抄録
Using an online questionnaire, the membership qualifications for Japanese river fishery cooperatives were verified from data collected from 186 male respondents who wished to become cooperative members. Their responses showed that the legal conditions, comprising residential conditions and operating conditions, were greater limiting factors for joining the cooperatives than the cooperative conditions, made up of the payment contribution, paying expense, participation in fish enhancement, participation in fishery patrols, participation in cooperative meetings, and becoming a cooperative official. Between the two legal conditions, the operating conditions were a greater limiting factor than the residential conditions.
