season,—

Reuter,

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