Journal of Regional Fisheries
Online ISSN : 2435-712X
Print ISSN : 1342-7857
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The Consideration of the Substratum of the Japanese Aquaculture Industry
Eiji HAMADA
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2015 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 119-144

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The Norwegian aquaculture industry started later than Japanese one, but is now moving ahead of the rest of the world as a top runner. It is necessary to broadly discuss why Japan has fallen behind Norway in aquaculture from various perspectives. Of course, this discussion is undertaken not merely to criticize the Japanese aquaculture industry, but because it is an inescapable task for determining what direction this industry should develop in the future.

In order to approach this task, this consideration focused on the conscious structure, behavioral principles and behavioral pattern of aquaculture industry operators from broader aspects of human and social science, rather than exclusively economics. In other words, it is based on the question that enough inquiry might not have been made into the consciousness and behavioral principles of the aquaculture industry operators and whether they did not sensitively respond to the changing global economic situation.

It is desirable to discuss the substratum of the Japanese aquaculture business by applying Japanese behavioral principles, behavioral patterns as well as characteristics of thinking comparable to those of the Japanese aquaculture industry operators. This will culminate in a discussion of how it should be in the future.

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