Research for PECH Committee - Fisheries in Japan
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15-08-2017
The present note was requested by the Committee on Fisheries of the European Parliament for its Delegation to Japan (18-22 September 2017). The note provides a review of the main characteristics and specificities of Japan fisheries sector and related activities. It provides an overview of issues such as the legal and institutional framework, fisheries management, catches, the fishing fleet, fishing industry, trade, employment, the fish market and marine research.
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About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- administrative structures
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- Asia and Oceania
- catch of fish
- economic geography
- ENVIRONMENT
- executive power and public service
- fisheries
- fishery management
- fishing fleet
- fishing industry
- GEOGRAPHY
- Japan
- marine ecosystem
- maritime and inland waterway transport
- maritime law
- natural environment
- POLITICS
- TRANSPORT