Fishery landscapes and characteristics according to traditional fishing on inland water

Abstract

Japanese rivers and lakes have rich and distinctive fishing traditions, forming a variety of cultures and landscapes. In this study, to examine the characteristics of the traditional fishing that has remained and the scenery of fishing operations, we studied 30 typical inland water traditional fishing. We collected the information of traditional fishing (water environment location, fishing elements, related traditional culture and scenery of fishing operation) to collect statistics and conducted a database analysis of traditional fishing. The results of this analysis showed that the inheritance of traditional fishing methods has become a significant problem and has a strong positive correlation with related traditional culture. In addition, we categorized the fishing operations into four types according to a cluster analysis.