Journal of Regional Fisheries
Online ISSN : 2435-712X
Print ISSN : 1342-7857
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The Disadvantage Condition and the Problem of the Policy of the Isolated-island Fisheries
Takafumi KUDO
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2012 Volume 52 Issue 3 Pages 7-28

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the disadvantage condition of the isolatedisland fisheries, and to consider the problem of the fisheries policy for these fisheries. Fisheries are main industry on isolated-islands. But the isolated-island fisheries are inferior to the mainland fisheries in the fundamental condition of the distribution of fisheries products, capital in the fishing village, and labor, and the subsidiary condition of living environment and the local finance. In particular, the distribution of fisheries products is a serious disadvantage to the fishing household in isolated-islands. Therefore, the shipping costs of them are higher than those in mainland. As the result, the isolated-island fisheries are constituted small-scale fishing household, and the decline of the fishery workers and their aging on isolated-islands are faster than on the mainland.

The fisheries policy for the isolated-island fisheries (called “The support grant of reformation for the isolated-island fisheries”) was established since 2005. The main aim of this policy is to support the activity for improving the production in fishing grounds so that the multifunctionality of the isolated-island fisheries were maintained and increased by reformation for the isolated-island fisheries. In order to function as the fisheries policy for less favored areas, this policy should be resolved the disadvantage conditions of the isolated-island fisheries. Especially, the economical assistance for the shipping costs of them is necessary.

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