The Pursuit of a Sustainable Coastal Fishery: Comparisons of the Oyster Fishery in Chesapeake Bay and Ariake Sea

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dc.contributor.advisorKennedy, Victor Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorIshikawa, Momokoen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMarine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-06T07:14:45Z
dc.date.available2013-02-06T07:14:45Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractA coastal fishery brings high productivity and economic profit while supporting cultural norms. However, it also causes environmental degradation and political conflicts, which sometimes collapse a fishery. With the current global shift from capture fisheries to aquaculture, appropriate management is required for social and environmental sustainability. To identify essential factors in coastal fishery management, I compared the oyster industries in Chesapeake Bay (USA) and in Ariake Sea (Japan) from political, environmental, and cultural perspectives, by field observations, interviews, and literature research. Despite their different historical backgrounds, the two regions have lost most of the oyster resource due mainly to 1) failure of environmental management, 2) environmental degradation and 3) resistance of the fishing communities to necessary changes in fishing methods and aquaculture. Based on these lessons, I propose that a coastal fishery management plan should include environmental management, development of government-initiated aquaculture, understanding cultural backgrounds, and cooperation among science, industry and politics as essential factors.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13554
dc.subject.pqcontrolledNatural resource managementen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFisheries and aquatic sciencesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAriake Seaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledChesapeake Bayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcoastal aquacultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledestuaryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfisheries managementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledoysteren_US
dc.titleThe Pursuit of a Sustainable Coastal Fishery: Comparisons of the Oyster Fishery in Chesapeake Bay and Ariake Seaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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