Japanese fishery in the Gulf of Alaska in 1966

“At the end of April about 82 Japanese fishing vessels were operating off Alaska. Of the 11 factory trawlers licensed by the Japanese to fish in the Gulf of Alaska this year, 2 began operations southwest of Kodiak Island in late April. The first trawler which arrived was boarded by a U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries biologist observer as of the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission ( INPEC) program to determine the effects of extensive trawling (primarily for ocean perch) upon Gulf of Alaska stocks of halibut and king crab.”

Source

Commercial Fisheries Review dated June 1966, p. 98