The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-14
FISHERIES TO PAY
JAPS INDEMNITY
Japan Increases Fisheries Values
$50, 100000 Annually By
NewaPeace Treaty.
Nation Maintains Fishing School
Attended by Hundreds of
Young Men.
BY w. w. Jermane.


Washington, Sept. 14.-By 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 valu- |
able than those of several other nations,
they take first rank over those of all |
nations in the actual number of people |
Der of people dependent upon them, in
the quantity Of products taken annually
from the sea, in the relative Importance
of fishery products in the domestic
economy, in the extent to which all
kinds of water products are used, in
the extent to which the best methods
of foreign countries have been studied
and adapted for home use, and in the
zeal with which the imperial govern
ment supports and encourages the in
dustry. .....-
All these facts become important in
the light Of the recent treaty of peace
between Japan and Russia. The orig
mouth by the Japanese plenipotentiaries
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, it is
said, will, in the course Of fifteen years,
give to japan considerably more than
the $6OO,OOO,000 indemnity which Rus
STA refused to pay as the cost to Japan
of the late war.
In connection with the cession to
Japan of one-half of the island of Sag
halien, the treaty includes Japanese
rights to the Bay Of Tartary. This part
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
Bering sea. This, in addition to enorm-
Gus financial returns, will secure place
for Jap fishing vessels to land to mend
nets, pack the catch, ETC., privileges
hitherto denied them. .'.
4 Three Million Fishermen.
| The number of fishers. in Japan pan is
100000, as compared with 2l5,00O IN
the United States. Or, stating it in
another way, one-sixteenth. OF the peo-
pie Of Japan are directly interested IN
fisheries, as compared with one five hun,
dredth of the people Of the United
States. The annual value OF the hsh-
| cries output of Japan is about 0,OC0,-
900, which the treaty provisions above
referred to are expected to double IN
one year. If this increase were to re-
main stationary for 6fteen years, japan
of it, but the inevitable increase that
will come year after year, it is believed,
will carry the figure safely above the
5000 900, 900 point. r.,
Japan is today the only rival whi!ch
the United States has in the artificial
propagation Of salmon Years ago the
depletion Of the streams had ruined the
Japanese scientist came to this country
to study salmon culture. Today Jap,
anese salmon culture is again great
J industry. -..
. Japan the Goldfish Market.
Japan is the headquarters Of the gold
fish industry of the world, and many
thousands of people make living by
| growing these fish for market, There
one town, and one Of them was estab
, lished 40 years ago. In. the artificial
; production of the pearl oyster Japan
| also takes the lead Of the world. a
small spherical piece of mother Of pear
, is inserted between the oyster and Its
r shell. Each year 100000 oysters are
treated in this way and then returned
turbed for four years. Japan leads
the world also in the seaweed industry
The United States annual crop of ma
rine vegetables is valued at only $40,
900, while the same crop IN Japar
brings 100000. Some of the sea
weeds are used for seasoning meats
some are converted into glue, some into
identical algae abound on both coasts
Of this country, but not a piece of any
} Of them is now used. Sixty Thousand
terrapin are annually propagated arti
ficial1y on one farm in Japan.
Japs Great Oyster Growers.
The United States can learn mucl
from Japan s oyster cultivation. 4
hundred years before Americas indie
9 pendence the Japanese inaugurated tn
q policy of Individual ownership of oyste
: beds, which is the most essential facto
/ in successful cultivation. In Chesa
< peake bay, near this city, the vita
f principles of oyster culture are entire
d " ignored, and efforts to apply then
j have been resisted at times by force o
v arms.
,. It is predicted by those who are com
petent to pass Judgment on such PROV
when Japan will lead the world as
/ fishing nation, and when the Unite
d States, as we'll as other nations. will b
If compelled tc adopt Japanese customs
N they desire to continue to be factors
t. this industry.
The imperial fishing school at Toki
4 is the best in the world, and one of tn
- Things OIL WHICH CHe COUNTY, Is SSpCS
n ally proud. There are three depar
4 ments of study, each embracing cours
7, of three years. The faculty is CAREFUL
/ selected and many hundreds of youn
men attend
The japanese peace commissions
seem to have known what they wei
about, it will thus be seen, when the
had put into the recent treaty the pr
I vision that Japan should extend h
n fishing grounds and thus be in positio
: to offer million more of her crowdee
population means Of profitable hvel
of hood. AS to the money that the coul
~ try will receive, thru the fishing conce
Il. siors, of course it will be almost entir
10 ly the property Of individuals, while
=; ~ war indemnity would have gone to tt
y. government as such. But this diffe
n ence will not be important. since Il
- Japanese people will be directly tt
b oo gamers and their prosperity correspon
III ingly increased.
tv MRS. w. E. aU1NBY rs DEAD.
to Detroit, Mich. Sept. 14.-Mrs. William
~ Ouinby. wife of the editor-in-chief of the Detr
,! 81 Free Press died early today. Mrs Quinby w
H. or L. tod II. -