The study area is at edge of Janggi peninsular in the east coast of South Korea.
This research puts purposes explain characteristics of a coastal fishing village, for which the formation, development and social character of the fishing village, and i...
The study area is at edge of Janggi peninsular in the east coast of South Korea.
This research puts purposes explain characteristics of a coastal fishing village, for which the formation, development and social character of the fishing village, and its fishing management are accounted.
Data are collected from various sources including interviews, questionnaires, field works and official publications
Major findings;
(1) The fishing village is located on the rocky coastal terraces.
Being coastal mountains near to the coast, and cultivable flat land is not enough but fishing grounds are in the favorable front sea.
(2) At the beginning the land had been used for goverment managed ranch grazing horses until mid of Yi dynasty. Sinse Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, refugees of the war from Yungnam province settled in the terrace and engaged in agriculture and fishery. After that immigrants have been increased, the village spreaded to the coast, densely distributed on flat and narrow costal terraces along shore, fishing became the most important role in the regional. industries. The development as a fishing village reached the peak in 1930's at the time of sardine.
(3) Characteristics of the fishery
1) Fishery of the village are decreasing in housholds and outputs; that are, 57% of total household engaged in fisheries. Of them, 22percent full time, 48-percent part time and 48percent occupy wage workers
2) Small scale fishing management is dominant,
3) Classification of fishermen is not distinguished. How even, stratification between self management and wage workers are discernable.
4) Gathering shell-fish and sea weeds became important role in fishing industry.
5) Age structure of fisherman became older and older.
(4) Social characteristics compared to a agricultural villages are;
1) Age structure of fishery population is decrease in 5 years later than farm village.
2) Age structure fishery is relatively higher rate in 20-30 age group than, farm village
3) Fishing village is relatively higher income and living standard than farm-village
4) Fishing village is relatively less propensity to keep feudalistic or conventional idea than farm village
5) Relatively matrimony area is more narrow
In conclusion characteristics of the fishing village are defined by the type or the functional nature of fishery. Coastal fishery is the most prevailing in the region.
Consequently this region can be classified into the coastal fishing village.
This coastal fishery in the village still remains relatively at low stage of the development in commercial fishery.
Less development of small scale-self mangement is due mainly to five factors.