894.628/160: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 21—2:22 a.m.]
159. Department’s 87, July 3, 5 p.m. The Foreign Office states that according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Chichibu Maru is a vessel of the Pacific Ocean Fishing Company which is licensed to fish for salmon with drift nets only along the coast of Kamchatka. No license was given that vessel to fish in Bristol Bay. The vessel left Hakodate, May 7, for the Gulf of Anadyr but could not operate owing to drifting ice and turned back from Kamchatka before reaching the Gulf of Anadyr. On July 4 it reported that it had abandoned fishing for the season. It is now operating as a transport ship for the other fishing vessels of the company.