Calculating the catch per one net from the yearly amount of the herring catch in Hokkaido, we find that the former is inversely proportional to the number of the nets and that there seems to be shorter periods of 3_??_4 years, 6_??_7 years and 10_??_11 years and longer periods (covering the shrter periods) of more than 30 years in the fluctnation of the yearly catch.