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