The Limits of Fishery Cooperatives? Community Development and Rural Depopulation in Hokkaido, Japan

Gene Barret and Tadashi Okudaira
Additional contact information
Gene Barret: Saint Mary's Universty, Halfa Canada
Tadashi Okudaira: Hoido Unirty d Education, Hakodate, Japan

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1995, vol. 16, issue 2, 201-232

Abstract: This paper explores the interrelationships between rural out-migration, long-term resource decline and cooperative organization in the case of one fishing community in Hokkaido, Japan. Contrary to the experience of many other Japanese fishing communities, the three cooperatives in the community under study have not been able to develop a coherent response to crisis and decline. A combination of fishing group protectionism and organizational rigidity has limited the ability of fishing cooperatives to respond in a consensual, collective fashion to the needs of the community. It is argued that the single stakeholder nature of the cooperative and the entrenchment of inequitable resource allocation around contemporary developments in seaweed mariculture, have generated intracommunity divisions. These difficulties present obstacles to a community-focused reconstruction strategy both within and outside the fishery.

Date: 1995
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X95162003 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:16:y:1995:i:2:p:201-232

DOI: 10.1177/0143831X95162003

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic and Industrial Democracy from Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().