Excerpt from Oceanographic Conditions and the Black Tuna Fishery: A Translation In 1905 the Shiranuka Fishing Guild made a trial Of long-line fishing for nezumizame and caught one tunao In the same year one Taumi, basing his operations at akkeshi-tbkotan, fished a.niigata-type drift net Off Daikoku - jima and made good catches of tuna and nezumizameo In 1906 at Kushiro one Ikeda began fishing on June 20 and caught one large tuna Degrees He was joined by a number Of others until the boats fishing totaled 17. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.