Kazutaka Ito

Japanese: 伊藤一隆 - いとう・かずたか

Year of death: 1929 (Showa 4)
Year of birth: Ansei 6.3 (1859)
A man of merit in the fisheries industry during the Meiji period. Born in Tokyo. After graduating from Sapporo Agricultural College, he traveled to the United States in 1886 as an official of the Hokkaido Development Commission to investigate the state of North American fisheries. He used this experience to contribute to the improvement and development of Hokkaido's fisheries, including the establishment of the Chitose Salmon Hatchery, experimental operation of purse seine fishing, promotion of cod fishing, and the implementation of fisheries reconnaissance surveys. In 1894, he left the government and was active in the Teikoku Fisheries Company and oil development projects in Echigo. He was the first head of the Fisheries Division of the Hokkaido Prefectural Government and the first chairman of the Hokusui Kyokai. <References> Hokusui Kyokai ed., "Hokusui Kyokai Centennial History," and Ichiryukai ed., "Ito Kazutaka and the People Connected to Him"

(Adachi Yasunori)

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Japanese:

没年：昭和4.1(1929)
生年：安政6.3(1859)
明治時代の水産功労者。東京生まれ。札幌農学校を卒業後,明治19(1886)年,開拓使御用掛として北米水産事情調査のため渡米。その経験をいかし,千歳鮭鱒孵化場の創設,巾着網の試験操業,鱈漁業の奨励,水産予察調査の実施など北海道漁業の改良,発達に貢献した。明治27年官界を去り,帝国水産会社,越後の石油開発事業でも活躍した。道庁初代水産課課長,北水協会初代会頭。<参考文献>北水協会編『北水協会百年史』,一隆会編『伊藤一隆とつながる人々』

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