Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

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.

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

Thema codes KNAF • JHMC • RNC • 1FPJ

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-226-0 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-226-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-242-0 | Published March 26, 2018 | Language en

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