Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 King crab dethroned
- 3 The rise and fall of the California sardine empire
- 4 El Niño and variability in the northeastern Pacific salmon fishery: implications for coping with climate change
- 5 The US Gulf shrimp fishery
- 6 The menhaden fishery: interactions of climate, industry, and society
- 7 Maine lobster industry
- 8 Human responses to weather-induced catastrophes in a west Mexican fishery
- 9 Irruption of sea lamprey in the upper Great Lakes: analogous events to those that may follow climate warming
- 10 North Sea herring fluctuations
- 11 Atlanto-Scandian herring: a case study
- 12 Global warming impacts on living marine resources: Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars as an analogy
- 13 Adjustments of Polish fisheries to changes in the environment
- 14 Climate-dependent fluctuations in the Far Eastern sardine population and their impacts on fisheries and society
- 15 The Peru–Chile eastern Pacific fisheries and climatic oscillation
- 16 Climate change, the Indian Ocean tuna fishery, and empiricism
- 17 Climate variability, climate change, and fisheries: a summary
- Index
14 - Climate-dependent fluctuations in the Far Eastern sardine population and their impacts on fisheries and society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 King crab dethroned
- 3 The rise and fall of the California sardine empire
- 4 El Niño and variability in the northeastern Pacific salmon fishery: implications for coping with climate change
- 5 The US Gulf shrimp fishery
- 6 The menhaden fishery: interactions of climate, industry, and society
- 7 Maine lobster industry
- 8 Human responses to weather-induced catastrophes in a west Mexican fishery
- 9 Irruption of sea lamprey in the upper Great Lakes: analogous events to those that may follow climate warming
- 10 North Sea herring fluctuations
- 11 Atlanto-Scandian herring: a case study
- 12 Global warming impacts on living marine resources: Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars as an analogy
- 13 Adjustments of Polish fisheries to changes in the environment
- 14 Climate-dependent fluctuations in the Far Eastern sardine population and their impacts on fisheries and society
- 15 The Peru–Chile eastern Pacific fisheries and climatic oscillation
- 16 Climate change, the Indian Ocean tuna fishery, and empiricism
- 17 Climate variability, climate change, and fisheries: a summary
- Index
Summary
Historical overview of the Far Eastern sardine fishery
Trends in catch
The Japanese sardine fishery has had a long history since the beginning of the Tokugawa era (1600–1867). There have been six peaks in sardine catches since the seventeenth century; 1633– 60, 1673–1725, 1817–43, 1858–82, 1930–40 (Kikuchi, 1958) and the 1980s. In the Tokugawa era, sardines were caught primarily by coastal beach seines and eight-angle lift nets along the coasts. Changes in the availability and abundance of sardine stocks caused the development as well as collapse of various coastal fishing villages.
Figure 14.1 shows trends in sardine catches in the Northwest Pacific between 1894 and 1988. The sardine catches began to increase in the 1910s and peaked in the 1930s. This major increase in sardine catches resulted from an increase in stock size, caused by an enormous spatial expansion of the range of sardine. When the sardine stock was abundant, its range was broad and it was distributed throughout the Sea of Japan and as far east as 173°W. When it was at a low level, the stock was confined to a small, coastal area along southern Japan. In the years of the most abundant sardine stocks, a large quantity of sardine was caught along the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula and the Coast Range of the USSR, as well as along the Sea of Japan side of Japan.
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- Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries , pp. 325 - 354Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992
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