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Show Jap Fishing Japan's interest in fishing was a natural development in a land of many Islands, surrounded by fish-teeming fish-teeming waters. The people of the islands have fished along their shores from time immemorial. Large-scale and distant operations, however, have been of relatively recent re-cent growth. In the days of Japan's self-imposed isolation, fishermen were forbidden to leave coastal waters. wa-ters. It is only within the last half century or so that the government has encouraged remote and deep sea fishing, through subsidies and other efforts to expand and mod-rnize mod-rnize the industry. |