Japan's Fishing Rights

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 10

Japan's Fishing Rights

Mr. Arita. the Japanese Foreign Minister, in his important speech, .eferied to the fishery question between *puo and Soviet Russia. Fishery in Russia or northern water* is an Important right conceded to Japan in the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed at the conclusion of the Kusso-Japunc*« War of IPO4-5. In ll>2B a new convention under the conditions ot ‘iiif. treaty was concluded for a period >l eight years, after the expiration of which time the pact was to bo ien<*wed Th chief fishery product* vt Saghalien are herrings, salmon, codfish, trout, crabs, whales, aud fur-seala. the average yearly catch reaching as much is* £1,000,000 to £2.000,000 in value, if these varieties the herring conies first in importance. Most of these fishery products are canned In the distributing centres in the Island. The trouble with Russia is occasioned by the fact that the northern part of Saghallen Island is owned by Russia while tlie southern part is owned by Japan. St. Ives It is ltelieved that seven persons were drowned when the St. Ives’ (Cornwall) lifeboat was lost In u terrific northwesterly gale. 4 **>t. Ives,” says S. i*. B. Mats, ‘has dignity, beuur.v. and more than usually honourable history, and the fact that John Wesley visited it no fewer than 27 times showed that he thought it worth converting. Like Newlyn. its industries are evenly divided between painting and fishing. ... It is doubtful whether there is a more popular seaside resort in England. ... It got its name from the Irish Saint la, who came over. . . . ou a miraculous leaf in the fifth century. . . . “A market-place was oulit in I*9o. Perkin Warlieck landed with his wife, the Rose of Scotland. In 1497. accompanied by inO men, aud during the Civil War the town, surprisingly for Cornwall, threw in its lot. . . . with the Roundheads. . . pirate* from as far away as Turkey sought without success to raid It. . . . The situation of St. Ives Is eight miles from Penzance on the west side of St. Ives’ Ray, an owning on the north coast of the county.