Viewpoint on the symposium “common use of common pool resources in closed seas”

Abstract

The fisheries resource management is not only major fisheries political theme, but also one of the most important academic fields in Japan. The main stream of the fisheries resource management study has been researches from resource-biological and fisheries economic aspects so far. However, the fisheries resource management has manifold characteristics including geographical aspect, culture anthropological aspect and so on, adding to previous two aspects. In a consequence, it becomes necessary to understand the comprehensive characteristic of the fisheries resource management as a whole, by integrating these accomplishments. Therefore, this symposium aims to highlight the different aspects from conventional "the resource oriented fisheries management" approach, through defining the fisheries resource management as common use of common pool resources. Then a common theme of decision-making for collective rules of fisheries resource is to be discussed from manifold aspects of fisheries economics, sociology and folklore, including new approaches of institutional economics, knowledge science and geographic information system which are expected to expand the range of research approach on the fisheries resource management.