Declaration of public ownership of the sea surface - Kaimenkanyusengen

Japanese: 海面官有宣言 - かいめんかんゆうせんげん

It was in 1875 (Meiji 8) that the Meiji government began to unify the fishing system. In February of that year, miscellaneous taxes were abolished with Dajokan Proclamation No. 23. This was the first step in unifying tax collection, which had previously been divided among different regions, but it also stipulated that for the time being, local governments would be required to collect taxes on any tax that would be a hindrance to business control if not collected. Until then, fishing taxes had been extremely diverse, and as such they were naturally abolished as one type of miscellaneous tax, but at the same time, there were many cases in which fishing production was of a nature that required taxation in order to control business operations.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

明治政府が漁業制度について統一的な再編成に着手したのは1875年(明治8)である。同年2月太政官布告第23号をもって雑税の廃止が行われた。これは従来区々であった収税を統一するための第1の措置であったが，当面税金を徴収しないでは営業取締り上さしつかえるものは，当分地方において改めて収税する規定になっていた。漁業税もそれまで実に多種多様なものであり，当然雑税の一種として廃止されたが，同時に漁業生産は営業取締りの必要上，収税しなければならない性格を持つ場合が多かった。

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