Study of Community Activities as Business

—Issues of Senior Citizen Support Activities by Women’s Group in Fishing Communities—

Abstract

Fishing community has been composed with the background of the co-operation and control of their fishing ground, the collaboration of production and distribution such as the set net which are carried by the fishing community people from ancient times. And also, to maintain those communities feasible, various regional organizations have been making up. Especially, women organizations such as fishery or districts guilds have been practiced the various district activities of fishery management, environmental problems and welfare activities in the background of hard unity in fishing community. However, subjects such as increasing ineffective function of the society due to the advanced aging of women member themselves, increasing of members who are not able to participate in the activities due to the restriction of acting times and are increasing of working time except fishery, and increasing the concentration of burden for fixed person because most of them are working out of fishing.

In these conditions, the movement of establishing the district activities as a business while looking over the way of women activities has been occurring so far. In this paper, senior citizen support activities in fishing communities where advanced aging is proceeding compared with other districts are discussed. Through those activities, particulars, subjects, and prospects of the studies are examined in this paper as well. Those studies are suggesting the way of new activities such as the activities not only the support of living for advanced age peoples but also the spiritual and economic effect for acting women themselves.