Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-15
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Washington, Sept. 15.LBy securing
the fisheries rights of the Siberian
coast. Japan really gains all she
sought at first as an indemnity from
Russia.
While Japanese fisheries are less
valuable than those of several other
nations, they take first rank over
those OF all nations in the actual num-
Der of people engaged in them,
in the relative number of people
that are dependent upon them.
in the quantity of products taken an
nually from the sea, in the relative
Importance of fishery products In the
domestic, ECONOMY, in extent to which
all Kinds of water products are used, in
the extent to which the best methods
of foreign countries have been stud
led and adapted for home use, and in
the zeal with which the imperial gov
eminent supports and encourages the
industry.
All these facts become important In
the light of the recent treaty of peace
between Japan and Russia. The orig
inal peace articles submitted at Ports
mouth by the Japanese plenipotentiar-
les were twelve in number. and three
of them, or one fourth, bore
directly or indirectly upon the
fisheries situation. The demand
for Japanese rights to fish in
Russian Pacific waters alone. 1t is
said will in the course OF fifteen years,
y II thny
the $6O0.O0O.00O indemnity which Rus
sia refused to pay as the cost to Japan
of the late war.
In connection with the cession to
Japan of one-half the island Of SAX
halin. the treaty includes Japanese
rights to the Bay of Tartary. This part
of the treaty bears directly upon that
other section of the treaty by which
Russia gives Japan the right to fish
in the Russian territorial waters
of the Sea of Japan, the Sea OF
Okhotsk and Boring Sea. This
in addition to enormous financial re-
turns, will secure place for Jap fish,
ing vessels to land, to mend nets. pack
the catch, ETC., privileges hitherto de-
MED them.
Three Million Fishermen.
The number of fishers In Japan is
3 5000, 900. as compared with 215,00o In
the United States. Or, stating 1t In
another way, one sixteenth of the peo-
pie of Japan are directly interested In
fisheries, as compared with one five
hundredth of the people Of the United
States The annual value of the fish
cries output of Japan is about $3O,O00,-
600, which the treaty provisions above
referred to are expected to double in
one year. If this increase were to re-
main stationary for fifteen years, Jap
an would receive $450,000,00O as the re-
suit of it, but the inevitable Increase
that will come year after year, it is be-
lieved will carry the figure safely
above the $6O0,0O0,0OO point
Japan is today the only rival which
the United States has in the artificial
propagation of salmon Years ago the
depletion of the streams had ruined the
Japanese salmon industry. In 1885 d
to study salmon culture. Today Jap.
anese salmon culture is again a great
industry.
Japan the Goldfish Market.
Japan is the headquarters of the
goldfish industry of the world, and
many thousands of people make a liv-
ing by growing these fish for market.
There are $50 independent breeding
places in one town, and one of them
was established 140 years ago. In the
artificial production of the pearl oys-
ter Japan also takes the lead of the
world. A small spherical piece Of
mother of pearl is inserted between the
oyster and it's she'll Each year 30O,-
900 oysters are treated in this way and
then returned to their beds, where they
remain undisturbed for four years.
Japan leads the world also in the sea-
weed industry. The United States
annual crop of marine vegetables is
valued at only $4,000. white the same
crop in Japan brings s2.0O0,000. Some
of the seaweeds are used for seasoning
meats, some are converted into glue.
some into isinglass, while others are
edible These identical algae abound
on both coasts of this country, but not
piece of any of them is now used
Sixty thousand terrapin are annually
propagated artif1cially on one farm in
Japan.
Japs Great Oyster Growers.
The United States can learn much
from Japan's oyster cultivation. A
hundred years before Americas indie
pendence the Japanese inaugurated the
policy of individual ownership of oys-
ter beds, which is the most essential
factor in successful cultivation. In
Chesapeake bay, near this city, the
vital principles of oyster culture are
entirely ignored, and efforts to apply
them have been resisted at times by
force of arms.
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