It is a remarkable fact that the self-managing fishery of fishermen's cooperative federation has occurred here and there in the post-war Japan. This fishery is not the same as the traditional joint fishermen's management, but it is a new management form, which is adopted as a self-protecting means of fishermen against the capitalized fisheries.
This paper attempts to make clear, the production-mode of this fishery in relation to the special environment, and to point out its location and form.
For this purpose, we surveyed the five fishing villages, and attempted to explain each fishing villages monographically, and then to extract the type of its location and form.
Such a fishery shows various changes from place to place, but the common things that are found in it are as follows:
(1) This fishery occurs in the comparatively great scale net fishery. This phenomenon seems natural, because this fishery is a resistance-form against the capitalized fishery.
(2) This fishey, at present time, is found in comparatively isolated fishing villages, because there is no great enterprise in such villages, and the neccessary capital for the great scale fishery must be gathered from all the members of the villages.
(3) The basis of the formation of this fishery is found in the next points.
(a) As the production-means is very meagre, it is impossible to do many-sided management.
(b) Consequently it is difficult to break the economic crisis.
(c) Such a village is apt to show the revolutional adaptation to outer economic pressure.
(4) Generally speaking, in proximity of such a village the certain fish-shoal of high density stays for a long time in a year, so that the great scale net fishery can be economically managed.
(5) The strong-willed cooperative-master, younger generation and small ship-owners play an important role in the formation of this fishery.
(6) The form of the management of this fishery indicates various stages in its intensity, measured by the degree of investigation, and of the division of labor and profit.
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