2011 Volume 52 Issue 1 Pages 25-46
The purpose of this study is to clear up the conditions for keeping the number of young and middle aged fishermen connected with the structure of fishery in the islands. Generally, many fishing grounds around the islands are abundant in marine resources. But many people have left from the islands because there are few industries and employment chances. So the islands have faced very difficult conditions.
Kamishima Island is very small and a lot of young people left from this island in period of Japanese high economic growth rate. The aged fishermen have increased more and more in this island. But, we can look at many young and middle aged fishermen in Kamishima Island, comparatively.
Because communal control has become loosely, young and middle aged fishermen (returning from the city) can choice various kinds of fisheries under the common fishery rights. But, “IE System” which is most foundational unit in the community has been exists as before. Young and middle fishermen succeed to their self-employed fisheries under “IE System”, that is to say, they could have secured their employment chances by such conditions. Additionally, the fishery grounds around Kamishima Island have abundant in many kinds of marine resources. Marine resources have been conserved by communal management system for a long time. Accordingly, it is for this reason that many young and middle aged fishermen are had been kept comparatively in Kamishima Island.
