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The Characteristics and Recognition on Fisheries Management Organization in Japan :Analysis of Fishery Census (1988-2008)
2012 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 79-96
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2012 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 79-96
The purpose of this study is to show the characteristics and the status quo of the Fisheries Management Organization （FMO） in Japan, based on analysis of fishery census （1988-2008）, and also to consider the changing trend of scholar’s recognition on it.
First, most of the preceding studies on the FMO have not proposed the new discussion point since 1990. The question is that they have not intended to understand the FMO deeply. Through the review of the preceding discussion on FMO based on analysis of fishery census, it was revealed that it is mainly because scholar’s recognition on the FMO has been captured by a slogan （“the spread of the resource management fishery in the coastal waters”） of Japanese fisheries policy in 1980’s, and the analytical viewpoint was still fixed in it.
Secondly, the main characteristics of the FMO are the follows:
（a） Its organization structure is based on Fisheries Cooperative Association （FCA）.
（b） There is a trend that organizing FMO for sedentary species of fish （shellfish, sea urchin etc.） is easier than the one for nekton （migratory fish）.
The results of statistical analysis implied that the number of FMO is still increasing, and statistical change over 20 years in itself was not obvious, especially internal character. But in actual, the activity and presence of FMO have been changing itself in a local community in order to regenerate regional fishery. This result indicates that it is impossible to understand today’s FMO by only a statistical analysis, and case study based on a fieldwork can be more effective way.
