Abstract
The aim of this paper is to make clear the relationship between the fishing methods and the structure of fishing village of Goza settlement, Shima area, Mie pref., central Japan.
Goza settlement is located in the western part of Shima peninsula where is very famous for fishing along Pacific coast. Goza has various types of fishing, especially oriented to the fishing by fixed net fishery system to gather sardine managed by one capitalist living in this village. And he has employed a lot of villagers engaged in this system, which has given the empirical structure of this fishing village; the top of this structure is capitalist and bottom of this structure is workers of fishing. On the other hand, there are another small scale fishing methods like gill net fishery, diving fishery, fixed net fishery in small size, pearl culture and so on.
Almost of these fishing methods are managed by each families, and diving fishery is supported by only women. Each method is small scale fishery. The workers engaged in these fishing are consisted of the bottom of structure of this village.
A local capitalist living in this village has handed much money to each community organizations in this village from his income or fishing manage. This system has been traditionally continued from the time of first introducing fixed net fishery system before W.W.II. The money given to each community has been used for the funds to support the various types of activities of each community. This system showed basically the even structure of this village.
