In the institutional framework of fishery management in Japan, which can be seen as a Co-Management system, fishermen's agreements are prerequisites for implementation of resource management measures. However, because of uncertainties in the effect of management measures, fishermen's agreements are difficult to obtain. This study applied a decision-making method under...
For more than 1300 years, local resource users have been the principal decision makers of fishery resource management in the Japanese institutional framework. After the 2nd W.W., in order to democratize the fishery industry, dramatic institutional reform was carried out under Allied Occupation, and the Current Fishery Law was enacted...
In the northwestern Pacific area, the fish alternation phenomena amongst sardine, anchovy and chub
mackerel have been observed in the cycle of about fifty years. The sardine biomass has been drastically
increased in 1930s and 1980s. Chub mackerel biomass has in 1970s, and anchovy has in 1960s and 1990s.
It...