In Japan, common fishery rights are granted by prefectural governor only to local fisheries cooperative associations (FCAs). Coastal resources like abalones are utilized by local fishers as members of FCAs. Fishery rights are deemed to be real rights and any person encroaching upon this right is subject to fine. Therefore,...
The Fisheries Research Agency launched the grand design of fishery resource management in Japan in 2009. In the grand design, 16 roles of fishery industry in Japan were categorized into five aspects including: (1) resource and environmental policy, (2) food policy, (3) industrial and economic policy, (4) local and community...
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...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.