Excerpt from Fishing in the Priamur District of Siberia
Fishing is probably the most important industry in the Russian Far East. It is the only industry in the district which not only attempts to supply the local market but exports to the European Russian and foreign markets.
The fishing industry is entirely under the control of the Russian Government and is a State property, with the exception of a few fishing stations belonging to the city of Nikolaievsk on the Amur, which are run by the municipality of that city, and also a few places on the seacoast and in the rivers, donated to local tribes of aborigines.
In the Maritime, Kamchatka, and Amur Provinces fishing is controlled by the Khabarovsk office of the Department of Domains. Administratively the waters are divided into two classes:(1) Waters allotted exclusively to Russian subjects, and (2) waters open to Japanese fishermen by virtue of the Russo-Japanese Fishing Convention of 1907. The first class comprises rivers and their estuaries, lakes, gulfs, bays, and harbors; the waters opened to foreign fishing comprise chiefly open seacoasts. Up to the present no foreigners other than Japanese have made any attempt to obtain such fishing rights.
Very little is known as yet as to the value of the fishing places, for practically no study has been made of the Priamur waters. The works of Braginoff and Soldatoff, ichthyologists attached to the Khabarovsk office of the Department of Domains, merely pave the way for a more extensive study. Some practical knowledge of the value of certain fishing places exists, undoubtedly, among private fishermen, principally Japanese, but it is not general knowledge. Therefore the Department of Domains has no way of exploiting various fishing stations other than by allotting them to the highest bidder at public sale, and even then being very careful to allot them first for a very short period - from one to three years.
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