Small-scale Fisheries in Japan
Environmental and Socio-cultural Perspectives
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abstract
This collection of essays brings together a range of critical approaches, from varying disciplinary backgrounds, to provide an in-depth overview of the past and current status of small-scale fisheries in Japan. The book attempts to map out some of the major themes relating to community-based fisheries-management systems, environmental sustainability, lottery systems for allocating fishing spots, fishing livelihoods, local knowledge, social vulnerability to environmental hazards, socioeconomic factors affecting small-scale fisheries development, history of destructive fishing practices, women’s entrepreneurship in the seafood sector, traditional leadership systems, religious festivals, and power relationship between local communities and government agencies. The aim of this book is then to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the cultural richness of this fishing sector, which still plays a key role in the broad academic debates focused on the potential small-scale fishery trajectories within the context of global scenarios.
Restoration of eelgrass beds • Demography • March 2011 • Fisheries • Oyster culture • Women fishery entrepreneurship group • Multilateral function • Sanriku • Power • Satoumi • Folk religion • Processing and selling • Invisibilisation of difference • Sixth industry • Ritual power • Festival • Anthropology of power • ‘Unsellable’ fish • Fishing regulation • Japan • Low value fish • Practice • Aquaculture • Fishing community • Lottery • Map of fishing areas • Utilising local fish • Public participation • Small activity • Folk event • World War II • Tsunami • Yaeyama Archipelago • Reconstruction • Leadership • Blast fishing • Disaster • Festival management • l fishing