1975年度秋季大会シンポジウム2

抄録

It is a very serious problem that our maritime circumstances are changing rapidly, especially, regarding to a tendency of possessing of waters by coastal countries and to contaminations of waters according to rapid growth of industrial progress of all over the world. Maritime products as a resource of food are very important for all mankind, especially for Japanese. Fishing ground of Japanese fisheries has been expanding in these years, but it seems to have come to bounds in international competition.
The symposium was intended to discuss three viewpoints including somewhat newer standpoints than ever. The first was on the Japanese fishery itself, either of coastal fishery or of pelagic fishery, with an orthodox technigue in Japanese economic geography up to this time. The second was concerning to the process of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, because Japanese fishery might be considered in global scale. The third was discussed from an understanding in geography, from cultural anthropological standpoint.
The members of the symposium consist of four reporters, four commentators, five chair-men, two organizers and some fifty attendants. In the morning session, three reporters read their papers from 9:00 to 12:00 a.m.. The afternoon session started from 1:00 p.m., and commentators led discussion till 5:00 p.m.. There were interesting arguemends by these participants, but we had not enough time to complete all these discussions, conclusion.
The papers of the reporters are in the following.
(1) Takeichi Yoshiki (Nagasaki Univ.) explained coastal fishery of Japan, showing some samples of isolated islands of western Japan. He described the recent tendency, and pointed out the facts that coastal fishery is not declining so far as it has been said, and some villages are keeping their constant products by the efforts of fishermen.
(2) Naoki Kusuhara (Nagasaki Univ.) spoke about pelagic fishery of Japan, with the connection of landing ports of its products. He handled some fishing ports of the Pacific coast of eastern Japan, and mentioned the condition of capital in fishery.
(3) Kenzo Kawakami (The Foreign Office), who is an expert of international conference of fishery, lectured the history of laws and treaties of fisheries and of the seas. He said that Japanese fishery would be soon influenced by the problem of 200-nautical-mile economic waters which was discussed at Caracas in 1974.
(4) Takeshi Saito (Kagoshia Univ.) compared fish-traps of stone fences, fishponds for marine culturings and salt beds, which stood at estuaries, rivermouths and shallow waters. He tried to combine these three cultural constructions, which are somewhat characteristicelements of Southeast Asia.
Concerning these reports, commentators gave some questions and comments to each reporters, and led some discussions with many debators from the floor: Michihiro Kono (Okayama Univ.) to Yoshiki's report, Akira Osaki (Kokushikan Univ.) to Kusuhara's, Hisashi Tajima (Shizuoka Univ.) to Kawakami's and Hiroshi Oguri (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) to Saito's. There were plenty of remarkable comments, and each discussion, as an individual problem, came to some good results, but it was very difficult to combine all these arguements into the focussed one. It may need another chance to continue such discussions for obtaining some fruitful conclusion about these problems.