| Summary: | This paper examines the development of Japanese high-seas fishing with a focus on the
North Pacific region. As Japanese fishers expanded activities outside of coastal waters
and into international oceans, fisheries became an important issue of foreign policy.
Japan had to manage its fisheries activities within a changing international legal
framework, analyzed in this paper through regime theory. High-seas fishing in the
North Pacific passed through three resource-regime phases, each consecutively more
restrictive in correlation with increasing concern over resource depletion. The paper also
examines the roles played by American cold war security concerns, changing
technology, and environmental concerns to explain how and why fisheries regimes
transformed. === Arts, Faculty of === History, Department of === Graduate
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