2018 年 58 巻 2 号 p. 71-78
The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution morphology and the contribution of aged fishers in the fishing village of Japan. The reason is because fishing villages in Japan has problems with the aging and decreasing population. This paper is to clarify the subject of the following two points in order to achieve the purpose. The first subject is to clarify difficulty of maintaining fishery productivity only by the succession in the household of the fisherman’s house by fishery census of Japan. The second subject is to consider the contribution of aged fishers in the third party succession to the new entry of non-fishermen based on a case study of the fishing village in Mie prefecture.