Nurturing fishery improvement in Japan

50 Pages·2016·5.28 MB·English

by  Aly Stanton

Nurturing fishery
improvement in Japan
Shunji Murakami, Jocelyn Drugan,
Ayumu Katano, Yu-ichiro Meguro
Seafood Summit 2016
Nearly 85% of federally managed fisheries in
Japan are fully exploited to overfished
Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Source: Packard Foundation
Forestry and Fisheries Seafood Metrics Report, 2013
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Fishing communities declining
● Less than 3% of the workforce is under age 25
● Approximately, 800,000 jobs lost since 1960s

● About 70% of fishing cooperatives operate with
financial losses, rely on financial support from
federal government
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Goals for this panel
●Provide high level picture of fishery issues and
need for sustainability improvements in Japan

●Describe perspectives from fishermen and
industry stakeholders

●Identify potential barriers and pathways to more
effective fishery engagement and improvement

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Perspectives on the water
~ Challenges and Opportunities for fishery
improvement projects in Japan ~
Shunji Murakami
Japan Program Director
Overview of
Management structure
● Japan Fishery Agency (JFA)
○ Government to develop policy and management
scheme for all of Japanese fisheries
●Fishery Research Agency (FRA)
○ Scientific body to assess stock status and provide
scientific evidence and advice for JFA
●Federations of Fishery Cooperatives
○ Management body established in each prefecture to
manage fishery cooperatives in its prefecture
●Fishery Cooperatives
○ Maintain exclusive access rights to fish in coastal
areas
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Production Volume and
Market trends
● Total Production Volume ( )
including aquaculture
○ In 2014, approximately production volume of 4.8
million metrics ton which has been in decline trend
● Export volume
○ In 2014, 470,000 MT, which was 15% decline from
previous year
○ Scallops, Salmon (Chum), Amberjack, Tunas,
Mackerel, Skipjack, Sea Cucumber
● Domestic markets
○ Roughly 90% of seafood produced in Japan stay in
domestic market
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Fishery Outreach Map
Rausu flying squid
Aomori P. Bluefin/ J. Amberjack
Wakayama Albacore
O2 Approach
●Offering technical consulting services for
fishery improvements
●Support for third-party certification or/and FIP
●Market connections
●Collaborating with industry leaders and NGOs
●Relationship/trust building with community
●Others approaches…. trying new stuff

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Offshore Long-Line Albacore
Fishery

❏Nachi Katsuura Port
What they care about :
❏Species: Albacore
❖ Market rewards
❏Volume: 9000 mt
❖ Relationships within its
❏Gear type: Offshore long-line
community

❖ 2020 Tokyo Olympics
✓MSC pre assessment done

in 2012 (2 vessels)
✓FIP towards MSC