2011 Volume 51 Issue 2 Pages 45-68
This text adds a material supplementation to the operation realities of establishment period about the Deep-sea Skipjack fishery in Kagoshima Prefecture. The following was clarified through the analysis of the diary of the fisherman recorded in 1920’s. In the development of the Skipjack fishery, a technical improvement over the live bite had an indeed big meaning as well as the development of the ship. A new occupational category and the workman who made the procurement of bite a specialty were born along with it, too. Consequently, it is guessed that the change over the above-mentioned fish feed greatly changed the fishery management system and the utility value of the fishing ground in the object region.
