TY  - JOUR
AU  - Akimichi, Tomoya
AU  - Ruddle, Kenneth
AU  - Hakubutsukan, Kokuritsu Minzokugaku
PY  - 1984
DA  - 1984//
TI  - Historical development of territorial rights and fishery regulations in Okinawan inshore waters
JO  - Senri ethnological studies
SP  - 37
EP  - 88
IS  - no. 17
PB  - National Museum of Ethnology
CY  - Suita, Osaka, Japan
KW  - Ryukyuans
KW  - Okinawans
KW  - Topography and geology
KW  - Fauna
KW  - Fishing
KW  - Real property
KW  - Cooperative organization
AB  - This is an historical study of small-scale fisheries in Okinawa's rich and diverse inshore environment. The warm northward flowing Kuroshio Current supports an extensive system of coral reefs off of Okinawa's West Coast, which is home to many fish species. The authors examine the changes over time in ecology, regulations, markets, technology, and sea tenure. Since Japan's annexation of Okinawa in 1879, the fisheries have been tightly regulated and the authors focus on the key regulatory institutions, the Fisheries Co-operative Associations (FCA). On the plus side the localized FCAs permit micro-adjustments to change, on the downside, they preclude any regional fisheries policy, which could regulate the potentially adverse impact of one FCA policy on another.
SN  - 0387-6004
UR  - https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ac07-005
LA  - English
N1  - Tomoya Akimichi and Kenneth Ruddle
ID  - ac07-005
Y1  - 2022-06-26
ER  -