Mayor Objects to Soviet Port Calls

The mayor of the Japanese port city of Shiogama, 195 miles northeast of Tokyo, strongly objected Friday to a government decision allowing Soviet ships to call there.

“As head of this town, I cannot accept the decision to permit Soviet ships to call,” said Mayor Yuzo Utsumi. “In the past there has been too much trouble in other places.”

Japan agreed Thursday at fishery talks in Moscow to allow Soviet port calls, fearing its 1985 fish quotas in Soviet waters would be sharply cut if it did not, according to sources in Tokyo who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In return for port calls at Shiogama, Japanese vessels now can resupply at Nevelsk, on the Soviet island of Sakhalin, off Japan’s Hokkaido island.

Last year, 23 Soviet boats visited Onahama, Japan, 185 miles north of Tokyo, for rest and resupply, Japan’s Fisheries Agency said. Last month, provincial officials said the local government spent $592,885 on security for Soviet crew at Onahama during 1984. They said each time a Soviet boat visited the port, as many as 400 riot police were deployed to control rightist demonstrators who marched through the streets screaming anti-Soviet slogans.