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 various critical approaches, to provide an in-depth overview of the past and current status of small-scale fisheries in Japan. Covering different aspects of environmental, economic and cultural dimensions, 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 and nature 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 Map of fishing areas • Multilateral function • Ritual power • Lottery • March 2011 • Fishing regulation • Aquaculture • Folk religion • ‘Unsellable’ fish • Fisheries • Utilising local fish • Restoration of eelgrass beds • Japan • Anthropology of power • Women fishery entrepreneurship group • Oyster culture • Fishing community • Disaster • Processing and selling • Reconstruction • World War II • Leadership • Power • Invisibilisation of difference • Small activity • l fishing • Sanriku • Satoumi • Low value fish • Practice • Sixth industry • Festival management • Tsunami • Blast fishing • Festival • Yaeyama Archipelago • Public participation • Demography • Folk event

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 | Pubblicato 26 Marzo 2018 | Lingua en

Sottoserie History and Society e-ISSN 2610-9409 ISSN 2610-8984

Copyright © 2018 Giovanni Bulian, Yasushi Nakano. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.