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Fishery management in Japan
Author(s) -
Matsuda Hiroyuki,
Makino Mitsutaku,
Tomiyama Minoru,
Gelcich Stefan,
Castilla Juan Carlos
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
ecological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1440-1703
pISSN - 0912-3814
DOI - 10.1007/s11284-010-0748-5
Subject(s) - fishing , fisheries management , fishery , legislature , government (linguistics) , business , management system , marine fisheries , submarine pipeline , fisheries law , geography , economics , oceanography , operations management , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , geology , biology
There are few legal marine protected areas in Japan rather than fishing‐ban areas. Fishers did not seek legal fishing‐ban areas but they did establish fishing‐ban areas by autonomous bases. We briefly introduce the institutional history and features of Japanese coastal fishery management, including the past decade's major legislative developments. Japan still has a decentralized co‐management system involving fishers and the government, and ca. 98% of Japanese fishers are artisanal. There are several successful cases of coastal fisheries management in Japan. However, offshore industrial fisheries have problems in Japan. We compare coastal fisheries co‐management between Japan and Chile. We finally discuss the possibility of improvement for Japanese fisheries.