Fishing for democracy: Community-based fishery management has been well developed in Japan, thanks to a legal framework in which fishermen could participate

Yamamoto, Tadashi (2000) Fishing for democracy: Community-based fishery management has been well developed in Japan, thanks to a legal framework in which fishermen could participate. Samudra Report (27). pp. 28-32. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

It is often said that the community-based fishery management system (CBFM ) in Japan has been well practised due to the historical development of a fishing right system, which emerged during Japan’s feudal era. This is not always correct. Until August 1945, when Japan was defeated in the World War II, Japanese people served the emperor under the military government. In those days, there was no democracy at all. Thereafter, Japan was occupied by the Allied Forces for seven years, until April 1952. During this period, the policy of the Occupied Forces was to make Japan a real democratic country. Within such a fundamental policy, the contents of Japan’s fishery law was throughly redrafted in order to entitle fishermen to participate in planning the use of fishing areas and fishery resources through a fishery co-ordination committee in the most democratic manner. This gave the fishermen an ideal circumstance to create their own CBFM.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0338
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Japan, Fisheries Management, Community Based Management, Fisheries Resources, Fishing Rights, Licence
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2021 10:41
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 13:13
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1009

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