Abstract
Resource management has recently been considered to be important in policy of Japanese coastral fishery. However, resource management should be done through fishing ground management by fishermen themselves.
The aim of this paper is to examine the traditional fishing ground management in the offing in a Japanese fishing village. In many research works on fishing villages, fishing ground ownership has been operationally separated from its management. However, this approach can not explain sufficiently traditional fishing ground management, I therefore stand a point of view that both ownership and management should be analyzed simultaneously. Under this managemant, the fishing competition had been controled. After the World War II, however, strain has been caused between this managemant and fishing improved with technological innovation during the modernization of coastral fisherly.
In a case study of this paper, standing such a point of view, I analyze this managemant and the strain. And I pay attention to “priority” and “monopoly” that is arised from fishing at a point or place in the fishing ground. This “priority” and “monopoly” appears on the traditional management. Under this “priority” and “monopoly”, other fishermen refrain from fishing there. Conseqently, I pointed out that whereas the fishing ground is owned by fishing village, the fishing point in the fishing ground is primarily owned by the fisherman while he invests labor in there.
