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.
l fishing • Practice • Power • World War II • Lottery • Processing and selling • Folk religion • Oyster culture • ‘Unsellable’ fish • Disaster • Festival management • Satoumi • Sixth industry • Multilateral function • Restoration of eelgrass beds • Public participation • Blast fishing • March 2011 • Map of fishing areas • Reconstruction • Utilising local fish • Festival • Anthropology of power • Ritual power • Yaeyama Archipelago • Tsunami • Japan • Demography • Leadership • Small activity • Aquaculture • Invisibilisation of difference • Fishing community • Fishing regulation • Folk event • Sanriku • Fisheries • Low value fish • Women fishery entrepreneurship group