Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Volume 8 | Edited book | Small-scale Fisheries in Japan

Small-scale Fisheries in Japan

Environmental and Socio-cultural Perspectives
open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Giovanni Bulian - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Yasushi Nakano - University of Tsukuba - email

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 Anthropology of powerFolk religionMap of fishing areasFolk eventAquacultureProcessing and selling‘Unsellable’ fishYaeyama ArchipelagoLow value fishFishing regulationFishing communityLotteryDemographyInvisibilisation of differenceWomen fishery entrepreneurship groupFestival managementFisheriesMarch 2011Blast fishingFestivalPracticeOyster cultureRitual powerSmall activityPublic participationReconstructionRestoration of eelgrass bedsUtilising local fishSanrikuSatoumiPowerLeadershipWorld War IIJapanSixth industryl fishingTsunamiMultilateral functionDisaster

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