Journal of Regional Fisheries
Online ISSN : 2435-712X
Print ISSN : 1342-7857
Symposium
Decision-making and agreement formation of fisheries and resource use in recreational fishing guide
―Folkloric approach which made Osaka Prefecture MISAKI Town KOSIMA the example―
Katsutoshi MASUZAKI
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2006 Volume 46 Issue 3 Pages 79-98

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This paper takes up about the occupation activity of the fishery worker who pursues a handline fishing and recreational fishing guide as a side job in coast ocean space. The various aspects of decision-making and agreement in the scene of a fisheries and resource use are mainly examined there. The example taken up here is a thing about the fishing activities of the fishery company who resides in KOSIMA, MISAKI Town, Osaka Prefecture.

The recreational fishing guide in KOSIMA has the antique continuity started in the end of TAISHO Period. It is started as part of TANNOWA amusement grounds development of the NANKAI railroad, and the recreational fishing guide of not only KOSIMA but this area has a local spread.

A monthly fish catch according to fish stock of present-day recreational fishing guide and the handline fishing which is common about a fishing method is measured. If it does so, it is common in the target fish stock in many portions about the fishing season. On the other hand, if an annual fish catch is seen, the rates of occupying to each of the whole fish catch differ greatly about the fish stock fished in common in both. On the occasion of selection of the object to fish, decision-making based on a different strategy is made in the fishery worker.

If related with fishery use, the rule of customary priority use exists tacitly irrespective of a fishing boat and a recreational fishing ship. Moreover, by the fishing boat and recreational fishing ship, the custom which gives priority to operation of a fishing boat is accepted. Furthermore, when a trouble arose between a fishing boat and a recreational fishing ship while the occupation form which pursues recreational fishing guide and a fishing as a side job occupies most, the structure where the trouble was avoided by agreement by mutual comprehension nature was seen. This mutual comprehension nature is symbolized by the words “each other.” The historical factor to which above-mentioned KOSIMA’s recreational fishing guide has here, and the social factor in connection with it may be acting.

In the KOSIMA fishermen’s cooperative association, the fish reef which used thinning material for the first time the Osaka prefecture was installed. The folk-customs-knowledge in connection with the fishing which a fishery worker has contributed to agreement and determination of the introduction. Moreover, the same was said of the determination of an installation place.

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