Abstract
In Japan there are 243,595 power-driven fishing boats under 20 G.T. (of which 13,827 boats in Mie Frefecture). On Kumano Nada, many of these fishing boats are at work close by the fairway of oceangoing ships. Especially vessels which sail into and out of Ise Bay come into contact with them in the vicinity of Cape Daio. In order to examine their actual conditions, I surveyed 105 fishing boats in 1971 which are registered in Anori, Kamisakinra and Hozaura Fisheries Cooperative Associations, Mie Frefecture. About these boats I reported in this treatise on the equipments (magnetic compass, radio direction finder, echo-sounding machine, loran etc.), speed, horsepower of engines, fishing grounds, licence of skippers, number of crews etc.
