2011 Volume 51 Issue 2 Pages 1-20
The people’s livelihood in Taiji-cho has depended on the distant ocean fishing as the Antarctic Ocean Whaling, the Tuna Longline Fishing for long time. But these fishing, especially, the Antarctic Ocean Whaling were stopped by “Moratorium on Commercial Whaling”. And the catch of the tuna by Longline Fishing have become decreasing, too. So their livelihood faced to the difficult situation, and many young aged villagers left from Taiji-cho. As a result, the old aged fishermen have increased more and more in this fishing village.
But, now, we can look at young and middle aged fishermen in Taiji-cho, because some young and middle aged fishermen have returned in this fishing village. They could get their own job opportunities in there. There are several kinds of job opportunities in Taiji-cho; the Set-Net Fisheries Cooperative Organization based community, the Dolphin Drive Fishing, the Peal Cultural Cooperative Organization, etc. They could get the average income per a Japanese worker by these job opportunities.
In this article, we study on how to consist of connecting of their fishing and other job in a year, and we would like to obvious on the conditions for keeping the number of young and middle aged fishermen in the fishing village for returning immigrants.