Abstract
Since the first legal provision for fisheries operations in the eight century, the fundamental concept of fisheries management in Japan has been fisheries management by the resource users themselves. This concept has been passed down to even the most recent management system, such as total allowable catches (TACs) which was adopted in Japan in 1997, and the Resource Recovery Plan that was established in 2001. In the history of institutional development, there were two big events: the modernization period (Westernization after the feudal era) in the late 1860s, and the post-WWII period while under U.S. occupation in the late 1940s. The legislative processes of major laws in these two periods are presented in this chapter, which concludes with a summary of the institutional features of Japanese fisheries management.
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Makino, M. (2011). A Brief Institutional History of Japanese Fisheries Management. In: Fisheries Management in Japan. Fish & Fisheries Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1777-0_2
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