Pre-war Japanese Fisheries in Micronesia: Focusing on Bonito and Tuna Fishing in the Northern Mariana Islands

Higuchi, Wakako (March 2007). "Pre-war Japanese Fisheries in Micronesia: Focusing on Bonito and Tuna Fishing in the Northern Mariana Islands". Immigration Studies. 3: 49–68.

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Abstract: As a participant in World War I, Japan took control of the German colonies in Micronesia in 1914, and called them the South Sea Islands - comprising Saipan, Palau, Yap, Chuuk (formerly Truk), Pohnpei (formerly Ponape) and the Marshalls. The Japanese Navy administered the islands until 1922. Later, the civilian-run South Seas Bureau governed the islands as a League of Nations mandate. By the mid-1930s, the navy again became politically and militarily involved in the administration of the islands. As seen in Graph 1 below, the fishing industry in Micronesia increased rapidly throughout the 1930s, becoming one of the major economic achievements in the islands during Japanese rule, along with the sugarcane, copra, and phosphate industries. The main marine product was bonito caught by pole-and-line. This report will review records of the bonito and tuna fisheries in the South Sea Islands during the South Seas Bureau administration. The review is divided into three periods: 1922 -1931, 1931-1941, 1941-1942.

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