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As a major science, oceanography is young, and to most nations a relatively remote business of water-temperature graphs or current lines on a chart. But last week Japanese fishing vessels, trailing long, baited lines off the Canary Islands, hauling dragnets along banks off Kamchatka, were providing a dramatic demonstration...
Japan has always depended on the sea; 80% of the protein in the Japanese diet comes from seafood. Before World War II it was the leading fishing nation. But after the war the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Canada, Red China, Korea and Australia excluded Japanese fishermen from many of their traditional...
In the early 1950s, Japan's Board of Fisheries began an elaborate campaign to find new fishing grounds. Systematically, its scientists collected data on water temperatures, current flows, plankton and weather conditions all over the world's oceans, including the North and South Atlantic and Antarctic waters. Its...
Currents for Tuna. Main target was tuna, a surface fish that is usually found far from land and therefore is not claimed as the property of any nation. Japanese scientists found that the different species of tuna inhabit different ocean currents. So the bureau's ships started at known...
Nine new tuna grounds have been found so far, including one in the Atlantic west of the Canary Islands. Japanese fishermen that work that remote area figure they will be away from home for at least six months at a time. Since the ocean currents often shift (carrying the tuna...