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Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu and Wilen, James E.
Abstract:: This paper provides a brief description of the two key institutional designs of Japanese coastal fisheries and their role in cooperative fishery management. It is well known that Japanese fishery management regime utilizes fishery cooperatives, called Fishery Cooperative Associations (FCAs), which they are granted territorial user rights (called common fishing...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu
Abstract:: Fishery co-management, where local fishermen form a group to manage the fishery in a collective manner, have recently garnered a considerable amount of interest among fishermen and regulators, both in developed and developing countries. Conceptually it is seen as an alternative to centralized command-and-control regulations, as well as individually privatized...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu and Watanobe, Masamichi
Abstract:: Adverse conditions hit particularly hard on small-scale fisheries and fishermen involved. Recent sharp rise in fuel cost is battering such fisheries already struggling from declining stocks and harvests. The threat of economical sustainability can potentially undermine the entire effort for achieving sustainable fisheries, and for this reason energy saving measures...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Uchida, Emi and Uchida, Hirotsugu
Abstract:: It is often claimed that rural households, especially the poor, rely on natural resources to cope with risks. What is less understood is its extent and whether harvesting natural resources is a strategy to cope with particular types of risks. To investigate this question, this paper utilizes survey data of...
Resource Type:: Other

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