Studies of fisheries policy towards an integrated coastal zone management: the possibility of establishing boundary delineation of the coastal zone in Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26660184
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural science in management and economy
• Research Institution: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
• Principal Investigator: Endo Aiko 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 准教授 (70721223)
• Research Collaborator: Ishii Akira 八千代エンジニアリング株式会社
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 沿岸域総合管理 / 行政界 / 水産政策 / 漁業政策 / 共同漁業権区域 / トランスバウンダリー問題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In principle, there is no delineation of boundaries of Prefectures in coastal areas in Japan. From the perspective of marine and integrated coastal zone management policies, the following research activities were conducted: 1) reviewed scientific and policy papers on delineation of boundaries of Germany, the Philippines and USA, and their marine and integrated coastal zone management policies; 2) identified transboundary issues caused by absence of boundary delineation of the coastal zone from the perspectives of fisheries, water, and marine policies based on semi-structured interview with Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, Oita and Iwate Prefecture Governments, and visualized the transboundary issues using GIS tools; 3) conducted questionnaire surveys targeting forty-seven Prefecture Governments, and the thirty-three governments out of forty-seven responded to the surveys. Then the result data have been analyzed and statistically using SPSS software and visualized the results by GIS tools.

Free Research Field

水産経済