漁船漁業に従事する外国人技能実習生の重みとその特徴

―熟練獲得からみた技能実習生の位置づけ―

抄録

It would be difficult for the Japanese fishing industry of today to continue to exist without foreign laborers.　Many Indonesians work as foreign trainees in fishing boat fishing, and many Chinese in marine product processing.　This is in the background of Japan’s aging fisherman population and lack of new workers as well as the decline of fishing villages among other factors.　However, the issue of relying on them is not sufficiently reflected in fishing industry policy, and there are almost no policy measures which contribute to the continued existence of the fishing industry.

And so in this paper we examined points of view necessary for these fishing industry policies by analyzing their work environment and their position as seen from management bodies, focusing on the field of fishing boat fishing.　The results made it clear that although they are received as unskilled laborers by the system, they do not supplement Japanese labor but instead function as semi-skilled and skilled laborers.　For the continued existence of the Japanese fishing industry, policies to secure a stable foreign workforce while simultaneously securing experts to fulfill the role of leading them are necessary.